EDUCATING THE TEACHERS OF THE FUTURE PLAN WILL BOOST LOCAL TRAINING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer MOJAVE - East Kern County residents could earn college degrees or teaching credentials closer to home through a $5 million federal grant aimed at helping put more highly qualified teachers into Mojave and California City classrooms. Online courses - in which students interact with college instructors elsewhere - will be offered via computers set up in a rented California City building, and experienced teachers will be hired to help guide the college students as they take courses by computer. ``Since we live in kind of an isolated area, we have a hard time getting qualified teachers,'' said Bonnie bon·ny also bon·nie adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots 1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty. 2. Excellent. O'Bar, Mojave Unified School District's director of education services. ``The purpose of the grant is to bring other people into the field of teaching, people who want to go to a second career or who always wanted to do teaching.'' The classes would be online courses offered by colleges such as California State University, Bakersfield As of fall 2002, some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students attended CSUB, at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus, Antelope Valley Center in Lancaster, California of Los Angeles County. ; Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. and Cerro Coso College. The students will need to pay the college fees for the online courses. Officials hope to have the online facilities ready in January or February. The Mojave Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. is one of six school districts and colleges in California this year to receive the Transition to Teaching grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant is intended to help the district meet the mandates of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 , which requires that all teachers and instructional aides be highly qualified by the year 2006. To be highly qualified, teachers must demonstrate competency in a subject matter by passing a test, be fully credentialed, and participate in a two-year beginning teacher program, O'Bar said. Instructional aides must show competency in math and language arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. by taking a test or have two years of college education, O'Bar said. It is hoped that the online college center will draw students from within the district and the surrounding areas of Tehachapi, Rosamond, Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. , Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. and maybe even Lancaster. ``We are trying to get people to college. The ultimate goal is to get more people in the teaching field,'' O'Bar said. ``Hopefully they will stick around and teach in our schools.'' Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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