Assistant
Superintendent
Harrison
School District
400
S Sycamore Street
Harrison
AR 72601
Dear
Dr. Lewis:
We
have talked in the past about how we might work together to place more student
teachers in the Harrison School District.
I believe that recent developments in the adoption of and alignment to
Pathwise may provide us with the support we have needed. We now have a certified Pathwise trainer on
faculty, and all of our faculty have or are receiving Pathwise
training. We are presently involved in
aligning curriculum in all of our programs, early childhood, middle level and
secondary. If supervisors in the field
also shared this training, we would all be on the same page and be able to provide
and receive improved, consistent and constructive
feedback in the preparation of pre-service teachers. We believe this approach to teacher
preparation will improve the quality of the first-year teacher and impact
student learning.
To
that end, we would like to hold a Pathwise training in
your area. We are looking at December 7th
and 8th. Arkansas Tech would
provide the trainer and pay for substitutes for 6 to 8 teachers from your
district. We would be offering the same
training to Jasper and Deer so that we would have a compliment of at least 20
teachers for the two-day training. We
would ask that trained teachers, then, be available to received student
teachers beginning in the spring of 2001.
I’ll
be anxious to hear if this is of interest to you and look forward to your
comments.
Sincerely,
Gwen
Morgan