Sentences with phrase «professional teaching corps»

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If successful, she'll join the elite corps of her profession as an educator certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

They also urged the creation of a corps of «master» teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

In the afternoons, corps members participate in professional development activities coordinated by a faculty of Teach For America alumni.

The members of this camp praise national standards, a national (or at least statewide) curriculum that gathers the best thinking about how to reach these standards and shares this thinking with the teaching corps, authentic assessments that provide diagnostic information, and professional development (pre-service and in - service) that is seamlessly woven into all of the rest.

The Professional Development Task Force, convened by state schools Superintendent Delaine Eastin, concluded that many students will not be able to measure up to new academic standards if the state doesn't focus more on the quality of the teaching corps.

Broadly speaking, though, the dissatisfaction in the Teach for America corps points to the difficulty of attracting well qualified, ambitious young people to an occupation with limited pay and professional autonomy.

«As you know, this was a high priority for both Gov. Dayton and the Legislature as a strategy to attract highly qualified mid-career professionals to address shortages in high need areas, help close achievement gaps and diversify our teaching corps,» state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius wrote to the board at the time.

300 Teach For America corps members and alumni will converge to build their professional skills and capacity while more deeply connecting to one another, and to their communities.

She began her career as a Teach For America corps member, where she also served as a professional development advisor.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.