Show #4
Initial Air Dates:
October 6 at 6:30 pm
October 11 at 7:00 am

Teacher Orientation - Rancocas Valley Regional High School conducts an innovative weeklong new teacher orientation program. This program reduces problems experienced by first year teachers and integrates them into the profession and the schools social system.

Target Teaching - In light of the looming teacher shortage, juniors at Parsippany and Parsippany Hills high schools are being encouraged to enter the teaching profession. The goal is to create a pool of teacher candidates who could consider returning to the community to teach. They attend seminars on classroom pedagogy and are paired with an experienced teacher. This program is funded through a grant from the NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Educ NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Rutgers - The Rutgers Academic Challenge is an annual competition between high schools, but it takes collaboration and commitment by Rutgers faculty and high school teachers to develop the content and questions that most accurately determine the best and the brightest! For more information on the Rutgers Academic Challenge, go to: http://www.challenge.rutgers.edu

On Your Marks - Lisa Funari Willever and Lisa Battinelli use their experience as classroom teachers to write a helpful and witty book for first year teachers. For more about On Your Mark, Get Set, Teach!, go to http://www.franklinmasonpress.com/