Sentences with phrase «teaching corps»

Founder and former CEO of Teach For America, Wendy Kopp, on what sparked the idea for a national teaching corps while she was at Princeton, the early challenges the organization faced, and the impact TFA has had since on both students and alumni.

We also took a step back and asked what we think is the most important question: could redesigned tenure actually help grow the size and power of an elite teaching corps that reaches far more children with high - progress learning?

I have long hoped TFA would do more to teach corps members how to teach their specific content areas, as opposed to general teaching practices.

Founder and CEO of Teach For America, Wendy Kopp, on what sparked the idea for a national teaching corps while she was at Princeton, the early challenges the organization faced, and the impact TFA has had since on both students and alumni.

The report's call for integrating science and engineering practices into the curriculum represents «quite a challenge» to the current U.S. teaching corps, says Frances Eberle, head of the National Science Teachers Association.

Content: A shopping destination for women, She Finds is a perfect fit for America's female - dominated teaching corps.

But in their zeal to support views on how best to augment the professional teaching corps, the authors have failed to...

In Finland, the smallest of the countries, and with perhaps the most visitors trying to find out why it does so well, the answer seems to be highly selective teachers colleges that turn out an elite and admired teaching corps.

Johnson believes that such an approach — with its emphasis on investing in teachers» careers — is the answer to a stable and successful teaching corps.

Possible projects could include funding an elite remote teaching corps and helping to support districts» transitions to new models.

Teach for America, an elite if controversial two - year teaching corps, says a major goal is to reverse the equitable distribution problem.

In 1998 Ontario was expecting to lose, by 2008, as many as 78,000 teachers through retirement, out of a total teaching corps of 171,500.

The extremely selective program — only about 13 percent of applicants are accepted — is going a long way toward achieving the goal of a highly qualified teaching corps.

High turnover doesn't develop the kind of institutional teaching corps that builds relationships with communities in a deep sort of way.»

A recent NCTQ report set forth ten goals for hiring, developing and compensating an effective teaching corps.

«The research confirms what we've always known: a racially diverse teaching corps positively impacts all students, but especially those students who aren't used to having teachers who look like them,» said Go Sasaki, Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Asian American Educators Association.

When we were founded, less than a quarter of our local teaching corps had ties to California.

Teach For America began in 1989 as founder Wendy Kopp's undergraduate honors thesis, which articulated the possibility of creating a national teaching corps by recruiting recent college graduates.

Knowing that teachers who share the background of their students have potential for profound additional impact, we have prioritized building a more diverse teaching corps.

Could it help to grow the size and power of an elite teaching corps that reaches far more children?

«These fields have typically not been included as part of the science curriculum and are not represented systematically in some of the major national - level documents that identify core concepts for K - 12 science,» it says of the behavioral sciences, while explaining that computer sciences «has a history and a teaching corps that is generally distinct from those of the sciences.»

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

If the teaching corps looked much different — say, if the teachers in urban elementary schools were mostly African - American and Hispanic males — the costs of the «combat pay» solution would be lower.

Ms. Day became a teacher in Oakland through a program aimed at making the teaching corps more representative of the student body and the community.

For 23 years, Teach For America has been recruiting high - achieving recent college graduates to its teaching corps in an effort to reduce educational inequity in the United States.

We are our piloting this new initiative with a handful of regions who are looking to explore how the culture that these regional teams create with their staff, as well as with their teaching corps, impacts the efficacy that they are trying to achieve.

TFA strives to ensure diversity across our staff and teaching corps.

residency with TFA, now works with the organization's regional staff to model the leadership they expect from their teaching corps, with the ultimate goal of making a bigger impact on students.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach For America reflects on 20 years of leading this national teaching corps and talks about how it has changed American (and global) education.

My findings also suggest, however, that enhanced choice and competition could help to remedy this situation and thereby bolster the skills of the nation's teaching corps.

So whether or not educators are thinking explicitly about whether they are engaged in a recognized profession, we should be and we should try to raise consciousness about a teaching corps that is highly professionalized.

According to a survey administered by WEAC and the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators, 3,318 educators chose retirement rather than return to their K — 12 classrooms, 4.9 percent of the state's teaching corps.

With the Fishers» help, TFA doubled the size of its teaching corps.

The release last month of the second annual report to Congress on the subject was closely followed by a General Accounting Office report criticizing the Education Department for its lack of guidance to states in determining who in their teaching corps is highly qualified.

This was a big deal here: ten jobs, five percent of the teaching corps.

Those inclined to dismiss IMPACT as simply an incentive - laden, market - based approach to improving our teaching corps might be disappointed.

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.

The number of black public school teachers in nine cities — including the country's three largest school districts — dropped between 2002 and 2012, raising questions about whether those school systems are doing enough to maintain a diverse teaching corps, according to a new report to be released Wednesday.

«The whole effort of the last two decades has been toward minority - teacher recruitment, and it's been an unheralded victory, really,» said Ingersoll, who has been researching the changes in the country's teaching corps of nearly 4 million.

The Durham district has said nearly 1,000 teachers, or about 41 percent of its teaching corps, have requested personal leave May 16, with some schools reporting that nearly all will be absent.

In a few years, it would be possible to see whether our teaching corps and our schools have improved dramatically.

Jefferson County, Ky., had 107 vacancies in November, for example, more than 1.5 percent of the teaching corps in the state's largest district, which includes Louisville, and still had 50 remaining empty spots as of this week.

Citing the model of several countries where students regularly score high on standardized tests, Mr. Duncan said that they pull their teaching corps from the top tenth to top third of college graduates.

In both regions, Emily more than doubled the size of the teaching corps, staff and funding base and pioneered new initiatives in teacher professional development, community and state engagement and alumni innovation.

Teach For America has three components to its approach: to enlist diverse individuals to become teachers in low - income communities and life - long advocates, to train members of its teaching corps to be effective leaders in the classroom and to mobilize as many individuals as possible to strengthen the movement for educational equity.