New Teacher Center: Silicon Valley

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New Teacher Center Silicon Valley
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• A caring, competent, and qualified teacher for
  every child is the most important ingredient in
  education reform and, we believe, the most
  frequently overlooked.

From the Report of the National Commission on
Teaching Americas Future, What Matters Most
Teaching for Americans Future, c1996.
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• Our society can no longer accept the hit-or-miss
  hiring, sink-or-swim induction, trial-and-error
  teaching, and take-it-or-leave-it professional
  development it has tolerated in the past. The
  time has come to put teachers and teaching at the
  top of the nations education reform agenda.

From the Report of the National Commission on
Teaching Americas Future, What Matters Most
Teaching for Americans Future, c1996.
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Santa Clara County 1998-1999
Classroom Teacher Credential And Experience
Report Number of Teachers 12, 543 University
and District Interns 186 Emergency
Credentials 1,169 Waiver 463 First
Year 1,242 Second Year 1,148
California Department of Education, Educational
Demographics Unit, 7/29/99
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Influence of Teacher Qualifications on Student
Achievement
Class Size 8
Teacher Qualification 43 (licensing examination
scores, education experience)
Home and Family Factors 49 (parent education,
income, language, background, race, and location)
Ronald F. Ferguson, Paying for Public Education
New Evidence of How and Why Money Matters,
Harvard Journal on Legislation, 1991
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Californians rated ensuring a well-qualified
teacher in every classroom second only to
keeping schools safe from violence (89 vs. 92).
Doing What Matters Most Investing in Quality
Teaching, National Commission on Teaching and
Americas Future, 1997
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Effects On Students Math Scores In Dallas
(Grades 3-5)
90
Dallas Students Assigned to 3 Very Effective
Teachers in a Row
Dallas Students Assigned to 3 Very Ineffective
Teachers in a Row
76
60
Average Score on Math Assessment 3 years later in
Percentile
Beginning 3rd Grade Score (Percentile)
50
27
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Source Heather Jordan, Robert Mendro, Desh
Woernsingle, Teacher Effects on Longitudinal
Student Achievement, 1997
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Effects of Educational Investments
Size of Increase in Student Achievement for Every
500 Spent on
0.25
0.22
0.18
0.2
0.16
0.15
0.1
0.04
0.05
0
Lowering Pupil/Student Ratio
Increasing Teacher Salaries
Increasing Teacher Experience
Increasing Teacher Education
Source Rob Greenwald, Larry V. Hedges, Richard
D. Laine (1996). The Effect of School Resources
on Student Achievement. Review of Education
Research 66(3), pp 361-396
Doing What Matters Most Investing in Quality
Teaching, National Commission on Teaching and
Americas Future, 1997
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Mission

• To improve student learning by supporting the
  development of an inspired, dedicated, and
  highly-qualified teaching force.

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Philosophy

• Teaching is a career-long, developmental process.
• Teaching is a continuing cycle of teaching,
  assessment, reflection, and re-teaching.
• Professional standards guide the improvement of
  practice.
• Teacher development occurs best in a collegial
  environment.
• A teachers professional growth leads to improved
  student achievement.

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New Teacher Center UCSC
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NTC Silicon Valley
Quality Induction for New Teachers

• Partnerships with School Districts
• Technical Assistance Training
• Regional Symposia Networks

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A Window of Opportunity
Mentor Program
Example School District with 200 FTEs 5 x
200 FTEs 10 FTEs 8,442 x 10 FTEs 84,420
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CaliforniasLearning-to-Teach System
California Standards for the Teaching Profession
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New Teacher Center Silicon Valley