Start UP Your Class Co-operative. Support and resources for early career teachers in BC
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Start UP! Your Class Co-operative

Our Aim:
We have aimed to demonstrate how to help early career elementary teachers in BC with a new assignment using face to face and video workshops, and online resources.
Who:
More than 1500 early career BC teachers have participated in the program's workshops since the program was begun with a BC Ministry grant to PITA in 2007.

We have focused upon supporting grade 4-7 and middle school teachers, and successfully tested our approach with primary teachers. We believe this  approach can help teachers at all levels.

The Start UP! program was begun by a group from the executive of  the Provincial Intermediate Teachers Association in BC led by Ray Myrtle.

Ray will continue to do a limited number of workshops, and we advocate for the development of professional orientation for new teachers. Our focus is upon sharing what we have learned so others can build upon our experience.

Create your own Professional Orientation for your district or school.

We would be happy to help by sharing what we have learned about helping new teachers so you can create your own custom Professional Orientation.
The main focus now is on collecting data about the effect of Start UP!'s  professional orientation on teachers since 2009 evaluation (below). So far, Ray has found that the workshop met a strong need, and was effective:
  • almost 100% participants would recommend the workshops to a new teacher.
  • teachers' evaluations of the program seem to be similar to the 2009 earlier external review
  • most teachers continue to use the strategies after 5 or more years
  • most teachers continue to recommend almost all the suggested strategies after 5 or more years.

Read an external evaluation for the Ministry as we began in 2009
NOTE: The Start UP! program was called the Year of Professional Support (YPS) when this evaluation was done.
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  • Home
  • Workshops
    • Start UP! Your Class Successfully with Ray Myrtle
    • Start UP! Reading: Literature Circles with Elaine Jaltema
    • Building Math Confidence with Ann-Marie Hunter
  • Sign Up
  • Contact
  • About