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Ross, Scott Warren; Lignugaris-Kraft, Ben – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2015
This case study examined the implementation of a novel nontraditional teacher preparation program, "Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Preservice Residency Project" (MTSS-PR). The two-year program placed general and special education composite undergraduate majors full time in high-need schools implementing evidence-based systems of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Nontraditional Education, Case Studies
Evans, Brian R. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2014
This article presents an interview with five teachers in an alternative certification program at a university in New York. All of the teachers were from the New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF) program, which is an alternative certification program in New York designed to quickly place teachers in high need schools throughout the city. The…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Diversity (Faculty)
Maloney, Patricia; McKenzie-Thompson, Kenann – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2013
The number of teachers entering the profession through alternative certification and the number of charter schools in the United States have increased over the past twenty years. While there is a great deal of research on the efficacy of different paths to certification on teachers in public schools, there is little research exploring the needs of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public School Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes
Ricci, Leila Ansari; Zetlin, Andrea G. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2013
As the shortage of special education teachers has led to increasing numbers of teacher candidates enrolled in alternative certification programs, there is a need to provide systematic mentoring and coaching. The relationship between support providers and novice teachers enrolled in an alternative certification program in a diverse, urban…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification, Social Support Groups
Peters-Burton, Erin – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2012
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the ways former professional scientists who are learning to become teachers understand the planning and implementation of instructional design 1) while they are in a university program learning to become teachers and 2) during their first year of full-time teaching in a secondary classroom. The study used…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Scientists, Secondary School Teachers, Grounded Theory
Bowe, Anica; Braam, Maureen; Lawrenz, Frances; Kirchhoff, Allison – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2011
Central to the debate regarding the effectiveness of alternative and traditional teacher certification programs is the question of providing high quality teachers for high need schools. The Robert F. Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, supports both alternative and traditional routes to teacher…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Program Effectiveness
Garza, Ruben – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2009
Despite a plethora of studies that describe the characteristics of effective mentors and the qualities of effecting mentoring initiatives, the research does not examine the nature of written feedback provided to beginning alternatively certified teachers. In addition, there is a gap in the literature that identifies the most useful type of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Feedback (Response), Beginning Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification
Myers, Susan D.; McMillan, Sally; Price, Margaret A.; Anderson, Connie Wilson; Fives, Helenrose – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2007
Recruiting Educators through Alternative Licensure (Project REAL) is funded through the Transition to Teaching grant initiative. Project REAL is designed to enable university faculty and classroom teachers to work collaboratively within a professional development school model in order to provide secondary pre-service teachers with a high quality,…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Alternative Teacher Certification
Tissington, Laura D. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2006
National teacher shortages have driven the market for alternative means of teacher certification. This study sought to understand what mentorship means to 27 beginning teachers in a university-district partnership Alternative Certification Program (ACP) in an effort to understand the participants' perceptions. The process included administering…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Phenomenology, Inquiry, Mentors