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Enrichment Program Trains Teachers, Improves Student Achievement

October 10 , 2005

An enrichment program called Learning Through Teaching in an After-School Pedagogical Laboratory addresses two issues: the underachievement of African American students and the preparation of teachers who can work successfully with these students. Jeffrey Lewis says the goals of the program are to serve as a pedagogical laboratory and professional development site for inexperienced teachers; to link inexperienced teachers with effective, experienced teachers of poor urban students; to document and examine the process of student learning; and to document and analyze the processes by which inexperienced teachers learn to teach. L-TAPL students at a New Jersey site demonstrated significant learning gains in reading, math, and writing on the basis of pre-tests and post-tests. L-TAPL students also outperformed a matched district sample of students in reading and math on a district-administered test, the Terra Nova.