How much TAP professional development and training must a teacher participate in?
Ongoing applied professional growth means that time is set aside for teacher learning, which is always focused on increasing student learning and growth. This includes cluster groups, leadership team meetings and review of reflective journals. TAP restructures the school schedule to provide 60-90 minutes during the regular school day for targeted professional development where teachers can meet, learn, plan, mentor and share with other teachers, so they can constantly improve the quality of their instruction resulting in increasing their students’ academic achievement. Clusters are led by expert instructors in the school-the masters and mentor teachers. Each teacher is also expected to keep a reflective journal that includes identified goals and activities within clusters and classrooms that support new teacher learning as well as self-evaluation of the teacher’s proficiency in new instructional strategies. This new teacher learning is required to meet an identified student learning ne
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