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What new teachers say about Teaching Excellence

December 17, 2009 by Jeremy Jones

Teaching Excellence is the professional development and certification program for all first year teachers at YES Prep.  To learn more about Teaching Excellence, please email teaching.excellence@yesprep.org.

“I couldn’t have done my job last year without Teaching Excellence because the knowledge and skills they provided me with were invaluable. The instructional coaches have knowledge and insight from their many years of teaching that helped me avoid the most common mistakes that new teachers make. I became a better teacher much, much faster than I could have on my own.” – Lindsey Windham, English I Teacher, YES Prep East End

“Teaching Excellence gives me quality materials that I can immediately implement in my classroom. There are so many things that I know I will learn over time through experience, but there’s not much I’m going to look back on and say ‘I wish I learned that in the beginning.’ I’m learning those things now, and that’s so invaluable to me.” – Jessica Harrison, Spanish I Teacher, YES Prep East End

“Teaching Excellence is a crucial part of me being a new teacher at YES. As a newbie with little prior training, I came into the year feeling much more confident and prepared in the classroom. What’s also helpful is having a close instructional coach available whenever needed. My IC is constantly coming into my classroom to give me feedback and pointers and is constantly pushing me forward!” – Danielle Knight, 6^th grade science, YES Prep East End

"Teaching Excellence was like a boot-camp for non-teachers. I went from zero education experience to feeling fully prepared for the first-day classes. That's a really great way to start the year." – Matt Drwenski, 10^th grade World History and Economics Teacher, YES Prep Southeast

For more information about Teaching Excellence email mailto:teaching.excellence@yesprep.org or to apply online visit http://www.yesprep.org/work.

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