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: STEM-spiration, CTE, and Teacher-led Learning

We launched the 100Kin10 Teacher Forum to hear directly from STEM teachers. Teacher Forum members help us keep a pulse on what’s happening “on the...

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.

Published July 2017. Recent reports from such organizations as the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science highlight concerns...

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

Published July 2017. Currently, there exists a plethora of ways and reasons that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers...

Teachers often lack access to quality STEM professional development.

Published July 2017. Efforts to improve K–12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education will necessarily require quality...

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

Published July 2017. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs are expected to...

"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.

Published July 2017. One of the factors contributing to the attrition of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers is the lack...