爱达荷州博伊西州立大学800万美元联邦资助办带薪教师驻校：三年培养75名教师，合作9个乡村学区
爱达荷州埃达县博伊西市报道 — 博伊西州立大学（Boise State University）教育学院正以一笔800万美元的联邦资助，为新教师提供带薪全职教学岗位，帮助他们留在爱达荷州学校任教。据该校学生报11月11日报道，这笔教师质量伙伴（Teacher Quality Partnership）资助来自美国教育部，用于设立 Project TRAIL，即「教师驻校导入与领导力学院」（Teacher Residency Academy for Induction and Leadership）。
项目首席研究员汉娜·卡特（Hannah Carter）表示，项目将与9个乡村学区合作，把实习教师安置到这些学区，并在他们毕业后留任；帕尔马（Parma）、库纳（Kuna）与考德威尔（Caldwell）为参与学区之列，这些学区将雇用 Project TRAIL 的毕业生。申请者须先被该校教育学院的小学教育、中学教育或特殊教育硕士项目录取，再提交书面与视频短文参加遴选。
报道称，实习教师通常在硕士项目最后一年完成无薪的「专业年」，Project TRAIL 将把这一年改为在本地学校的带薪全职驻校，并在此后帮助教师转入正式岗位、提供导入期支持。项目共同首席研究员梅根·林奇（Megan Lynch）表示，入职头一至五年为教师导入期，缺乏支持者更易倦怠离职。该项目三年内将在驻校、早期职业、导师与教师领袖等类别中共培养75名教师。据爱达荷州教育委员会2023年报告，该州每年约有2000个教师空缺需要填补。
Boise State University in Idaho Uses $8 Million Federal Grant for Paid Teacher Residencies: 75 Teachers Over Three Years With Nine Rural Districts
BOISE, Ada County, Idaho — Boise State University's College of Education is using an $8 million federal grant to offer paid, full-time teaching positions and help new teachers stay in Idaho schools, the university's student newspaper reported on November 11. The Teacher Quality Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Education funds Project TRAIL, the Teacher Residency Academy for Induction and Leadership.
Dr. Hannah Carter, the project's principal investigator, said it will work with nine rural districts to place student teachers in those districts and hire them after graduation; Parma, Kuna and Caldwell are among the participating districts. To be considered, student teachers must first be accepted into the elementary, secondary or special education master's programs in the College of Education, and then submit written and video essays.
Student teachers typically complete an unpaid professional year in the final year of their master's program; Project TRAIL will turn that year into a paid, full-time residency in local schools, and then help teachers transition into formal teaching positions with induction support. Dr. Megan Lynch, the project's co-principal investigator, said the first one to five years are a teacher's induction period and that unsupported new teachers are more likely to burn out and leave. Over three years, Project TRAIL will run 75 teachers through the program across resident, early-career, mentor and teacher leader categories. According to a 2023 report from the Idaho State Board of Education, around 2,000 teaching vacancies must be filled in Idaho every year.
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