Pearson to Provide Teachers With Online Professional Development on Effective Instructional Strategies
SAN ANTONIO – June 30, 2008 –Today at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Pearson announced that Perspective™, the company’s powerful online remediation and enrichment tool for students, will now include online access to teacher professional development materials from Allyn & Bacon/Merrill.
Perspective provides students, families and educators with a roadmap to student improvement through enrichment and remediation resources tailored to student needs. With a strong history in education publishing and a broad understanding of the education climate, Allyn & Bacon/Merrill Professional Development provides professional development materials that effectively blend academic research and practical application for today’s K-12 educators.
With the addition of these new teacher professional development resources from Allyn & Bacon/Merrill, Perspective is putting even more tools for improving student achievement at teachers’ fingertips. Now with the click of a mouse, educators using Perspective can access online professional development resources on topics such as the latest in literacy; English language acquisition; effective science, math and reading teaching methodologies; early childhood education; classroom management; leadership; and special education.
“Engaged, dedicated teachers are the key to student achievement,” said Douglas Kubach, president and CEO, Assessment and Information, Pearson. “Providing teachers with access to Allyn & Bacon/Merrill’s highly regarded professional development materials makes Perspective an even more powerful tool for helping all students achieve their academic potential.”
Perspective is a ground-breaking, research-based tool designed to provide materials that enrich and improve students’ knowledge and skills in areas where they are having difficulty. Perspective links students’ test results with targeted teaching strategies and learning resources. Using the online tool, teachers can create custom assignment sheets, explore unit plans and access an ever-growing library of teacher support materials and professional development resources. Perspective helps families understand how students are doing, helps educators prepare for their classes and details what both can do to help each student succeed.
“It is exciting to add our professional development resources to this portal dedicated to improving student achievement,” said Nancy Forsyth, president, Allyn & Bacon/Merrill, Pearson. “Our authors represent the best-of-the-best in professional development, and now teachers can quickly and easily access their expertise to learn new instructional strategies or refresh ones that they had used in the past.”
These new online professional development resources for teachers are now available for download and printing, at no additional charge, to existing Perspective customers via the Perspective Web portal.
For more information on Perspective, visit http://www.pearsonperspective.com. For more information on Allyn & Bacon/Merrill, visit http://www.allynbaconmerrill.com.
About Pearson
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages to learn at their own pace, in their own way. For students preK-12, Pearson provides effective and innovative curriculum products in all available media, educational assessment and measurement for students and teachers, student information systems, and teacher professional development and certification programs. The company’s respected brands include The Stanford Achievement Test, the Wechsler Scales, PEMSolutions, Perspective, PASeries, Allyn & Bacon/Merrill, Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, AGS, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, TeacherVision and many others. Pearson’s comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student. Pearson’s other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
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Lisa Wolfe, L. Wolfe Communications, 773-325-9935, lwolfe@lwolfe.com
