Teacher Grants
GRANTS TO HELP TEACHERS WITH NEW ASSIGNMENTS
State Legislatures and private foundations fund teacher enrollments in the Highly-Effective Teacher
Grant Program. Individuals, Private Foundations, Corporations and State Legislatures are
encouraged to provide tuition grants for Expert Systems for Teachers Series ® courses that provide
teachers with subject-specific instructional support materials and subject-specific mentoring teacher
access through the Teaching and Learning Foundation.
Who should enroll to take these online courses?
- Teachers assigned to a subject “out-of-field” and need to be “Highly Qualified” in the subject.
- Teachers with a collegiate major or minor in a general subject area and are “technically qualified” to teach the subject who have not taught the specific subject previously.
- Teachers of the subject that are interested in ways to improve their understanding of or delivery of the subject.
Email us at info@thetlf.org if you want, or need, instructional and mentoring teacher support for specific classroom assignments.
How will I benefit?
The over 100 courses available include complete, sequential day-to-day maps that will assist in your classroom teaching with editable instructional support materials and subject-specific mentoring teacher access. Additionally, these ``how to teach this specific subject`` courses are designed for use with any textbook you have been assigned.
- If you are ``out-of-field`` and need to take a Subject Area Exam (SAE) to be highly-qualified, continuing education hours toward license renewal are awarded to you upon passing the SAE; additionally, half the hours toward license renewal are awarded upon passing the end-of-course content mastery test.
- If you are ``Highly Qualified`` in the broad subject-area, but the subject-specific course content you are assigned to teach is new to you, half the hours toward license renewal are awarded upon passing the end-of-course content mastery test (without the need to take the SAE).
WHAT WILL I LEARN
- The scope and sequence of the subject material.
- The content and pedagogy to successfully deliver the material to your students.
- How to engage your students in the subject on a daily basis.
WHAT ARE THE COURSE FORMATS AND REQUIREMENTS?
There are over 100 subject-specific courses, asynchronous, independent study through a school
year. The course content is designed to save the teacher hundreds of hours of classroom prep time
as the instructional support materials serve as a guide through the school year in the new subject
assignment. There is a subject-specific pre-test and post-test for each online course. The pre-test
does not count toward the grade as it only establishes a baseline of content knowledge. To pass the
online course the post-test must be passed with a score of 70% or better.