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Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice
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This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in teacher education to focus on diversity, social justice, democratic schooling, and community building. What emerges is an… More >>
Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice
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Teaching Workshops, Online Teachers Teaching
Most new teachers starting out in the classroom are aware that while it is important to raise academic standards of today’s youth in classroom all across America, it is the professional experience and support that they need especially in their first year of managing a classroom.
The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative is a resourceful community of teachers which was designed by and for America’s teachers. It continues to remain a strong force supporting teachers’ efforts in the classroom through professional development workshops and distance learning and by sharing important and relevant information through email updates.
In addition, its community also shares concerns on classroom management issues and includes valuable tips and insights on both classroom management and lesson plans.
Teacher Workshops offer classroom teachers a free chance to become involved in high-quality professional teaching development designed to provide the classroom support, technical assistance, and lesson plan help needed to promote professional growth and academic success.
Teaching Resources include
- summer workshops in selected cities all across the US.
- previous session materials offered online in various subject areas ranging from foreign languages, to literacy to Math and sciences.
Participants in the summer workshops for teachers are usually teachers from around the country who share instructional strategies and knowledge in each content area and for each grade level. Every summer workshop consists of outstanding teachers who are sent by their respective districts and who have accomplished high academic success with his or her students.
You might also be able to receive teacher-to-teacher credit for participating in such online teacher teaching workshops and summer workshops either on the state level or district level. You should check your state to see requirements.
The Training Corps supports prospective participants through regional workshops,mentoring programs, distance learning presentations, web casts and follow-up visits.
By signing up for future updates, you are ensuring professional development and growth important for all teachers, new or seasoned.
Online teacher workshops are in the process of being designed and will be offered shortly.
Have you heard of this initiative program? Have you participated in one? It would be wonderful to have a sounding board of experiences. This is in fact, how teachers can network with other teachers.
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Vocational Education – Right Choice for Your Future
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is also called Vocational training and Career and Technical Education (CTE)). It gets learners ready for careers based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic and those related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation; hence the term, in which the learner participates.
Oftentimes, it is called technical education, since the learner directly develops expertise in a particular group of techniques or technology. Vocation and career are usually used interchangeably. Vocational education may be compared to education in a typically broader scientific field. This may focus on theory and abstract conceptual knowledge, characteristic or tertiary education. Vocational education is usually at the secondary or post-secondary level. It, normally, interacts with the apprenticeship system of skills enhancement.
Till the end of the 20th century, vocational education concentrated on specific trades such as, for instance, an automobile mechanic or welder. Hence, it was related to the activities of lower social classes. As a result, it was associated with a sort of stigma and vocational education got linked to the traditional and conventional apprenticeship routine of learning. But as the labor market got more focused and economies started to stipulate higher levels of skill, governments and businesses started increasingly investing in the future of vocational education.
This is done through publicly funded training organizations and financially supported apprenticeship or trainee schemes for businesses. At the post-secondary level vocational education is normally provided by institutes of technology, or by local community colleges. In the 20th century Vocational education got extremely diversified. It now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries.
Online Education
There are several terms for online education. A few of them are: virtual education, online education, distance education, Internet education, web-based education, and education via computer-mediated communication. Essentially, online education is characterized by:
- The separation of teachers and learners that differentiates it from one on one education
- The impact of an educational organization that differentiates it from self-study and private tutoring
- The use of a computer networks to provide or dispense educational content
- The offer of two-way communication through a computer network so that students may profit from communication with each other, teachers, and staff
E-learning
E-learning is classified as interactive learning. In this type of learning the content is made available online and gives automatic feedback to a students learning activities. Online communication with real people might or might not be included. However, the aim of e-learning is normally more on the learning content than on communication between tutors and students.
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