Sentences with phrase «with alternative certification»

With the alternative certification programs in place, NTEC partners with school districts to help them recruit adults committed to the doing what's best for the children and families they serve.

Craig, who spoke on behalf of the Indianapolis NAACP at Wednesday's State Board meeting, says she liked what she heard from McGrew and doesn't have a problem with all alternative certification programs.

I agree with the «grow - your - own» strategy; our network of schools has partnered with alternative certification programs like Relay Graduate School of Education to try to get more of our graduates to look at education as a viable and valuable career.

Many CMOs accomplish more diverse hiring by partnering with alternative certification programs such as Teach for America and the Relay Graduate School of Education.

Texas began experimenting with alternative certification programs in the mid-1980s.

According to the National Center for Education Information (NCEI), 48 states and the District of Columbia currently have AC programs, and approximately 50,000 teachers became certified through alternative routes in 2004 — 05 NCEI estimates about one - third of all new teachers enter the field with alternative certification.

In addition, there is an attempt to work with alternative certification policies currently in place, or being developed at the state level.

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The first in a three - part series exploring alternatives to a lengthy and cumbersome labor certification, this article addresses one highly specialized immigrant visa category — the «Alien With Extraordinary Ability.»

As you review various coach certification alternatives, you'll note that the majority are available only with an online option.

QC 2001 does, however, assign points to states that require at least 12 weeks of practice teaching as part of a preparation program — not necessarily a bad thing, but limiting for states and districts that are experimenting with programs such as Teach for America and alternative pathways to certification.

Nontraditional candidates - namely recent college graduates and career changers who haven't attended a standard teacher - preparation program - often encounter serious roadblocks, even with the state's full endorsement of alternative certification programs that allow -LSB-...]

California, where thousands teachers are either working with emergency licenses or teaching outside their fields of expertise, has set up a network of alternative - certification programs in its drive to train more teachers.

Indeed, QC grants no points to states with alternative - certification programs!

07, with evaluating four existing alternative certification programs in use across the district (and one that might be reinstated).

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

Furthermore, with the proliferation of alternative certification and programs like Teach for America, the practice of hiring teachers without formal degrees in education or classroom experience is fairly well established.

If you have just graduated from a university or are part of an alternative certification program, you most likely will not have a strong relationship with a principal to request a reference.

Far from being the cause of many of the problems associated with our schools, genuine alternative certification programs may prove to be our best hope for putting in our schools trained professionals who can truly make a difference.

The regulations talk about alternative certification as satisfying the qualified teacher provisions if certain things are done: quality pre-service; ongoing work with existing teachers, mentors, or master teachers while in the classroom; and earning certification no more than three years after entering a classroom.

Researchers at HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers also found that compared with 6 % of first - career entrants, a greater proportion (19 %) of the mid-career entrants participated in alternative certification instead of traditional teacher education programs.

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Altogether, 92 percent of those with an alternative teaching certificate received it in one of the 21 states that have such certification in reality as well as in name.

Among African Americans, test - score gains were also larger in the states with genuine alternative certification.

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

In reading, the additional gains in the states with genuine alternative certification were 10.6 points and 3.9 points for the two grade levels, respectively.

Students attending schools in states with genuine alternative certification gained more on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2003 and 2007 than did students in the other states.

It is possible that the disproportionately large gains in test - score performance in the states with genuine alternative certification were due to some other factor, possibly other education reforms those states were introducing at the same time they were widening the door to the teaching profession.

In the three genuine alternative certification states with the largest total populations (California, Texas, and Florida), the index of representation was 0.56, 0.68, and 0.72, respectively, while in the three largest states with a merely symbolic or no alternative certification option (New York, Illinois, and Ohio), the index of representation was 0.38, 0.33, and 0.51, respectively.

When the alternative certification movement began, with the launch of New Jersey's Provisional Teacher Program in 1983, it famously broke the link between traditional teacher training and certification.

Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certification.

The project includes studies of hiring practices, alternative certification programs, and new teachers» attitudes toward careers and experiences with colleagues.

In a news release on the study Alternative Teacher Certification: A State - by - State Analysis 2000, the NCEI reported that, in the past two years alone, 14 states have either passed or introduced legislation to establish alternative programs that prepare and certify individuals with bachelor's degrees (and often advanced degrees) who want to becomAlternative Teacher Certification: A State - by - State Analysis 2000, the NCEI reported that, in the past two years alone, 14 states have either passed or introduced legislation to establish alternative programs that prepare and certify individuals with bachelor's degrees (and often advanced degrees) who want to becomalternative programs that prepare and certify individuals with bachelor's degrees (and often advanced degrees) who want to become teachers.

SESP develops teacher leaders through partnerships with schools and museums, an alternative certification program, a teacher in residence program and the use of video analysis to understand student thinking.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

In conjunction with Battelle for Kids and SAS, the Tennessee Department of Education is developing online instruction in the use of TVAAS, and a new State Board of Education policy has relaxed alternative certification restrictions.

It is important to note that the group of new teachers with which TFA teachers were compared included teachers with other forms of alternative certification along with a number who were not fully certified.

While she is no longer as dismissive of alternative certification programs as she once was, she regards all but a very few - those with the most requirements - with suspicion.

Alternative certification has clearly played a vital role in staffing California's schools with high - quality teachers and in easing the barriers to becoming a teacher.

This proposal addresses chronic issues with alternative routes to teaching: poor induction methods into the profession, difficulty connecting academic certification requirements with real - life classroom challenges, and difficult school placements.

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In addition to her work with Union Elementary, Shannon works as a consulting teacher for homeschooling families and teaches a course with the Vermont NEA for experienced educators seeking teacher licensure via alternative certification.

Although schools of education are in competition with some of the alternative certification programs for students, some of the schools like what they see in the residency model.

Since the «highly qualified» status is now replaced with effectiveness, I predict some leeway in certification requirements and alternative pathways to teaching made easier at the state level.

I'm a supporter of alternative certification for this very reason, so I basically agree with Matt.

In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, have developed alternative certification programs with a math immersion component to recruit otherwise well - qualified candidates who do not have undergraduate majors in math.

It is commonly agreed that the number of alternative certification programs competing with Teach for America is high and becoming higher across the US.

Anyone with a bachelor's degree who has completed an alternative teacher certification program and has passed a background check also could receive a teaching license under the plan.