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West, Martin; Chingos, Matthew – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
We use value-added models to calculate measures of effectiveness for new elementary school teachers in Florida between 2001-02 and 2005-06, then compare the attrition and mobility patterns of more and less effective teachers overall and across various types of schools. While we do not find evidence that schools are disproportionately losing their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4, Grade 5, Teacher Effectiveness
Hunter, Janice K.; Haines, Martha F. – 1985
Each school district in the state of Florida was required to submit for approval a model for implementing the Beginning Teacher Program mandated by the Florida legislature. The program model required that a support staff, consisting of a peer teacher, building-level administrator, and at least one other professional educator be assigned to assist…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Development, State Standards, Teacher Certification
Anderson, Betty; And Others – 1986
During the 1980s Florida has mandated several testing programs to improve the quality of the community college, state university, and teacher education entrants and graduates. Three measures were intended to improve the quality of community college/state university/teacher education students. The College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) program…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria, Beginning Teachers, Community Colleges
Wilkerson, Judy R. – 2000
This paper discusses strategies related to the challenge of program accountability for subject matter knowledge and competency among beginning teachers. It focuses on reaching common understandings of three key concepts (accountability, subject matter knowledge, and competence), presenting them from the perspective of the state of Florida. Florida…
Descriptors: Accountability, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Fountain, Cheryl A.; And Others – 1993
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) Alliance for Tomorrow's Teachers is a collaborative effort among the University of North Florida, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, the Clay and Duval County (Florida) school systems, and the Clay and Duval County teachers' unions. The goals of the program are to: (1) restructure the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Principles