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Title II Part A - Improving Teacher Quality State Grants
Preliminary 09-10 Grant Amounts in Excel
The Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program increases student achievement by elevating teacher and principal quality through recruitment, hiring, and retention strategies The program uses scientifically based professional development interventions and holds districts and schools accountable for improvements in student academic performance. This program was created because research shows that teacher quality is correlated with student academic achievement (Sanders and Rivers, 1996). Because each community may face a variety of challenges with respect to teacher quality, this program allows funds to be used for a wide array of interventions.
Non Public Schools Hold Harmless Amounts and Enrollment Percentages for determining Equitable Professional Development Services (Appendix A)-Excel
Title IIA Needs Assessment Planning Guidance:
- Model Form for Needs Assessment and Planning
- Systemic Professsional Training and Development: A How To for No Child Left Behind (NCLB); Maine Department of Education
- Appendix 1: A Crosswalk Between the Maine Training and Development Standards and the NCLB Plan Element; Maine Department of Education
- Appendix 2: A Culture of Learning -- Achieving Results in Maine Schools through Professional Training and Development; Maine Department of Education
DEFINITIONS
Highly Qualified Teachers
To be “highly qualified”, teachers are required to demonstrate competency by meeting the following criteria:
- Holding a Bachelor’s degree or higher; and
- Holding full Maine State Teaching Certification (Provisional, Professional, or Master); and
- Having a major, or coursework equivalent to a major (24 semester hours), from an accredited four-year college(s) or university in the assigned core content area; or holding an advanced degree in that content area; or holding National Board Certification in that content area; or having passed the PRAXIS II in that content area.
High Quality Professional Development
The term “high-quality professional development” means professional development that meets the criteria contained in the definition of professional development in Title IX, Section 9101(34) of ESEA. Professional development includes, but is not limited to, activities that:
- Improve and increase teachers’ knowledge of academic subjects and enable teachers to become highly qualified;
- Are an integral part of broad schoolwide and districtwide educational improvement plans;
- Give teachers and principals the knowledge and skills to help students meet challenging State academic standards;
- Improve classroom management skills;
- Are sustained, intensive, and classroom-focused and are not one-day or short-term workshops;
- Advance teacher understanding of effective instruction strategies that are based on scientifically based research; and
- Are developed with extensive participation of teachers, principals, parents, and administrators.
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
IIA Project Description by category
FEDERAL LINKS
NCLB Federal Legislation for Title IIA
NCLB Federal Guidance-Word Document for Title IIA
Director: Barbara Moody
Title II Teacher Quality State Grants
23 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0023
Phone: 207-624-6828
FAX: 207-624-6821
e-mail: barbara.moody@maine.gov
