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KEYS to Teaching Success: Start Here

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      Welcome to KEYS to Teaching Success, an open educational resource designed to support teacher candidates in the state of Georgia. Whether you are enrolled in a traditional teacher education program (such as one at a college or university) or in an alternative program (such as GTaPP), this resource is designed for you.

      KEYS To Teaching Success is a work in progress. It's designed to help you master the standards of the Georgia Intern KEYS rubric, which is modeled after the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System. Currently, this resource includes lessons to help you master Standard 9 (Professionalism) and 10 (Communication). Although those are the last two standards on the list, they are also the standards that are assessed from the beginning of any teacher preparation program. They are also the broadest and most widely demonstrated of the ten standards.

     In digital format, KEYS to Teaching Success gives you a no-cost resource to support your progress toward a teaching certificate. It is available via various modalities--laptop, desktop, tablet, or phone. It links teacher candidates to other important teacher-preparation resources, such as the Intern KEYS rubric and the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES). Finally, each lesson includes discussion topics and brief exercises to help you assess your learning.

     Over time, this resource will grow. The plan for KEYS to Teaching Success is to build more lessons in such a way that it offers support information for each standard. For now, click on the tabs at the top of this page to explore the lessons designed for Standards 1, 7, 9, and 10.  

Acknowledgements

KEYS to Teaching Success is a team effort. It was made possible through funding from Affordable Learning Georgia, whose mission it is to promote student success and foster educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation and creation of affordable and open educational resources by USG faculty and presentational staff.

      A primary goal of KEYS to Teaching Success was to create and publish a valid, reliable, peer reviewed open educational resource to support Georgia's teacher candidates. To meet that goal, this project recruited the assistance of diverse teacher educators, teachers and teacher candidates to review, critique and edit all content. This team represents schools from urban and rural Georgia. They teach in the humanities and STEM fields. While some are preparing for certification, others are in the later stages of their careers. All team members are dedicated to helping support new colleagues to teach in the state of Georgia.

For Standards 9 and 10, the KEYS to Teaching Success team includes the following contributors (in alphabetical order): 

  • Nikki Cannon-Rech, Associate Professor of University Libraries, Georgia Southern University
  • Nathania Cortes: English Language Arts Teacher, Rome High School
  • Sabra Lawson: Mathematics Teacher, Telfair County Middle School
  • Nancy Remler: Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
  • Ricky Robinson: Teacher Candidate, Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University
  • Heather Scott: Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University
  • Craig Showers: Teacher Candidate, Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University
  • Janel Janiczek Smith: Senior Lecturer, Georgia Southern University

For Standards 1 and 7, the KEYS to Teaching Success team includes the following contributors (in alphabetical order): 

  • Taylor Attia, Teacher Candidate, Elementary Education, Georgia Southern University
  • Nikki Cannon-Rech, Associate Professor of University Libraries, Georgia Southern University
  • Sabra Lawson: Mathematics Teacher, Telfair County Middle School
  • Alesia Mickle Moldavan: Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
  • Nancy Remler: Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
  • Ricky Robinson: History Teacher, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System
  • Janel Janiczek Smith: Senior Lecturer, Georgia Southern University
  • Keyani Smith: Teacher Candidate, Secondary Education - Mathematics, Georgia Southern University

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