Northern Westchester Putnam Teacher Center

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Northern Westchester Putnam Teacher Center

• Bob LaRoche
• Director

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What is a Teacher Center ???

• A Teacher Center is a Staff Development Provider
• Its professional development from the bottom up.
  
• NYS Ed Law 316 states -- Teacher Centers must be
  controlled by a board made up of a majority of
  teaches appointed by the bargaining agent.
• A Teacher Center can be a location that teachers
  come to or can be an office that brings
  programs to teachers in specific locations like
  a school.

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Teacher Center Mission

• To provide quality professional development to
  support the goals of the Professional
  Development Plan
• Develop and implement professional. development
  activities directed at increasing student
  achievement.
• Support the needs of the teachers, districts,
  students and education community as needs change.

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Who controls the Teacher Center?

• A policy Board is made up of the following
• Teachers appointed by the bargaining agent (must
  make up a majority )
• Administrators appointed by the B.O.E. (or Supt)
• A college representative
• A parent
• A business representative

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How do Activities get developed?

• Each district has a staff development team that
  controls the funding for activities
• Teachers submit requests to their local staff
  development teams
• The local teams approve the requests
• The local team forwards the request to the TC
  office for implementation
• The TC program director arranges the logistics to
  facilitate the running of the activity

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Examples of TC activities

• Assist educators in assessing and meeting the
  learning needs of students.
• Provide computer demonstration and training sites
  and programs for educators.
• Promote educators' use of and involvement in
  educational research to develop and produce
  curricula - and curricular material.
• Provide educators with training for the
  improvement of teaching skills.  

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Examples of TC activities

• Provide a location and atmosphere to share
  resources, ideas, methods, information,materials
  and strategies.
• Train educators to prepare students to use
  technology, teach critical thinking and use
  proven strategies to improve student
  achievement. 

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Technology

• Introduce teachers to new technology.
• Update teacher skills as technology changes.
• Provide opportunities for teachers to review new
  technology strategies for the classroom.

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NWP Teacher Center Members

• 6 Public schools
• Brewster CSD
• Carmel CSD
• North Salem CSD
• Putnam Valley CSD
• Somers CSD
• Yorktown CSD

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NWP Teacher Center Members

• 3 Private Schools
• The Melrose School Brewster
• St. Josephs Croton Falls
• - Westchester Exceptional Childrens School -
  Purdys

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Contact Information

• NWP Teacher Center
• Projects Building 200 BOCES Drive
• Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
• 914-248-2368
• Fax [phone]
• www.nwpteachercenter.yorktown.ny.us
• Email nwpteachercenter_at_hotmail.com

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