Teacher Training, Tailor-Made

Autor/in	Newman, Katherine
Titel	Teacher Training, Tailor-Made
Quelle	In: Education Next, 9 (2009) 2, S.42-49 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Teacher Interns; Certification; Alternative Teacher Certification; Family Involvement; Masters Programs; Schools of Education; Education Majors; Teacher Education; Public Schools; Higher Education; Partnerships in Education; Catholic Schools; California; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Katholische Schule; Kalifornien; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Family Partnerships for Achievement is not a course typical of most master's programs in education. The course was designed with one overriding goal: to prepare teachers to be effective in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district-based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high-need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of preparation. BTR is one of a new breed of teacher training initiatives that resemble neither traditional nor most alternative certification programs. By rethinking the relationship between training and hiring, these programs have found promising new ways to prepare educators. BTR is implementing a model that emphasizes training teachers on-site in actual classrooms with students and lead teachers, similar to the way medical residents grow into effective doctors by working directly with patients under the guidance of veterans. Instead of following a typical list of course and credit-hour requirements, the organization sponsoring the internship or residency-style program tailors coursework to meet the needs of the particular school or type of school in which the teacher will be employed. This article describes three innovative, highly selective teacher training programs: (1) High Tech High's Teacher Intern Program; (2) Boston Teacher Residency; and (3) Alliance for Catholic Education's (ACE's) Teacher Formation Program at the University of Notre Dame. These programs have rigorous selection processes, practical coursework, and tremendous field-based support--and each has an innovative twist. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10