Ahead of the Class: A Handbook for Preparing New Teachers from New Sources 

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This handbook, based on Wallace’s Pathways to Teaching Careers initiative to recruit and prepare teachers from nontraditional backgrounds, offers a step-by-step guide to designing programs that can enlarge and diversify the pool of teachers for hard-to-staff schools. Such programs train and certify non-teaching school employees, uncertified teachers and returning Peace Corps volunteers and place them in areas of significant need. This guide can help universities and districts to cooperatively find candidates for these programs, develop a curriculum, ensure adequate support for participants and assess costs.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - Duplicating the Success of the Pathways Model Program
• Section 1 - Creating Successful Institutional Partnerships
• Section 2 - Recruiting and Selecting Program Participants
• Section 3 - Building an Innovative Curriculum to Prepare New Teachers
• Section 4 - Providing Support Services for Candidates
• Section 5 - Costs and Budgeting for Success
• Conclusions
• About the Contributors
• About the Authors

Published: February 2001, 55 pages

Author(s): Beatriz Chu Clewell and Ana Maria Villegas w/contributions from Jennifer King Rice, Brian O. Brent, Clemencia Cosentino de Cohen, Tamara Lucas, Stephanie L. Mudge and Nancy S. Sharkey

Publishing Organization: The Wallace Foundation

Document Type: Report

Document Format: PDF

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