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The Teaching and Learning Foundation offers complete instructional support programs for in-service teachers and their students
100% of teachers have new assignments at some point in their career. Certainly they do when they first start as a novice teacher, then again, occasionally as an experienced teacher. The Expert Systems for Teachers® is a practical, economical solution in situations where teachers need to be not only 1) technically highly-qualified by passing a general subject-area test, but also 2) prepared with subject-specific instructional and mentoring support to be a highly-effective teacher for a specific course within the subject area. If you are just starting to teach a course for the first time or have taught it for a year or two, these instructional supports will be helpful in getting any teacher “up to speed.”
What’s best for my school, district or me?
Below are listed 3 ``just-in-time`` options to assist with school and district teacher recruitment, development and retention issues. These options address the needs of teachers with new subject assignments, whether novice, experienced, technically qualified or not.
Option 2: INDEPEDENT STUDY COURSES .Empirical evidence of success is provided at University Partners
Option 3: COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS OR DISTRICTS, To address recruitment, development and retention issues, this option includes the first two options: 1) the Expert Systems for Teachers® with its subject-specific instructional support for teachers and their students combined with 2) Subject-specific independent study courses that lead to highly-qualified teacher status. Details posted below.
Expert Systems for Teachers®
This Teaching Point program provides subject-specific instructional support materials and mentoring teacher access for inservice K12 teachers with new assignments that leads to improved student achievement. Included are over 100 core and elective subject-specific instructional support resources in 16 subject areas with daily lesson plans, editable PowerPoint lecture support, complete student activity book or lab manual and editable assessments. Empirical evidence of success is provided at University Partners .
Independent Study Courses
The Foundation supports the Expert Systems for Teachers® subject-specific certification program with over 100 subject-specific courses developed for both public and private school recruitment, development and retention of in-service K-12 teachers. The courses:
- Enable in-service teachers to become better prepared for new assignments
- Award half of the hours toward K12 teacher license renewal upon approval of your school or district
- Provides a path to highly-qualified certification, particularly when unavoidably assigned out-of-field, and
- Helps prepare teachers to be highly-effective.
Empirical evidence of success is provided at University partners.
Combined Subscription Service
A combined subscription service to the entire Expert Systems for Teachers® from Teaching Point series provides support for teachers. This service combines 1) the Teaching Point subject-specific instructional support for teachers (as described nearby) with 2) online courses (approved by schools or districts) that lead to CEU’s or points toward recertification (after passing a post-test exam). Interested school or districts may add online courses (in some cases, where necessary, through their State Department of Education approval process) for use as CEU’s or points toward recertification by submitting their forms of approval to be completed by the Foundation. Simply use the Contact page to send a request.Empirical evidence of success is provided at the University Partners.