New Teachers Learn Their ABCs at Orientation
More than 70 new teachers headed for jobs in Westside elementary schools participated in a special orientation Thursday, a school administrator said.
Stu Bernstein, administrator for the cluster of 28 elementary and four middle schools that feed into Hamilton, Palisades and University high schools, said the teachers are in a new 13-week training program developed by other teachers within the cluster.
The program is intended to teach new instructors everything from communicating with parents to counting children in the cafeteria, training that Bernstein said was standard many years ago but lost to budget cuts.
“We know all the data, research and anecdotal data shows consistent training for teachers really helps,” Bernstein said. “We’re hopeful that by staying with them--and that first semester is really difficult--that we’ll be able to help them.”
Teachers attending the all-day orientation at Webster Middle School were welcomed by the principals of Warner Avenue, Crescent Heights and Topanga elementary schools, and by Los Angeles school district board member Valerie Fields.
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