我刚开始接受老师质量公报和它是一个伟大的除了教育信息菜单:这是专门为教师质量的关键问题,包括研究,涵盖了政治发展,和有一个通知,深刻和清晰的观点。

说,我想让你知道,恕我直言,我认为在2月28日TQ公报财团报告在芝加哥感应(Joyce基金会资助)是基础。

最重要的是,它绝对不是一个“昂贵的感应项目”,“不工作”。It's an underfunded, barebones program that doesn't work. The district only spends about $800 per teacher on its program, while, as you know, effective programs cost between $3,500-$6,000 per year for two years. Chicago Public Schools is trying to overhaul this program and is looking at scaling up more intensive induction models, such as one run by the Chicago New Teacher Center (affiliated with The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz) that serves about 200 teachers here and has shown great results. As they evaluate options, we do hope they take your point about targeting available resources to the high-need schools, and focus on principal readiness to lead good induction programs, as the New Teacher Center does.

此外,总结didsn没有提到的一个财团报告中央发现,即教师的一些做管理高质量的感应在芝加哥通过精品项目像芝加哥新教师中心的疯狂更可能报告满意教学和更有可能说他们两到三倍明年会呆在教室里。高中为例,只有23%的新教师收到弱水平的支持表示,他们计划明年继续在他们的学校教书,相比之下,73%的新人接受高水平的支持。这使得非常点,你该怎么做:感应项目质量是至关重要的,它只是不会少感应或疏忽的高质量程序的元素。总的来说,它强化了需要更大的(尽管仔细)感应项目投资,但你的总结可以让读者认为投资于感应是一种浪费。相反,经验和研究(包括本研究)表明它是一个更好的赌注,使决策者可以。

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