Harvard FREE training improve American education quality
postgraduate course in education at Harvard University has just launched a new training program aimed at improving the quality of teachers for the public schools of America.
According to the Washington Post, this is a free program to be worth US $ 18 million support from several anonymous donors wishing to contribute to the development of education in the country.
Mr. James E. Ryan, dean of graduate education at Harvard, said the program was created with three main objectives: improve the quality of teachers, to create a model for other places can learn and facilitate access to Harvard students teaching profession.
Mr Ryan hopes the program, Harvard students can recognize teaching as a profession, after graduation they can teach at the junior high school or high school with math, science, history, English ... or can accumulate more credits to obtain a master's degree in education.
The three-year course with curriculum designed in close, where the Fellows will learn the methods of teaching from leading experts, real-time instructors are also last longer under supervision of the advisers directly. However, after completing the course, the PhD student must commit to teach for 5-7 years.
Expected month 1-2016 will have more than 20 students of final year undergraduate courses at Harvard join this course. Initially, they will learn about the teaching methods and will be the lead consultant who practice in public schools.
The first year of teaching courses, research students are allocated to schools, part-time practice and is responsible for 2-3 classes / day. They will have to work directly with the school counselor, can receive remote support of experts and participate in online classes at Harvard.
The second year, Harvard graduate student back to complete the required certificates. Last year during year 2 and 3 students teach full time, only to participate in workshops and summer courses at Harvard.
The fact that the program could be drafted Harvard's new post is completely different with the "Teach for America" (TFA), a five-week training course and commit to teach for two years.
Although there are 11,000 members of TFA are taught in 35 states across the country, but with limited training time, TFA has been criticized for not giving teachers eligible for American education.
With expected to train up a team of high quality teacher training intensive, Harvard's new program if successful would be an ideal model is to encourage replication of the world.
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