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Need state: Helping teachers help at-risk students in secondary school

Need state: Helping teachers help at-risk students in secondary school. Anne Lessard, Ph.D. Need state. Tensions exist between the knowledge and skills offered in teacher education programs and the reality teachers face in practice in secondary schools .

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Need state: Helping teachers help at-risk students in secondary school

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  1. Need state: Helpingteachers help at-riskstudents in secondaryschool Anne Lessard, Ph.D.

  2. Need state • Tensionsexistbetween the knowledge and skillsoffered in teachereducationprograms and the realityteachers face in practice in secondaryschools. • A group of secondaryschoolteachersassessedtheirneed for professionaldevelopment, specificallywith regards to specialeducationpopulations integrated in regularclassrooms. • A custom program wascreated for them.

  3. Professional learningcommunity? PD program Achievement/adaptation Teacherproficiency Teachers

  4. Expected vs unexpectedoutcomes • Teachersreported: • Feeling betterequiped to deal withstudents (and parents), dosing intervention • Reflecting on their practice (on-goinganalysis) • Sharedexperience • Goingback to the basics • Specificskillsdevelopment • Teachersshared more amongstthem (reliability) • Theirdiscourseindicatesfulfillment of psychologicalneeds • Theydevelopedgreater self-assurance

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