GLOBAL
InsideHigherEd. Recruiting in the Western Hemisphere: Speakers at EducationUSA conference discuss recruitment within a diverse hemisphere. The Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama all provide government scholarships for teacher training, while Canada and Mexico have scholarships for short-term, nondegree study.
NYTimes. Mexico: Main Suspect Absolved in 2014 Student Disappearances One of the main suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students in southern Mexico has been acquitted, a human rights attorney said Tuesday…
Sudbury.com [Toronto] Standardized tests for teachers don’t necessarily improve student scores: report. Starting at the end of this academic year, new teachers will have to score at least 70 per cent on the test to register with the teachers’ college.
Sydney Morning Herald. $80,000 pay rises in plan to tackle ‘low status’ of teaching in Australia The plan would introduce scholarships worth $10,000 a year for top school leavers who go on to study teaching.
UNESCO. eAtlas of Teachers
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Outstanding Dissertation Award [extended deadline Sept. 13]
Brookings Institute. The value of student-teacher matching: Implications for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act [by T. Bristol TC PhD ‘14] …given the evidence on ethnoracial matching between students and teachers, policymakers working on the HEA reauthorization of must identify the levers available within the purview of that act to increase the number of our nation’s Latino and Black teachers.
Chalkbeat. 6 of the 10 leading Democratic candidates say they will boost teacher diversity. Here’s how. Strategy #1: Add and expand teacher-prep programs at colleges that serve many students of color Strategy. #2: Fund new kinds of teacher-prep programs Strategy. #3: Tackle prospective teachers’ financial challenges.
EducationWeek.
1) Michael Bennet Releases K-12 Plan, Says Education System Reinforces Inequality Addressing student loan debt through a variety of proposals, including student loan forgiveness for teachers and other professionals in high-need areas… Improved teacher training and residency programs…
2) Teachers Nationwide Now Have Access to Open-Source Science Curriculum
3) Teachers Still Believe in ‘Learning Styles’ and Other Myths About Cognition Boser said schools should provide accurate information on the science of learning through those channels, in an effort to combat these myths. But it should start in teacher preparation, he said. “Many schools of education don’t embrace the cognitive sciences,” Boser said. Yet they have a responsibility to prepare teachers to stay abreast of the current research in the cognitive sciences: “It would be weird if large swathes of American doctors believed in bloodletting,” he said.
NYTimes. ‘We are committing educational malpractice’: Why slavery is mistaught — and worse — in American schools. Middle-school and high-school teachers stick to lesson plans from outdated textbooks that promote long-held, errant views. That means students graduate with a poor understanding of how slavery shaped our country, and they are unable to recognize the powerful and lasting effects it has had.
Phi Delta Kappan. Frustration in The Schools: Teachers Speak Out on Pay, Funding, and Feeling Valued. Education marks the sharpest difference. Ninety-two percent of teachers have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with 33% of the general public. Indeed, 58% of teachers have a master’s degree or higher vs. just 15% of all adults.
Washington Post.
1) People do grammar bad. Google’s AI is hear too help. “Language is part of your heritage and identity, and if you’re using a tool that is constantly telling you, ‘You’re wrong,’ that is not a good thing,” said Paulo Blikstein, associate professor of communications, media and learning technology design at Columbia University Teachers College. “There is not one mythical, monolithical (English) … And every time we have tried to curtail the evolution of a language, it has never gone well.”
2) Teaching America’s truth” For generations, children have been spared the whole, terrible reality about slavery’s place in U.S. history, but some schools are beginning to strip away the deception and evasions Many teachers feel ill-prepared, and textbooks rarely do more than skim the surface. There is too much pain to explore. Too much guilt, ignorance, denial.
3) With substitute teachers in high demand, Montgomery County eases requirements Hoping to broaden the pool of substitute teachers, school system officials have reduced requirements for the job: No longer is a bachelor’s degree the minimum. Now, applicants can qualify with an associate degree or 60 college credits.
NEW YORK STATE
Education Trust. New York’s Future Teachers: An Educator Equity Snapshot
Educator’s Voice. CFP: Vol. XIII – Students with Disabilities: Access and Equity in the School Community [deadline Oct. 1]
NYSATE/NYACTE. 2019 Annual Fall Conference Registration & nominations for Appleby Outstanding Teacher Educator Award [Oct. 17-19 Saratoga Springs]
NYSED
1) Office of Higher Education August Newsletter
a) Deputy Commissioner D’Agati Retiring
b) Guidance on Establishing and Strengthening Teacher Leadership in New York State
c) edTPA Passing Score Increasing in January 2020
2) Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching
a) New Website
b) May meeting minutes
c) Guidance on Establishing and Strengthening Teacher Leadership in New York State
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) A reading ‘crisis’: Why some New York City parents created a school for dyslexic students Teacher preparation programs aren’t consistently instructing educators on how to best teach children to read, experts said. Most public schools don’t have teachers with extensive training in methods such as Orton-Gillingham — and those that do have them are in short supply…. Jo Anne Simon (D-Brooklyn)…introduced a separate bill that would require all teacher prep programs to offer at least some instruction in phonics-based approaches.
2) New York’s gifted program is at the center of a new round of diversity debates. Here’s how it works. In such a large system, differences abound among classrooms, said Celia Oyler, a professor at Teachers College who studies how to make classrooms inclusive and challenging for all kinds of learners… James Borland, a Teachers College professor who studies gifted education, questioned whether the programs are uniformly high quality or even that distinguishable for general education classes.
Education Trust. New York’s Future Teachers: An Educator Equity Snapshot—Teachers College snapshot
Gotham Gazette. Why It’s Time to Re-think Bloomberg Era Gifted & Talented Programming in New York City[by TC Prof. A. S. Wells] In the predominantly black and Latinx District 16 in Brooklyn, parents fought to bring G&T programs into their schools. Nevertheless, when a new program was added, it was underfunded and low quality in part because the teachers were not well prepared.
Teachers College.
1) Felicia Mensah Will Co-Edit the Journal of Research in Science Teaching Mensah’s more recent publications include “Finding Voice and Passion: Critical Race Theory Methodology in Science Teacher Education,” published in February by the American Educational Research Journal. That article chronicles the journey of one of Mensah’s Teachers College students from childhood through her first full-time teaching appointment as an elementary school teacher in New York City.
2) Office of Teacher Education Presents “Relationships: The Difference-Maker” 2019 NYS Teacher of the Year Alhassan Susso, Sept. 19 7:00-8:30 [Open to the TC community]
3) Student Profile. Burnishing His Faculties: Music education student Camilo Suárez-Sánchez has been on the other side of the podium Indeed, his one semester at TC has already changed the way Suárez-Sánchez teaches. “I’m making better decisions by approaching music education from a critical point of view.”
4) TC’s Stephen Silverman Becomes Dean of Florida Atlantic University’s College of Education During his 21 years at TC, Silverman focused his research on teaching and learning (motor skill and attitude) in physical education … Silverman is the co-author of 18 books on teaching and research.
5) Teaching Residents @ Teachers College Fall Edition Newsletter
