New Teacher Project Brings Holistic Style to Urban Districts

Autor/in	Honawar, Vaishali
Titel	New Teacher Project Brings Holistic Style to Urban Districts
Quelle	In: Education Week, 27 (2007) 1, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Teacher Recruitment; Rural Schools; Public School Teachers; Holistic Approach; School Districts; Teacher Effectiveness; Career Change; Midlife Transitions; Federal Legislation; Alternative Teacher Certification; Teaching (Occupation); Urban Schools; Arkansas; Louisiana; Maryland; Texas; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerrekrutierung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Holistischer Ansatz; School district; Schulbezirk; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Midlife-Krise; Bundesrecht; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt
Abstract	Historically, it has been tough to get teachers for urban districts, but this is not the case in Baltimore, Maryland, anymore. Since 2002, the New Teacher Project has been finding at least 10 applicants for each teaching job it fills for the once hard-to-staff Baltimore district. Armed with unorthodox recruitment strategies, the group targets midcareer professionals who are looking for a career change and are willing to consider teaching. The Baltimore City Teaching Residency, as the program is known, has been so successful that the city now hires almost one-fifth of its new public school teachers through it. Experts attribute the organization's success to its holistic approach. Besides recruiting and training, it helps districts streamline and update antiquated hiring practices that, the project's officials say, keep new teachers away. It also offers certification programs in content areas in three states: Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The project has also partnered on a multidistrict basis with Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia to provide teachers for both urban and rural schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10