Professional Development and Mentoring for Charter School Teachers | CharterTeacher.com

Only 40% of public charter school teachers report receiving professional development.  An investment by in your staff will pay off with greater job satisfaction, better performance and increased student achievement.  But providing professional development can be expensive and difficult to fit into already busy schedules.

Purchasing ABCTE professional development for your school opens our entire library of online materials to all your teachers through the end of the school year. Because the cost of developing these materials was offset by a U.S. Department of Education grant, an ABCTE professional development site license can be purchased for $350. This license gives any teacher in your school access to the over 1,200 hours of content, 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the end of the school year.

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ABCTE Teacher Professional Development includes all of the resources below:

ABCTE’s phonics-based reading instruction program is based on the recommendations of the National Reading Panel and is a valuable resource for both new and experienced teachers. The reading program includes:

• 6 reading instruction workshops on CD-ROM
• Lesson plans
• In-class reading activities
• Video demonstrations
• New teacher workbook

Our online Prepare to Teach Workshops provide practical classroom strategies for teachers on a variety of topics:

• The Characteristics of Successful Teachers
• Classroom Management
• Nurturing Parental and Community Support
• Organizing for Instruction
• Pedagogy and Instructional Design
• Assessment
• Statistics
• Using Technology in the Classroom (Spring 2010)
• Drop-out Prevention (Spring 2010)

We also provide online refresher courses to help teachers refresh or gain knowledge in additional subjects.  These online courses each provide more than 300 pages of content listed by topic, and contain detailed lessons, video demonstrations and more. Subjects available include:

• Elementary subjects (K-6)
• Math (6-12)
• English (6-12)
• General Science (6-12)
• Physics (6-12)
• Chemistry (6-12)
• Biology (6-12)

Mentoring

The first year of teaching is one that is filled with great joy and immense challenges. Providing a solid structure of feedback and support throughout a teacher's first year in the classroom is essential. What better way is there to help guide new teachers than with a mentor from their own school or district?

ABCTE’s mentoring program combines the unique Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) developed by the University of Virginia with criteria developed by ABCTE.

The program includes:

• Introduction to ABCTE mentoring
• Mentoring overview webinar
• Online training for your mentor
• 6 observations by your mentor, each followed by customized feedback and suggestions for improvement
• Access to CLASS video library and workbook, modeling best teaching practices
• Mentor guidelines and application

Mentors will help teachers improve teaching practice in the following areas:

• Emotional Support
• Classroom Organization
• Instructional Support
• Student Outcomes
• Professional Abilities
• Incorporating diverse perspectives into the classroom