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Ongoing professional development
Teach For America's regional support network provides ongoing professional development to corps members throughout the two-year commitment to ensure that they succeed as teachers. Each corps member is assigned a regional program director who serves as a source of support, guidance, and feedback during the corps experience.
Read "Growth Model:" Education Week's article describing the ongoing support program directors provide corps members to ensure that they succeed in the classroom.
Ongoing professional development components
Regional Orientation and Tools
The initial regional training is designed to help corps members create student achievement-focused, data-driven classrooms from day one. In-person and online sessions in late summer and early fall focus on how to establish meaningful goals, create long-term plans for the year, and put together detailed plans for the first unit of instruction. Corps members access the "student achievement toolkit," an online collection of strong examples of plans and other resources to maximize corps member effectiveness.
The initial regional training is designed to help corps members create student achievement-focused, data-driven classrooms from day one. In-person and online sessions in late summer and early fall focus on how to establish meaningful goals, create long-term plans for the year, and put together detailed plans for the first unit of instruction. Corps members access the "student achievement toolkit," an online collection of strong examples of plans and other resources to maximize corps member effectiveness.
Hear corps members and staff discuss professional development resources.
