Superintendent
Jasper
School District
P O
Box 446
Jasper
AR 72641
Dear
Joe:
We
have been looking for an appropriate opportunity to work together to place more
student teachers in the Jasper 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, inevitably,
impact student learning.
To
that end, we would like to hold a Pathwise
training in your area. Jasper would
provide a central location. We are
looking at December 7th and 8th of this year .
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 Deer and Harrison 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
Director
of Teacher Education Student Services
Phone
501-968-0684, Fax 501-964-0508
Gwen.Morgan@mail.atu.edu