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The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) is a non-profit, non-partisan education policy advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1994 by then-North Carolina governor Jim Hunt and Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, the NCTAF focuses its research on improving the teaching profession through recruitment, development, and retention of ...
Teachers who earn at least $40,000 per year are most likely to stay through their fifth year at the same school. [6] Teachers stay longer in schools that have missions in alignment with the teacher's personal mission. [13] One of the most successful strategies used to retain teachers includes mentoring and teacher teaming. [14]
Boston College (through the work of Jack Maguire in 1976) [1] and Northwestern University (through the work of William Ihlanfeldt)[2] began to use research and specific communication strategies to increase enrollment at their schools. The idea of research and using the data to target communication and marketing efforts resulted in positive ...
A Handbook on the Community College in America: Its History, Mission, and Management (Greenwood, 1994) Beach, J. M. and W. Norton Grubb. Gateway to Opportunity: A History of the Community College in the United States (2011) Cohen, Arthur M. and Florence B. Brawer. The American Community College (1st ed. 1982; new edition 2013) Diener, Thomas.
Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap (ISBN 0470432861) is a book by Steven Farr, Chief Knowledge Office at Teach For America, published by Jossey Bass in 2010. The book outlines six principles that Farr believes will help teachers become leaders within the classroom, in particular ...
Teacher policy is education policy that addresses the preparation, recruitment, and retention of teachers. [12] A teacher policy is guided by the same overall vision and essential characteristics as the wider education policy: it should be strategic, holistic, feasible, sustainable, and context-sensitive.
Interns worked on community projects in addition to teaching. One of the Trenton, NJ community programs that continued for years after the program ended, was an annual carnival fundraiser to raise money for the Mott Elementary School library. The director of the Trenton Teacher Corps was Dr. Bernard Schwartz of Trenton State University.
Percentage of trained teachers by region (2000–2017) Teacher education or teacher training refers to programs, policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip (prospective) teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, approaches, methodologies and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom, school, and wider community.