In what appears to be a paradox, at a time of continuing teacher shortages, a district like Yonkers -- which recently advertised for candidates in math, sciences and foreign languages -- is participating in a New York State early retirement incentive program that could theoretically remove about 100 experienced teachers from the Yonkers system as part of a cost-cutting measure.
We also ran two three-day workshops as part of their normal continuing teacher training to give them the necessary practical knowledge, as well as the confidence to introduce a significantly new teaching method to their students.
7.2.2.8 The Need for Continuing Teachers' professional development We noted that currently most of the teachers who were teaching in COBET were recruited from primary schools and were professionally trained to teach children in primary schools.
This time-honored method is best guaranteed with sufficient resources allocated to continued teacher professional development.
"The new generation must continue; life must continue," teacher Shahad Mimi said.
"The focus this year is on the construction of more permanent classrooms, continued teacher training and the strengthening of an information management system, which has been developed this year as a monitoring and planning tool," said Chaiban.
Later, it continues: "Teachers and parents should avoid any kind of hitting, slapping, whipping, kicking, punching, grabbing, pushing, or pulling for it may be misconstrued as part of aggression and could lead to physical and/or legal confrontations".
"Additional aid would allow us to start looking at building facilities," said the superintendent of schools, Nathaniel Clay, "as well as to hire more teachers, continue our teacher in-service training and add a much-needed full-day kindergarten".
Median wages for new K-12 teachers ranged from $20,360 for continuing education teachers to $50,480 for middle-school vocational teachers.
Attention turned to modernization of initial and continuing VET teacher training (Haridusministeerium 2001).
Roemer's lunchtime visits continued, the teacher said, though he skipped the table where she and her pupils ate.
