MindUniversity is excited to support Building Bridges—a teacher-led mentoring and professional development initiative in K-12 education.
Building Bridges
"There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities."
-Partnership for 21st Century Skills
American K-12 school administrators face an aging American
teacher population, an increasingly fast-paced technological
world and 30-50 percent of new staff leaving the profession
before their fifth year. In some urban systems teacher
attrition is 75 percent. |
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For the most part, America’s teaching culture is extremely
isolated. Young teachers point out the emotional demands
of teaching and the lack of mentoring and instructional support
as primary reasons for leaving early. Teachers who stay on
refer to their early years as a process of learning and
surviving. Opportunities to share best practices and
collaborate with other professionals are rare for most American
K-12 teachers.
The emergence of Internet technology holds promise to break
this isolation, but, in all too many cases, has added to the
confusion. Many experienced teachers have difficulty
finding time to learn new technologies and prefer to use what
has worked in the past. Younger teachers are open to
Internet tools but don’t know how to best use them in the
classroom or where to go for ideas.
Building Bridges
Building Bridges is a teacher-led mentoring and professional development initiative that builds public-partnerships to infuse 21st century skills in K-12 education. We are excited to help bridge lines of communication between America’s teachers; we believe that teacher excellence is the key to student success.
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