{"id":36,"date":"2019-03-28T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/fast-learners-a-speedy-start-for-teachers\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:00:43","slug":"fast-learners-a-speedy-start-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/fast-learners-a-speedy-start-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Learners:  A Speedy Start for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">A fast-track-to-teaching program called the AAT Express \u2014 currently in place as a partnership between NCTC and Midwestern State University \u2014 will expand to include the University of North Texas by Fall 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">NCTC\u2019s Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) Express is an accelerated 18-month program that shortens Teacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Education students\u2019 core curriculum program from four semesters to three with a combination of 8- and 16-week courses plus online and hybrid courses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Currently, face-to-face coursework is typically offered in the evenings \u2014 after 6 p.m. \u2014<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>at the MSU NCTC Flower Mound campus at 100 Parker Square Road. AAT Express coursework designated for transfer to UNT will be headquartered at NCTC\u2019s Gainesville campus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fast-track-to-teaching program called the AAT Express \u2014 currently in place as a partnership between NCTC and Midwestern State University \u2014 will expand to include the University of North Texas by Fall 2019. NCTC\u2019s Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) Express is an accelerated 18-month program that shortens Teacher Education students\u2019 core curriculum program from&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/fast-learners-a-speedy-start-for-teachers\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-education","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}