Superintendent
Deer
School District
P O
Box 56
Deer
AR 72628
Dear
Mr. Denniston:
We
have talked in the past about how we might work together to place more student
teachers in the Deer 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 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