Grants for Teacher Professional Development

Grants for Teacher Professional Development – There are many financial aids for teacher professional development available for aspiring teachers who want to be better at what they do. Depending on the source, the type of financial assistance you can get usually comes in the form of grants, scholarships, and fellowships. Teachers can use the assistance to improve their teaching methods, widen their knowledge and polishing their engaging ability with the students.

Typically, in order to obtain such knowledge, you have to pay a ridiculous amount of money, but these financial assistance programs may be able to help these teachers so that they can afford the education needed.

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The program may be administered or funded by the Federal government, state government, organization or foundations. We’ve made a list of scholarships, fellowships and grants for teacher professional development below:

Grants for Teacher Professional Development Programs

McCarthey Dressman Teacher Development Grants

In order to promote new teaching strategies and methods in the K-12 classrooms, the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation has given several grants for teachers so that they can improve their skills. This is a typical grant program that can be used to fund a project you (and your fellow teachers) try to implement in the classroom. Projects that have long lasting effect are preferred, and the foundation is more than ready to give assistance in the implementation of the project. The award amount for this kind of project is up to $10,000 for three years.

Fund for Teachers

If you’re looking for programs that promote individual professional development, then this Fund for Teachers grant is one of them. The award amount given by this program ranges between $5,000 and $10,000, and the teachers awarded this grant get to choose which professional development programs or opportunity they would like to pursue. Of course, since this is a free-form grant you need to be clear about your motivations, predicted impact, objective, and the reason why you choose the particular program.

NEA Foundation

Teachers who are looking for professional development programs can try applying for the NEA Foundation grants.  The basic aim of this grant is to improve the teachers’ curriculum, student achievements etc. Basically, all of the awarded teachers have to apply what they have learned during the professional development programs. Teachers can use this money to fund summer institutes, action research, and lesson studies from higher education institutions. The award amount ranges between $2,000 and $5,000.

Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program

Last but not least, we have a fellowship for teacher professional development program. I personally think that this program is the most unique out of all of the programs we’ve listed so far. The fellowship program allows the selected teachers to get a first-hand experience in federal agencies or congressional offices that are related to education. During that time they will have the opportunity to pay close attention and learn about the education reform efforts, programming, etc. Please do note that applicants should have at least 5 years of experience in teaching STEM subjects. The duration of the fellowship is less than a year, and you will get $6,000 monthly stipend and $1,000 living expenses each month.

There you go, there are many other similar financial assistance for teacher professional development programs, but we are running out of time and we hope that our list can be sufficient for you.

References:

  • The NEA Foundation – http://www.neafoundation.org/
  • Fund for Teacher – http://www.fundforteachers.org/
  • Teacher Development Grants – http://mccartheydressman.org/teacher-development-grants/
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