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TURNERS FALLS, Mass., Apr 9, 2013 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
“Improving Teacher Effectiveness” will be a thesis of a 8th annual Responsive Classroom Leadership Conference being hold Nov 18-19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Principals and propagandize district leaders comparison face a plea of assisting teachers be some-more effective in their classrooms,” pronounced Lora Hodges, executive executive of Northeast Foundation for Children (NEFC), that grown a research-based Responsive Classroom proceed to facile teaching. “Schools need teachers with a skills to broach glorious educational instruction and a skills to conduct classrooms. Responsive Classroom maestro growth can make certain teachers have all those skills. This discussion opens a doorway to conspicuous improvements in academics and function by a pivotal component of clergyman effectiveness.”
The discussion will yield maestro training for principals, superintendents, district curriculum specialists, teacher-leaders, college professors in clergyman credentials programs–anyone who works with educators to urge instruction, classroom management, and students’ social-emotional competencies.
Jennifer Buffett, boss of a munificent NoVo Foundation, will broach a discussion keynote debate about a common shortcoming to assistance all children strech their full intensity by integrating amicable and romantic training into a educational systems.
“The NoVo Foundation is a absolute disciple for children’s social-emotional learning,” pronounced NEFC’s Hodges. “We’re gratified to acquire Jennifer Buffett to a conference, and we’re unapproachable that NoVo continues to support a efforts to give children and propagandize communities a heart-and-head skills they need to succeed.”
Two full days of sessions, interactive discussions, consultant panels, featured speakers, and networking time will give discussion attendees copiousness of unsentimental strategies to urge clergyman effectiveness. All participants will find sessions that fit their interests, either they’re new to a Responsive Classroom proceed or serve along in their implementation. Conference sessions will be led by NEFC’s maestro staff consultants or by other educational experts. Many sessions will also be upheld by principals and other propagandize leaders actively regulating Responsive Classroom strategies. Topics embody assessing clergyman effectiveness, innovative maestro growth for teachers, and a purpose of care in whole-school reform, as good as specific strategies used in a Responsive Classroom approach.
In one session, Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman of a University of Virginia will plead her investigate commentary from a three-year Responsive Classroom Efficacy Study. In another, Chip Wood, remarkable management on child development, co-founder of NEFC, and author of Yardsticks: Children in a Classroom, Ages 4-14, considers a developmentally suitable proceed to training in this age of standards.
“Participants will hear about investigate and theories,” pronounced Mike Anderson, a comparison Responsive Classroom module developer, “but only as important, they’ll leave with resources and strategies to use as shortly as they get behind to their schools.” At a conference, Anderson, a maestro clergyman and consultant, will share his imagination in educational rendezvous and a Common Core.
Registration for a conference, to be hold Nov 18-19 during a Hyatt-Regency Cambridge, unaware Boston, is now open, with an early bird bonus by Jul 31st.
About Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc. and a Responsive Classroom® approach
Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc. (NEFC), a not-for-profit organization, was determined in 1981 by facile propagandize educators who envisioned a proceed of training that would move together educational and amicable training via a propagandize day. That proceed of teaching, called a Responsive Classroom approach, is now being used in schools opposite a country. It has been famous by a Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning as one of a many effective educational and social-emotional training programs.
Northeast Foundation for Children offers Responsive Classroom on-site consulting services to schools and districts, workshops and institutes for educators in locations around a country, and countless books, videos, and other resources for teachers and administrators.
For some-more information, revisit www.responsiveclassroom.org.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Mar 15, 2013 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
Does your favorite TA get a approval he or she deserves? College students now have a possibility to appreciate a TA (teaching assistant) who has had a biggest impact on their preparation by America’s Top TA foe by CengageBrain.
CengageBrain (www.cengagebrain.com), a premier end for purchasing and renting textbooks, eBooks and training solutions, will take nominations by Apr 3rd during that time students can respect a TA who has had a many durability sense on their educational career. Three winning training assistants will any get one $2,500 grant combined in their name, and a reigning Top TAs will even turn partial of a constituent group that selects a grant recipients. Scholarship criteria will be dynamic during a after date with submit from a Top TAs.
To commission a TA, greatfully revisit CengageBrain’s Facebook page and tell them because your training partner deserves to turn America’s Top TA for 2013. Following a assignment period, voting will afterwards be open to a open to establish that of a tip 10 training assistants will eventually accept CengageBrain’s pretension of America’s Top TA. Winners will be announced during Teacher Appreciation Week, a week of May 6.
“Good TAs set adult contention sessions or investigate groups outward of category to offer additional help,” says Daniel White, Vice President of Student Advocacy during CengageBrain. “They mostly even control several classes wholly on their possess during a semester, and this is on tip of holding classes or conducting investigate themselves. We substantially don’t give them adequate credit. Nominating a training partner for America’s Top TA is a unusual approach to appreciate a overworked TA who takes a time to demeanour out for both their educational success and yours.”
Does your propagandize have a training partner that deserves to take home a pretension of America’s Top TA? Nominate them for America’s Top TA today!
About Cengage Learning and CengageBrainCengage Learning is a heading educational content, program and services association portion a academic, veteran and library markets worldwide. CengageBrain is a premier end for purchasing and renting textbooks, eBooks, eChapters, digital solutions, and investigate tools, charity students convenience, savings, and a broadest choice of formats available. For some-more information, revisit www.cengage.com or www.cengagebrain.com.
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VICTOR, N.Y., Jan. 10, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ – NewPath Learning, LLC, award-winning developer of supplemental credentials products for K-12 education, currently announced a launch of a new online training module featuring ready-to-use interactive, multimedia lessons for Science, Math, Language Arts and Social Studies. The website, www.newpathlearning.com, also includes easy-to-use collection designed for educators to emanate and broach tradition lessons for whole classes or particular students.
“NewPath’s Online Learning Program is a standards-based means for educators to yield truly differentiated instruction that is both engaging, nonetheless economically affordable,” settled Kurt Gelke, NewPath’s president. “The resources supposing are ideal for use on interactive whiteboards for classroom instruction or for particular tyro use on any Mac or Windows-based computer. Additionally, a site can be used with mobile inclination to embody tablets and, in a really nearby future, iPads.”
Gelke combined that a supplemental curriculum poise and comment credentials module is singular in that it provides –
- Ready-to-use multimedia lessons for Middle/High School Science, including Life Science/Biology, Human Body, Earth Science and Physical Science. Also enclosed are endless resources for Grade 1 – 12 Science as good as Math, ELA and Social Studies.
- Easy-to-use collection to emanate tradition lessons regulating NewPath’s content, that of a clergyman or multimedia resources from a Web including YouTube, Flickr, Kahn Academy, etc.
- A classroom government complement to allot a lessons to a category and/or particular students as good as lane and news their swell and results.
- Cloud-based storage enabling educators to save their lessons or share them with their colleagues.
A free, simple chronicle of NewPath’s Online Learning Program provides a ability to occupy collection and templates to rise and broach customized lessons. The subscription also provides singular entrance to NewPath’s endless curriculum apparatus library. Annual reward subscriptions are accessible for as low as $99.95 per clergyman and yield total entrance to NewPath’s finish library of interactive lessons, activities and assessments.
NewPath will be introducing a product during both a arriving FETC Conference from Jan 29th – 31st in Orlando, FL as good as a TCEA Conference in Austin, TX from Feb 6th – 9th.
About NewPath Learning: NewPath Learning, LLC is a heading developer of supplemental credentials products for Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies for Grades K – High School. Founded by Kurt Gelke and George Nassis in 2007, a company’s product line includes a Curriculum Mastery Game Learning System, leader of Learning Magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Award, as good as flip charts, Interactive Whiteboard software, investigate cards, training guides and posters to yield extensive coverage of a stream inhabitant and state standards. The company’s products are supplemented with web-based lessons and collection featured as partial of the exclusive Online Learning Program.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
American College of Education, an accredited online college that provides online master’s grade programs for educators, currently announced a new Master of Arts in Teaching and Transition to Teaching Certificate programs for people with a passion for training who have not had a advantage of grave training in a field.
Professionals seeking a career change to a classroom now have an simply permitted trail to acceptance by American College of Education. These rewarding programs yield extensive training to people new to a training margin who are fervent to share their veteran believe and skills to enthuse students.
“Well-trained teachers have a energy to turn change agents in their classrooms and propagandize districts,” pronounced Sandra J. Doran, President, American College of Education. “We are unapproachable to yield an affordable, permitted opening into a training contention for people who might have always wanted to learn and are seeking a right training and mentorship.”
Both a Master of Arts in Teaching and Transition to Teaching Certificate programs yield a trail to initial clergyman acceptance in Indiana during a facile and delegate levels. Features of these programs include:
Convenient online curriculum that might be finished within a year to 18 months even while working.
Competitive fee between $4,000 and $7,000.
Elementary or Secondary training focus.
10-week tyro training experience.
Students initial pursue initial clergyman licensure in Indiana and afterwards might be means to send acceptance to their home states.* To learn some-more about specific module requirements, revisit a American College of Education website at
http://www.ace.edu .
About American College of Education
The goal of American College of Education is to broach affordable, online grade programs that yield evidence-based calm and applicable practice to urge educators’ knowledge, skills and performance. American College of Education is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of a North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC/NCA).
www.ace.edu
* Professional licensure, certification, and income advantage mandate for educators change from state to state and district to district. American College of Education can't pledge licensure, certification, endorsement, or income benefits. In some states, students might need to prove additional mandate for clergyman licensure over those compulsory in Indiana. It is a students’ shortcoming to know and approve with mandate in a office where they select to teach. In all cases, students are only obliged for last either they are authorised for initial licensure in a state and to endorse a accurate mandate that contingency be confident to be protected in that state before commencement a program.
At this time, this module is not accessible to residents of a following states: AL, AR, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MN, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OR, TN, WA, WV, and WI. This list of states changes over time; greatfully hit studentservices@ace.edu for a many stream information.
Media Contact:American College of Education Media Inquiries214.259.3424mediarelations@ace.edu
Kristin Kelley, Ketchum for American College of Education404.879.9248Kristin.kelley@ketchum.com
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
With some-more than 20 schools in New York City incompetent to giveaway and dozens of schools in New Jersey still sealed in a arise of Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic, a tellurian children’s publishing, preparation and media company, currently announced that it will present one million books to schools and libraries in a hardest-hit areas of a tri-state region. To assistance in a liberation efforts with support for a educators, families and students who have suffered losses, Scholastic is usurpation book extend requests at
www.scholastic.com/bookgrants and will yield new books and resources that will assistance get tens of thousands of students reading and training again, notwithstanding exceedingly severe circumstances. Scholastic is beholden to be operative with a nonprofit Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., to assistance discharge a million books to a schools and libraries that need them a most.
In further to a detriment of books in schools, many teachers have mislaid critical enlightening resources and doctrine skeleton that they have amassed over a years, so Scholastic is also creation accessible a abounding array of free, grade-leveled doctrine skeleton and activities for these educators. Teachers in neighborhoods impacted by a charge will accept an email from Scholastic with a couple to a free, downloadable, ready-to-use materials that can immediately support their classroom instruction and yield eloquent use for their students as they start to reconstruct their classroom resources.
“The educators, relatives and caregivers, who are assisting children in a tough strike communities via a region, are loyal heroes,” pronounced Richard Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO, Scholastic. “All of us during Scholastic are committed to removing these books, doctrine skeleton and other training materials into a influenced communities as shortly as probable in a wish that we can yield support for a immature people as they lapse to schools that need additional resources.”
For educators, relatives and caregivers, Scholastic is also providing giveaway online resources to support children’s amicable and romantic recovery, including:
Tips from a Yale Child Study Center to support families and schools in assisting children cope
Advice for relatives and an talk with a Scholastic consultant on articulate to kids about disasters
A list of books that will assistance adults explain how storms occur in child-friendly terms, as good as books to comfort children pang mishap from a disaster
Age-appropriate coverage of a charge and liberation by a Scholastic News Kid Reporters
To entrance a online resources, greatfully visit
www.scholastic.com/readeveryday/resources.htm .
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – With some-more than 20 schools in New York City incompetent to giveaway and dozens of schools in New Jersey still sealed in a arise of Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic, a tellurian children’s publishing, preparation and media company, currently announced that it will present one million books to schools and libraries in a hardest-hit areas of a tri-state region. To assistance in a liberation efforts with support for a educators, families and students who have suffered losses, Scholastic is usurpation book extend requests during www.scholastic.com/bookgrants and will yield new books and resources that will assistance get tens of thousands of students reading and training again, notwithstanding exceedingly severe circumstances. Scholastic is beholden to be operative with a nonprofit Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., to assistance discharge a million books to a schools and libraries that need them a most.
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In further to a detriment of books in schools, many teachers have mislaid critical enlightening resources and doctrine skeleton that they have amassed over a years, so Scholastic is also creation accessible a abounding array of free, grade-leveled doctrine skeleton and activities for these educators. Teachers in neighborhoods impacted by a charge will accept an email from Scholastic with a couple to a free, downloadable, ready-to-use materials that can immediately support their classroom instruction and yield eloquent use for their students as they start to reconstruct their classroom resources.
“The educators, relatives and caregivers, who are assisting children in a tough strike communities via a region, are loyal heroes,” pronounced Richard Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO, Scholastic. “All of us during Scholastic are committed to removing these books, doctrine skeleton and other training materials into a influenced communities as shortly as probable in a wish that we can yield support for a immature people as they lapse to schools that need additional resources.”
For educators, relatives and caregivers, Scholastic is also providing giveaway online resources to support children’s amicable and romantic recovery, including:
- Tips from a Yale Child Study Center to support families and schools in assisting children cope
- Advice for relatives and an talk with a Scholastic consultant on articulate to kids about disasters
- A list of books that will assistance adults explain how storms occur in child-friendly terms, as good as books to comfort children pang mishap from a disaster
- Age-appropriate coverage of a charge and liberation by a Scholastic News Kid Reporters
To entrance a online resources, greatfully revisit www.scholastic.com/readeveryday/resources.htm.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – With some-more than 20 schools in New York City incompetent to giveaway and dozens of schools in New Jersey still sealed in a arise of Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic, a tellurian children’s publishing, preparation and media company, currently announced that it will present one million books to schools and libraries in a hardest-hit areas of a tri-state region. To assistance in a liberation efforts with support for a educators, families and students who have suffered losses, Scholastic is usurpation book extend requests during www.scholastic.com/bookgrants and will yield new books and resources that will assistance get tens of thousands of students reading and training again, notwithstanding exceedingly severe circumstances. Scholastic is beholden to be operative with a nonprofit Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., to assistance discharge a million books to a schools and libraries that need them a most.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100907/SCHOLASTICLOGO )
In further to a detriment of books in schools, many teachers have mislaid critical enlightening resources and doctrine skeleton that they have amassed over a years, so Scholastic is also creation accessible a abounding array of free, grade-leveled doctrine skeleton and activities for these educators. Teachers in neighborhoods impacted by a charge will accept an email from Scholastic with a couple to a free, downloadable, ready-to-use materials that can immediately support their classroom instruction and yield eloquent use for their students as they start to reconstruct their classroom resources.
“The educators, relatives and caregivers, who are assisting children in a tough strike communities via a region, are loyal heroes,” pronounced Richard Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO, Scholastic. “All of us during Scholastic are committed to removing these books, doctrine skeleton and other training materials into a influenced communities as shortly as probable in a wish that we can yield support for a immature people as they lapse to schools that need additional resources.”
For educators, relatives and caregivers, Scholastic is also providing giveaway online resources to support children’s amicable and romantic recovery, including:
- Tips from a Yale Child Study Center to support families and schools in assisting children cope
- Advice for relatives and an talk with a Scholastic consultant on articulate to kids about disasters
- A list of books that will assistance adults explain how storms occur in child-friendly terms, as good as books to comfort children pang mishap from a disaster
- Age-appropriate coverage of a charge and liberation by a Scholastic News Kid Reporters
To entrance a online resources, greatfully revisit www.scholastic.com/readeveryday/resources.htm.
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Information sessions scheduled during George Fox University’s Portland, Salem and Redmond, Ore., locations; students accept iPad with tuition
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PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — A array of information sessions about George Fox University‘s Master of Arts in Teaching program, designed for those who wish to acquire a teaching degree, are scheduled as a focus deadline for one of a school’s MAT formats approaches.
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As partial of a program, a university reserve all incoming MAT students with Apple’s iPad 2 device, enclosed with tuition.
The focus deadline for enrollment in a university’s open 2013 MAT in Your Community format – a part-time, 16-month module accessible during a university’s Portland, Salem and Redmond, Ore., sites – is Monday, Oct. 1. The same deadline relates to those who are meddlesome in adding an publicity – in possibly reading or English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) – by George Fox’s full-time MAT format in Newberg.
Spring classes in a part-time format start in January. Jan also outlines a start of publicity courses, so those who wish to supplement an publicity need to request this tumble notwithstanding a fact unchanging full-time classes in Newberg don’t start until June.
An information assembly for students meddlesome in holding classes during possibly George Fox’s Portland or Salem centers is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, during a school’s Portland Center nearby Tigard, 12753 S.W. 68th Ave., in Portland.
For those privately meddlesome in attending category in Salem, they have a choice of scheduling particular meetings during a Salem site on Wednesday, Sept. 19. The core is located in a Capitol City Business Center during 4600 25th Ave. N.E., in Salem.
Finally, George Fox’s Redmond site offers particular appointments Friday or Saturday, Sept. 14-15, during Ridgeview High School, located during a intersection of Canal and Elkhorn, in Redmond.
George Fox’s Master of Arts in Teaching module offers initial licensure during all 4 levels of authorisation – early childhood, elementary, center school, and high school. MAT possibilities acquire dual authorizations during adjacent levels and select between early childhood/elementary, elementary/middle propagandize or high school/middle school.
Candidates entering a MAT module are approaching to have grown extent and abyss of calm believe by completing an suitable bachelor’s degree, providing a substructure for veteran preparation courses and margin practice in schools.
For those who wish to specialize, George Fox offers an MAT Plus ESOL grade that combines a core MAT initial permit grade with 11 division credits of instruction in English for Speakers for Other Languages (ESOL), heading to a ESOL Specialist endorsement. Also offering is a MAT Plus Reading Specialist degree, that combines a core MAT grade with 11 division credits of instruction in reading, heading to a Reading Specialist endorsement.
For some-more information, revisit mat.georgefox.edu.
The university’s Master of Arts in Teaching module is one of several connoisseur education degree programs offering during a institution. George Fox also offers a Doctor of Education, a Master of Education, an Educational Specialist degree, a grade in propagandize psychology, and endorsements in ESOL, reading and executive licensure programs.
George Fox University is ranked by Forbes and Kiplinger’s among a tip Christian colleges in a nation and is a Christian university personal by U.S. News World Report as a initial tier informal university and a “Best Value” school. More than 3,500 students attend classes on a university’s campus in Newberg, Ore., and during training centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond, Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor’s degrees in some-more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for operative adults, 5 seminary degrees, and 11 master’s and doctoral degrees.
Media Contact: Beth Molzahn George Fox University, 503-554-2264, bmolzahn@georgefox.edu
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jun 19, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
Weingarten: “It’s by teachers, for teachers, and is a free, easy-to-use source for classroom resources. It will turn any teacher’s go-to online end for a support they need.”
The American Federation of Teachers, with Britain’s TES Connect, currently denounced “Share My Lesson,” that will turn a largest online village for U.S. teachers to combine and share training resources and innovative ideas, with a poignant importance on resources to beam teachers on implementing a new Common Core State Standards. The proclamation about Share My Lesson was done currently during a Global Education Conference during Stanford University.
“Teachers are approaching to do so much, mostly with really small support, and they are parched for a collection they need to urge instruction. The AFT motionless to accept a plea and make a biggest investment ever in a apparatus to urge a training profession,” pronounced AFT President Randi Weingarten. The AFT and TES Connect have committed $10 million to rise and say a site.
“Share My Lesson supports teachers by giving them a place to come together and share their knowledge, skills, doctrine skeleton and effective classroom strategies. It’s by teachers, for teachers, and is an easy-to-use source for classroom resources–and it’s free. It will turn any teacher’s go-to online end for a support they need,” Weingarten said. Any educator, from preschool to college, can register and use a site.
Currently, teachers face countless barriers to removing and pity enlightening resources on a Internet. Often, “free resource” sites have dark costs, hunt functions aren’t specific enough, uploading is unwieldy and there is no one-stop shop. Share My Lesson addresses all of that with a complement that categorizes resources by class level, theme and form of resource, such as a video or handout, and importantly, it’s giveaway to use.
The site will go to teachers by permitting users to upload their possess resources, examination and rate resources on a site, and download anything, all during no charge. Additionally, a user-generated calm will be supplemented by tens of thousands of resources from hundreds of calm partners, including Sesame Street, Oxfam, Green TV and a Encyclopaedia Britannica. When it strictly launches on Jul 28 during a AFT gathering in Detroit, Share My Lesson expects to have some-more than 200,000 resources accessible and 100,000 U.S. teachers registered.
The digital height is a corner try of a AFT and TES Connect, a world’s largest network of teachers with some-more than 2 million clergyman members, that offers some-more than 400,000 resources and logs 2.5 million downloads weekly.
“Teachers are a many critical in-school change on a child’s education. If we give teachers a chance, they will frankly share their best ideas, many moving training methods and many effective lessons but hesitation,” pronounced Louise Rogers, CEO of TSL Education, a primogenitor association of TES Connect. “We know from using TES Connect that when teachers start pity their immeasurable trust and trust with any other, their lessons get some-more creative, improved and some-more effective.”
One poignant underline will engage advice, superintendence and dedicated resources to support a Common Core State Standards, that are a new math and denunciation humanities standards that simulate a trust and skills students need to attain in college and career. Teachers will be implementing a standards this tumble in 46 states and Washington, D.C., and nonetheless many have not perceived a support and assistance they need. By a 2014-15 propagandize year, there will be new assessments aligned with a standards.
“For teachers to assistance students succeed, they need in-school veteran growth as good as a resources of resources and peer-to-peer connectors that will be accessible by Share My Lesson. Teachers are longing collection and support to assistance their students succeed,” Weingarten said.
The need is great, she said, observant that 50 percent of teachers leave a training contention within their initial 5 years since of a miss of support, low preparation bill cuts and other frustrations. This teacher-turnover predicament costs $7.3 billion annually, with different costs to children’s education.
Weingarten pronounced Share My Lesson is a latest in a array of innovative, entrepreneurial approaches that a AFT has been building and ancillary to urge training and learning.
“I trust that this beginning is a singular many critical apparatus a AFT has launched in over a generation,” Weingarten said.
Share My Lesson can be found online at
www.sharemylesson.com .A video introducing Share My Lesson can be found at
www.sharemylesson.com/IntroVideo .
Contact: Marcus Mrowka202-879-4447mmrowka@aft.org
www.aft.org
SOURCE American Federation of Teachers
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Weingarten: “It’s by teachers, for teachers, and is a free, easy-to-use source for classroom resources. It will turn any teacher’s go-to online end for a support they need.”
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The American Federation of Teachers, with Britain‘s TES Connect, currently denounced “Share My Lesson,” that will turn a largest online village for U.S. teachers to combine and share training resources and innovative ideas, with a poignant importance on resources to beam teachers on implementing a new Common Core State Standards. The proclamation about Share My Lesson was done currently during a Global Education Conference during Stanford University.
“Teachers are approaching to do so much, mostly with really small support, and they are parched for a collection they need to urge instruction. The AFT motionless to accept a plea and make a biggest investment ever in a apparatus to urge a training profession,” pronounced AFT President Randi Weingarten. The AFT and TES Connect have committed $10 million to rise and say a site.
“Share My Lesson supports teachers by giving them a place to come together and share their knowledge, skills, doctrine skeleton and effective classroom strategies. It’s by teachers, for teachers, and is an easy-to-use source for classroom resources—and it’s free. It will turn any teacher’s go-to online end for a support they need,” Weingarten said. Any educator, from preschool to college, can register and use a site.
Currently, teachers face countless barriers to removing and pity enlightening resources on a Internet. Often, “free resource” sites have dark costs, hunt functions aren’t specific enough, uploading is unwieldy and there is no one-stop shop. Share My Lesson addresses all of that with a complement that categorizes resources by class level, theme and form of resource, such as a video or handout, and importantly, it’s giveaway to use.
The site will go to teachers by permitting users to upload their possess resources, examination and rate resources on a site, and download anything, all during no charge. Additionally, a user-generated calm will be supplemented by tens of thousands of resources from hundreds of calm partners, including Sesame Street, Oxfam, Green TV and a Encyclopaedia Britannica. When it strictly launches on July 28 during a AFT gathering in Detroit, Share My Lesson expects to have some-more than 200,000 resources accessible and 100,000 U.S. teachers registered.
The digital height is a corner try of a AFT and TES Connect, a world’s largest network of teachers with some-more than 2 million clergyman members, that offers some-more than 400,000 resources and logs 2.5 million downloads weekly.
“Teachers are a many critical in-school change on a child’s education. If we give teachers a chance, they will frankly share their best ideas, many moving training methods and many effective lessons but hesitation,” pronounced Louise Rogers, CEO of TSL Education, a primogenitor association of TES Connect. “We know from using TES Connect that when teachers start pity their immeasurable trust and trust with any other, their lessons get some-more creative, improved and some-more effective.”
One poignant underline will engage advice, superintendence and dedicated resources to support a Common Core State Standards, that are a new math and denunciation humanities standards that simulate a trust and skills students need to attain in college and career. Teachers will be implementing a standards this tumble in 46 states and Washington, D.C., and nonetheless many have not perceived a support and assistance they need. By a 2014-15 propagandize year, there will be new assessments aligned with a standards.
“For teachers to assistance students succeed, they need in-school veteran growth as good as a resources of resources and peer-to-peer connectors that will be accessible by Share My Lesson. Teachers are longing collection and support to assistance their students succeed,” Weingarten said.
The need is great, she said, observant that 50 percent of teachers leave a training contention within their initial 5 years since of a miss of support, low preparation bill cuts and other frustrations. This teacher-turnover predicament costs $7.3 billion annually, with different costs to children’s education.
Weingarten pronounced Share My Lesson is a latest in a array of innovative, entrepreneurial approaches that a AFT has been building and ancillary to urge training and learning.
“I trust that this beginning is a singular many critical apparatus a AFT has launched in over a generation,” Weingarten said.
Share My Lesson can be found online during www.sharemylesson.com.
A video introducing Share My Lesson can be found during www.sharemylesson.com/IntroVideo.
Contact: Marcus Mrowka
202-879-4447
mmrowka@aft.org
www.aft.org
SOURCE American Federation of Teachers
