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Tutoring
program revised: Venable hopes to decrease summer school numbers
March 31, 2004 - A revamped tutoring program at Venable Elementary
School might help cut summer school attendance by half, according
to the school’s principal. The program, which was started by
University of Virginia assistant professor Ellie Wilson and Venable
Principal Malcolm Jarrell, was restructured this year to provide more
concrete data on the progress of students in the program.
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New
Teachers Get Helping Hand
Feb. 14, 2004 - New teachers in the Charlottesville and Albemarle
school systems gathered at a reception Friday to share stories about
their first year of teaching and get input from University of Virginia
professors. The reception, held at UVa Provost Gene Block’s
home on the Lawn, was sponsored by Teachers for a New Era, a five-year
grant program designed to improve the way the university prepares
its teachers for graduation. The program also helps UVa forge relationships
with the area’s school systems.
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Local
school leaders offer front-line perspective
It was teachers learning about education from teachers. Two local
school superintendents shared visions of their schools with U.Va.
faculty and administrators Nov. 18 in the Dome Room of the Rotunda.
Kevin C. Castner, Albemarle County Schools superintendent, and Ronald
W. Hutchinson, Charlottesville City Schools superintendent, described
initiatives in their schools as part of the Teachers for a New Era
program, a partnership that links the College of Arts & Sciences,
the Curry School of Education and local educators in an effort to
improve teacher education.
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Local
Schools Topic at Curry
The future of local school systems was emphasized Tuesday at
a joint presentation by the superintendents of Charlottesville and
Albemarle County schools.The talk given to Curry School of Education
students in the Rotunda Dome Room by Kevin C. Castner of the county
and Ron Hutchinson of the city was intended to give the University
of Virginia students a feel for the changing landscape of education
in the systems.Both superintendents stressed the need to hire and
retain high-quality teachers as well as shift with the changing
needs of technology-savvy students
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Teachers
for a New Era Award
That the University of Virginia has won one of the first four
Teachers for a New Era (TNE) grants presents it with a remarkable
challenge: to produce demonstrably excellent K-12 teachers in the
United States, and to prove their excellence by pointing to measurable
growth and achievement on the part of the children they teach. The
directions they fund point to research findings that the most important
variable relating to how well a child learns in school is the quality
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Message
from the Dean of Arts and Sciences
"There is no more powerful example of the liberal arts graduate
than the future elementary school teacher. No other graduate must
continue to think seriously about so many subjects, so many kinds
of knowledge, so many kinds of intellectual skills. The University
is reconsidering its Arts & Sciences curriculum with the future
school teacher as our standard. We are saying that we will hold
ourselves to the same high standard represented by the most knowledgeable
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College
+ Curry + Local Schools = improved teacher education
For Victor Luftig, director of the University's Teachers for
a New Era program, the reason for involving the College of Arts &
Sciences in teacher education is elementary. "There is no better
exemplar of the virtues of a liberal arts education than a schoolteacher,"
he said. "Take any fourth grade teacher in Virginia: the state
standards say that that teacher has to be able to teach students how
to compute mathematical probability, how to explain early American
systems of 'money, banking, saving and credit,' how to contextualize
the accomplishments of important 20th-century Virginians such as Woodrow
Wilson and Arthur Ashe, how 'to write rhymed, unrhymed and patterned
poetry' and how to use a barometer -- all in one year."
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Revolutionizing
Teacher Education
The University aims to boost interest in teaching among U.Va. students
and to create a two-year residency program for new teachers, including
those in local schools, that will provide teachers with more appropriate
support and increase retention. "The pressures on schools and
teachers are immense, and they’re determined by every segment
of society," said Victor Luftig, an associate professor of English
who is heading Teachers for a New Era, a U.Va. effort funded by the
Carnegie Corporation with the goal of revolutionizing teacher education.
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UVa
to receive $5.7 million for teacher training
The University of Virginia will receive an estimated $5.7 million
in grants during the next five years through an initiative that seeks
an overhaul of how the nation's teachers are trained. The initiative
is seeking to create model teacher-education programs based on evidence
that "the single most important factor in helping children learn
is the quality of the teacher," Fallon said.
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