Emerging Pathways Into the Teacher Profession: Evaluating and Substantiating Their Effectiveness

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Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Programs (RTAPs) provide aspiring teachers the opportunity to receive training while earning a salary and working in schools. As RTAPs continue to grow, so does the need to study their effectiveness.

In a new brief cowritten by AIR’s Center on Great Teachers and Leaders and the Center for Economic Evaluation, experts provide insights on how emerging pathways into the profession (e.g., Grow-Your-Own, teacher residency models, RTAPs) can be evaluated to determine their overall effectiveness (e.g., number of teachers produced and retained, decrease in high-need shortages, improved student outcomes) and associated costs (e.g., cost per teacher retained, cost-per-student measure of outcome).