Tag: teacher prep

‘Collegiate’ Hubs for Teachers-in-Training Coming to Delaware Campuses

Educator Support and Development

July 21st, 2021

Delaware continues to grapple with two historic challenges when it comes to its teacher workforce. First, there are simply not enough teachers to keep pace with projected student growth. And second, the teachers that are in the classrooms and educator prep programs do not look like the students they serve. Teacher diversity, or the lack...

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“I’m Proof That it Works.” Talking Teacher Residencies with Tameka Wingo

Educator Support and Development

June 2nd, 2021

It took a lot of soul searching for Tameka Wingo to make the decision to change careers. But the former marketing professional knew that her true calling was teaching. So Wingo enrolled in the RELAY Graduate School of Delaware’s alternate route certification program, which provided her an immersive teacher residency at Thomas Edison Charter...

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Teacher Residencies Get a Legislative Push

Educator Support and Development

May 10th, 2021

Teacher residencies continue to build major momentum in Delaware. Teacher residencies—a teacher preparation model where a district or school partners with a university to provide coursework and real-life teaching experience to pre-service teachers—now have an official bill in Legislative Hall. The bill looks to more heavily...

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Why Teacher Residencies Are Becoming the Next Big Thing in Teacher Prep

Partnerships, Policy and Practice

January 27th, 2021

  Just as doctors-in-training spend intensive, immersive time training as a hospital resident; some of our future teachers are trading in shorter stints in schools for a full year inside a classroom, serving as co-teachers alongside veteran educators while receiving a paid stipend. While institutions like Wilmington University and...

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