Month: September 2016

INTERNATIONAL
IEN/T. Hatch. Recent Observations on Finnish Education from Elizabeth Green We found that same kind of enthusiasm and sense of autonomy …perhaps reflecting the extensive preparation and support that new teachers in Finland receive.

MyJoyOnline [Ghana]. Mahama’s manifesto promises on education innovative but...
..our commitment will be to establish colleges of education for the sole purpose of training teachers in early childhood care and development.

NATIONAL
AACTE. Grant Supports N.J. Chapter Campaign to Debunk Education Myths

AERA.
1) Call for Awards Nominations [deadline: Oct. 25]
2) Education Research Community Letter Urges Congress to Support IES Funding [deadline: Oct. 3]

Chiefs for Change. ESSA TITLE II-A: Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High-QualityTeachers Unlike more traditional programs, Relay eschews orthodoxy, using innovative pedagogical models that prioritize mastery over seat time…online coursework, and rapid feedback loops

Educators Rising. The Impact of Educators Rising [YouTube video]

Education Week.
1) ESSA: Education Department Releases Guidance on Teachers The department recommends that states and districts use the funds to make sure that teachers are supported from the time they enter educator training programs…
2) Study: Students Suffer When Teachers Are Hired After the School Year Start …the rate of newly-hired teachers coming on board when the school year is already underway is as high as 30 percent.
3) Understanding the Teacher Shortage Crisis and the Solutions to Fix it [K. Lockwood blog] the demonization of the teaching profession … has led to a wholesale exodus of senior teachers retiring, and potential teachers are choosing not to join the profession

CAEP. 2016 Convention workshops available online

JTE. Author Interview, K. Zeichner: ‘Engaging and Working in Solidarity With Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of Their Children’

Latham, Mertens, Hamann (2015). A Comparison of Teacher Preparation Models and Implications for Teacher Attrition: Evidence from a 14-Year Longitudinal Study

Learning Policy Institute. Teacher Supply and Demand: Getting the Numbers—and the Solutions—Right

NYTimes. Pronoun Privilege …it’s common for students to introduce themselves, whether in class or in student group meetings, by name, followed by a string of pronouns

SCALE/AACTE. updated edTPA Guidelines for Acceptable Support

US. Ed Dept. 9/27 Video Chat with Secretary King re Title II 

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Regents. September Research Work Group mtg. New Accountability – 21st Century Learning with Equity [presentation by Linda Darling-Hammond]

Staten Island Live. Study finds New York is the 7th best state for teachers, Jersey #1 NYS 30th — Projected Number of Teachers per 1,000 Students by Year 2022

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. New York City waives CUNY application fee for low-income students

DNAInfo. New Downtown Brooklyn Charter School Named for Champion of Desegregation Edmund W. Gordon (TC’s Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus) High School for the Applied Sciences will open next fall in Downtown Brooklyn

TC NewsRoom. TCCS new Principal Michelle Verdiner is partnering with TC to create a model of tailored instruction …grateful to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, led by Professor Lucy Calkins …music program was designed and is taught by a Teachers College Music & Music Education student under the direction of Professor Lori Custodero.

TCRecord. Learning to Attend to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners Through Teacher Inquiry in Teacher Education

INTERNATIONAL
All Africa.
1) Uganda: Govt Admits 80 Percent of Teachers Can’t Read For the trainee teachers, three out of 10 were able to pass…
2) Zimbabwe: Teachers Colleges to Become Universities

Journal of Teacher Education. Author Interview: Alastair Henry on Preservice Teachers’ Identity Development  A. Henry, Department of Social and Behavioral Studies at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden

Morocco World News. Teacher Trainees’ Crisis Continues: Hunger Strike During Eid Al-Adha

Nat’l Center on Educ and the Economy (NCEE). See assessment Finland’s teachers take to qualify for teacher preparation programs

Organ. for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Education at a Glance 2016

NATIONAL
AACTE.
1) Congress Is Back! Join a Federal Update Webinar
2) Innovations Inventory CFP [deadline Sept. 23]
3) Research-to-Practice Spotlight Series
4) Solving Teacher Shortages: Key Roles for Educator Preparation [Webinar at Noon, Sept. 29] Presenters incl. L, Darling-Hammond, S. Robinson, J. Robinson

AERA. Sign the Community Letter Supporting Funding for Institute of Education Sciences

EdWeek.
1) An Effective Teacher Can Improve Student Learning Across the Grade, Study Finds …mixing teachers with diverse performance levels can increase student achievement
2) ESSA Guidance Issued on ‘Evidence Based’ School Improvement
3) ESSA Raises K-12 Stakes in 2016 State-Level Elections

InsideHigherEd. Gains in Minority Grad Student Enrollments

The Atlantic. Don’t Blame the Teachers, Blame the curriculum.

Washington Post.
1) America has a teacher shortage, and a new study says it’s getting worse Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs dropped from 691,000 in 2009 to 451,000 in 2014, a 35 percent decline
2) School reform: What went wrong, what went right, and what we should do in the future We learned that evaluating teacher and preparation programs creates a false scientism…

NEW YORK STATE
Gothamist. New Yorkers’ Student Loan Debt Has More Than Doubled In The Last 10 Years

NYSED.
1) New Draft NYS English And Mathematics Learning Standards For Public Comment
2) Prof. Standards and Practices Board. September meetings agenda

SUNY. TeachNY Listening Tour

NEW YORK CITY
NYSED Regents. Bank Street College: Amendment to offer a M.S.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

 

INTERNATIONAL

EdWeek. Lessons From Denmark: Teachers Can Incorporate Empathy in the Curriculum Developing empathy is not only important for students; it’s a vital skill for teachers as well.

GBTimes. Finland schooling China in education reform …too many Chinese teachers lack adequate qualifications but training programmes aim to improve on this.

Iceland Review. Lack of Teachers as School Year Begins

USAToday. Why Finland is rejecting U.S. school reforms Teachers are directed to give students daily feedback and measure them against their starting points, not other students.

NATIONAL

American Educational Studies Association. 2016 Critics Choice Book Award: Reading, Writing and Talk: Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, K-2 by TC Prof. Mariana Souto-Manning and Jessica Martell

CAEP. Chief Accreditation Officer Vacany Notice

CEEDAR Center (Univ. of Fl). Webinar: Practice-Based Approaches for Improving Teacher Preparation [Sept. 21]

EdWeek.
1) Analysis Projects Growing National Shortfall of Teachers
2) Accrediting Teacher Prep: Former TEAC and NCATE Leaders Weigh In    Had CAEP followed the plan set out in the design-team report, it would have avoided all the problems described in the Education Week article.

Hechinger Report. How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

Learning Policy Institute. Understanding Teacher Shortages: A State-by-State Analysis of the Factors Influencing Teacher Supply, Demand, and Equity

Louisiana Tech Univ. Educators, education secretary talk teacher training

NEPC. Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence

Ozarks Public Radio. Trends in Teacher Preparation

Purdue Univ. $2 million NSF grant to fund College of Education STEM research project

TECSCU & TRG. Joint Fall Conference 2016 [deadline: Sept. 30]

Twitter Chat. #teacherprep @EdProgress & @HopeStreetGroup Sept. 20, 8pm

WashingtonPost/K. Zeichner. The problem with the growing effort to ‘disrupt’ teacher preparation in the United States

What Works Clearing House. Launch of Redesigned Website on Ed Research

NEW YORK STATE

NYSED. State Board Of Regents Approves New York’s Participation In Reciprocity Agreement For Distance Learning With Other States (SARA)

Chalkbeat. How I Teach: A fourth-grade teacher uses dance parties and emojis to engage students by Lauren Bakian-Aaker, NYS Teacher of the Year Finalist and TC Instructor

NEW YORK CITY

Chalkbeat. Teach for America’s presence in New York City hits 11-year low

NYTimes. Faculty Lockout at L.I.U.-Brooklyn Ends With Contract Agreement

Teachers College. Teacher as Activist: Bridging the Educational Divide  Wed. Sept. 21, 6:30-9:30

NATIONAL
A.I.R. & Univ. of Fl. Learning to Teach: Practice-Based Preparation in Teacher Education

CAEPCon. CFP [deadline. Oct. 10]

Chalkbeat. This Indiana college says teacher training should be more like med school

LATimes [OpEd]. Why firing bad teachers isn’t nearly as important as creating good ones

NCTAF. NCTAF Issues Call to Collective Action & Releases Report  Supporting these shifts requires deliberate and careful alignment of the systems that recruit and prepare new teachers,

New York Times.

1) An Effective but Exhausting Alternative to High-School Suspensions  New York’s Education Department is investing in training its own faculty, 

2) An F-Minus for America’s Schools From a Fed-Up Judge  He criticized “uselessly perfect teacher evaluations” 

3) Donald Trump Releases Education Proposal, Promoting School Choice  Rather than sending federal education dollars to schools … Mr. Trump proposed giving block grants to states

Univ. of Washington/K. Zeichner. What we (don’t) know about independent teacher preparation programs

Washington Post. ‘I love being a teacher — and my greatest joy is the tough kids’

NEW YORK STATE

NYS Legislature. [Reach out to your local Assemblymember and Senator to express support for these bills]

1) Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certified teachers already holding a graduate degree  Assembly Bill A10605,  Senate Bill  S7647
2) Relates to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program. Assembly Bill A7727 ,   Senate Bill S5512A

NYSED. Regents September Meeting agenda

NEW YORK CITY

DNA Info. Parents, Pols Call on DOE to Fix Space Issues at Harlem Elementary School  The school opened in 2010 as a partnership between the DOE and Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Inside Higher Ed. Latest on Long Island U Lockout of Faculty  [incl. undergrad and grad teacher ed programs]

New York Times. In Brooklyn, Stifling Higher Learning Among Hasidic Women  The letter went on to say that girls shouldn’t learn college subjects and that those who refused to obey would be denied positions as teachers.

 

INTERNATIONAL

IEN. A Tale of Two Countries: Improvement in Germany and Decline in Australia’s Educational Performance

     …high quality of Germany’s teachers including the strong focus on initial selection, state-based examinations, training and certification.

NPR Ed. The Best Schools In The World Do This. Why Don’t We?

     …in many top-performing countries,… educators are often trained at a handful of the best, most selective universities.

The Diplomat. India’s New Education Policy: What Are The Priorities?

     …curriculum development and examination reform, teacher and faculty training, lifelong literacy, higher education and long distance learning.

NATIONAL

AACTE. Invitation: ‘Teach to Lead’ Teacher Prep Summit With USED [deadline Sept. 15]

Brookings Institute. High hopes and harsh realities: The real challenges to building a diverse teacher workforce

Chalkbeat.
New study: Teachers’ wages lag further behind their peers than ever before

     The discussion about teacher recruitment and retainment can’t overlook what teachers are getting paid,…

No professionals say, ‘I became great at my work by attending workshops.’ Why do we treat teaching differently?
How did educators in the United States reach a point where we are, incongruously, using a completely different set of practices to help adults learn to be great than any other field?

First Person: It doesn’t matter how ‘proficient’ a potential teacher is. Here’s what we look for instead

Cloaking Inequity. Breaking News: @TeachForAmerica and @KIPP stole ideas and curriculum?

EdSurge. More Than a Million Syllabuses at Your Fingertips

EduVentures. Follow the Teacher

…to maintain accreditation by CAEP, educator preparation providers must demonstrate the effectiveness of their graduates by linking student outcomes …

EdWeek.

States Loosen Teacher-Licensure Rules Amid Shortage Fears
     …dropping the requirement that teachers who are certified in other states take New York’s own certification exams.

Teacher-Prep Accreditation Group Seeks to Regain Traction: CAEP standards in force this fall

Hechinger Report. Can Teach For America get more teachers to stick around in some of the nation’s poorest schools?

HuffingtonPost (A. Singer blog). ETS to Replace Students with Avatars in Teacher Certification Exams

Nat’l Conf. of State Legislators (NCSL). No Time to Lose How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State

NEA Today. First Few Weeks as a New Teacher: 3 Things I Wish I Had Known

New York Times (OpEd, TC Assoc. Prof. C. Emdin). Why Black Men Quit Teaching
     Instead of fixating on black male teachers, we need to examine how teachers are trained, their beliefs about young minority men,…

PBS News Hour. Illinois State’s Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline [9-min. news video]

PoliticoNewYork. Overturning precedent, NLRB rules graduate students may form unions

TeacherReady. New Online Teacher Certification Program

The Atlantic. Harvard’s New Approach to America’s Teacher Deficit

Twin Cities Pioneer Press. Appeals panel denies state’s request to dismiss teacher licensing lawsuit

Univ. of VA Curry School of Ed. Research You Can Use: Educators Edition 2016

US Ed Dept. Preparing and Credentialing the Nation’s Teachers: The Secretary’s 10th Report on Teacher Quality

University Affairs. Should education professors have school-related experience?

NEW YORK STATE

Inside Higher Ed. St. John’s U of New York Goes Test Optional

Lohud Journal News. Tough job market for NY teacher candidates

NYSED Regents. 2016-17 meeting schedule

NEW YORK CITY

Teachers College.

Doctoral Specialization in Teacher Education

Teaching for the New Majority: A TC institute reimagines education for racially diverse classrooms

The Atlantic. The Underestimation of America’s Preschool Teachers: One city’s attempt to professionalize early education could be a model for the nation.