Sentences with phrase «ongoing professional development opportunities for teachers»

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Teachers who have opportunities for sustained, ongoing professional development that is linked to classroom practices are more likely to see meaningful changes in their practices.

To counteract the effects of staff churn, and to help boost retention rates and improve teacher agency, VCS is now hyper - focused on providing ongoing Professional Development (PD) opportunities for new and existing staff — and they're using DreamBox PD resources, such as MyFlexPD, ™ to help get everyone up to speed fast.

It is crucial that we focus on BOTH pre-service training AND ongoing, job - embedded professional development opportunities for teachers to support them with better serving our students and communities.

The ELP collaborates with local Ministries of Education to strengthen teachers» skills through professional development opportunities; improve the quality of teaching through learner - centered approaches and appropriate resources; and improve strategies and guidelines for ongoing assessment.

The state requires orientation for all teachers new to the local system; ongoing support from a mentor, including regularly scheduled meetings during non-instructional time, co-teaching opportunities, an ongoing professional development, and ongoing formative review of new teacher performance.

Seeing applied professional development as an ongoing process with opportunities for iterative refinements brings teacher learning to a new level and creates a real asset for course design.

Effective professional development programs provide frequent and ongoing opportunities for teachers to write and to examine theory, research, and practice together systematically.

The gold standard for high - quality induction programs is the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project, which eventually grew into the New Teacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedTeacher Project, which eventually grew into the New Teacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedTeacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedteacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedback.66

TAP was launched in 1999 as a comprehensive educator effectiveness model that restructures and revitalizes the teaching profession by providing teachers with powerful opportunities for career advancement, ongoing professional development, a fair evaluation system and performance - based compensation.