Sentences with phrase «teaching corps by»

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.

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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.

Teach for America has notified its partner districts that it is on track to train a smaller corps of teachers this year, possibly falling short of demand for its teachers by 25 percent.

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

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.

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

The Askwith Forums welcomed notable guests such as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and children's author Eric Carle; and Harvard's newly minted Teach For America corps members were surprised by Bill Gates at a HGSE reception.

We currently are involved in an expansion plan at Teach For America; by 2004, we plan to place corps members in an additional four to six sites across the country.

Greatness by Design: Supporting Outstanding Teaching to Sustain a Golden State (PDF; 4 MB; Updated 17 - Sept - 2012), is a report from the California Educator Excellence Task Force which provides their recommendations on how to strengthen California's teacher and administrative corps.

Because of TFA, KIPP schools are delivering an incredible education to more than 14,000 low - income students of color during this school year alone, and many of these students are being taught directly by current TFA corps members or alumni.

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.

These vary by region and by position, but in most cases they call for corps members to pass subject - area tests before teaching and to take ongoing coursework during the school year.

Kids taught by Teach for America corps members show growth among the top quartile of Indiana students, and 90 percent of TNTP's teachers are rated by supervisors to be as or more effective than other first - year teachers.

Previous to this, she was selected by Teach for America to join the NYC Corps of 2002, where she taught 6th grade for two years, initiated a number of programs for at - risk youth, served as the TFA School Leader at Community Intermediate School 232, and was the Sue Lehman regional finalist in the NYC corps.

The schools are run by two former Teach for America corps members.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

It is estimated by some sources that 72 % of TFA corps members leave the teaching profession within five years.

Once school districts, who have historically called on Teach for America, decide not to renew their contracts, funds earmarked by TFA for recruiting and training future corps members, are decreased.

144 TFA believes that, in order to address the complex challenges faced by the communities where corps members teach, their teachers must represent «a range of perspectives and experiences.»

TFA officials say that their corps members also have access to online support and in - person coaching by mentors and that while many corps members stop teaching after two years, two - thirds of TFA alumni are involved in education in some way.

¹ The study also found that pre-K through second students taught by corps members outperformed their peers in reading by the equivalent of an additional 1.3 months of learning.

In compliance with strict requirements set forth by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, TFA corps members teach their first year under a commission - issued intern credential.

The three schools, which primarily serve low - income students and students of color, saw their teaching corps disproportionately decimated by a round of budget - driven layoffs last year, causing their education efforts to fall below the state constitutional guarantee that all students will receive a basic education consistent with prevailing statewide standards.

A 2015 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that Teach For America corps members who had an average of 1.7 years of teaching experience in elementary grades were as effective as other teachers in the same schools, who averaged nearly 14 years of experience.

The below post is by Benjamin Pacini, a second - year Teach for America corps member teaching in Baltimore, Maryland.

Manual Arts High School students with disabilities jumped 71 points on the Academic Performance Index in a year where the special education department was staffed primarily by Teach For America - Los Angeles corps members and alums.

New York City, which has the nation's largest public school system, wants to hire 1,000 black, Latino and Asian male teachers by 2017 to create a teaching corps that more closely matches the student body.

Thanks to GPSN funding, Teach For America (TFA) recruited and trained 130 first - year corps members for 2016, including 40 who were hired by L.A. Unified schools.

According to a Mathematica study, corps members who teach pre-K through second grade boosted student reading scores by an amount equal to 1.3 months of additional learning time compared to their fellow teachers.

Reading the great blog posts by new corps members give me a real insight into what they are, and are not, being taught at institute.

People who think that Teach for America is not the best model for improving the country's teacher corps:» d) Are ageists that consider young teachers incompetent by definition and ignoring an extremely effective method for getting smarter people into the schools

The existing staff is made up of first - and second - year teachers, and is filled out by Teach For America corps members.