Challenges

Professional Growth

alignment between teacher professional growth needs and evaluation criteria

Full Challenge: The alignment between teacher evaluation criteria and teachers' professional growth needs.

Challenge Description: The criteria used to evaluate teacher performance often don't align with the professional growth needs of an individual teacher.

Teacher Forum Talks: NGSS, the Meaning of STEM, and Resources

100Kin10 Teacher Forum members gathered virtually in November to discuss what they had heard from their peers during recent Listening Sessions....

It’s More Than Schedules: Teacher Collaboration and Innovative Instruction

We launched the 100Kin10 Teacher Forum to get a better pulse on what’s happening in schools and classroom across the country, directly from STEM...

Professional development is often treated as a compliance issue.

Recent reports from such organizations as the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science highlight concerns regarding the skills of...

There is no commonly-agreed upon trajectory for teacher professional growth.

Currently, there exists a plethora of ways and reasons that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers engage in professional...

Teachers often lack access to quality STEM professional development.

Efforts to improve K–12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education will necessarily require quality teachers in the classroom,...

Teachers' voices are regularly absent from conversations about their professional growth.

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs are expected to increase by “17 percent...

"Too often, professional development in schools is disjointed, unsupported, and participated in just to check a box toward recertification"

In the third grade, I had a lovely teacher who meant well. Nearly every week, we would celebrate Fridays with a game of “Round the World” to practice...

Schools often lack a collaborative environment to foster teacher growth.

One of the factors contributing to the attrition of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers is the lack of a collaborative...