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A Ten-Year Review of a New
Jersey Science and Mathematics
Teacher Endorsement Program
By Robert Goodman, Ed.D., Executive Director of the New Jersey Center
for Teaching and Learning
A Groundbreaking Their goal was to replicate the success This collaboration resulted in leg-
Collaboration of a STEM education initiative that I islation enabling NJCTL to pilot a
developed at Bergen County Techni-
program to create new STEM teach-
In 2009, a groundbreaking collabora- cal High School in Teterboro, which ers using an entirely new approach:
tion developed among the New Jersey led to my becoming the 2006 New teaching current teachers, of any sub-
State Legislature, New Jersey De- Jersey State Teacher of the Year. As ject area and academic background,
partment of Education (DOE), New the program was grounded in 9th grade mathematics or science, as well as
Jersey Governor’s Office, New Jersey physics and 10th grade chemistry, sub- how to teach it. NJCTL immediately
Education Association (NJEA), and jects for which there were only enough became the #1 producer of physics
New Jersey Center for Teaching and teachers to instruct fewer than half of teachers in the United States and, by
Learning (NJCTL), a nonprofit chari- all New Jersey students, an immediate 2010, was also a leading producer of
table foundation formed by NJEA. goal was to dramatically increase the chemistry teachers.
number of teachers for these subjects.
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