What does T2T stand for?

Encouraging individuals with diverse professional backgrounds to make the transition to teaching can be a way to tap into real-life experience and provide students, as well as existing staff, with additional models of excellence and innovation.

And IBM's Transition to Teaching program encourages second careers in science and math by offering employees nearing retirement up to $15,000 in education tuition grants and a living stipend during teaching internships, in addition to online opportunities for mentoring and sharing of best practices (HP Global, 2007; Institute for a Competitive Workforce, 2008; "Science Ambassadors," 2008; "Why Transition," 2008).

Pre-service teacher preparation and transition to teaching has been researched internationally from many perspectives including but not limited to the following: * implementing programs and methods that aim to develop pre-service teachers' abilities or knowledge base or both (Collins, 2004; Orland-Barak & Yinon, 2005; O'Sullivan, 2002; Page & Hastings, 2006) * including school--university partnerships (Godinho et al.

First, the transition to teaching must be conceptualized in terms of relationships between candidates and their surrounding contexts, especially mentors.

We can expand and adapt successful government initiatives such as the Troops to Teachers program, which helps retiring military personnel train for second careers in education, and private-sector initiatives such as IBM's Transition to Teaching program, which helps the company's senior engineering and technical staff move into roles as science and math teachers.

The pair says their transition to teaching has had its share of lessons.

In fact, my initial foray into writing for the Internet was not intended to be a profitable venture but rather a way to express myself when I made the transition to teaching writing full-time.

Wichita State University's (WSU) Transition to Teaching program expects to recruit and train more than 500 new teachers in the next five years, thanks to a $6.