GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe. ATEE Webinar 15 May, 4 PM CET – Online Teacher Education, Good Practices And Challenges [register by 13 May]
International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. April Newsletter
Journal of Education for Teaching. CFP Special Issue Teacher Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a Global Snapshot [intention to submit by 15, May 2020]
UNESCO. How a young teacher is making gender equality a reality in Ethiopia Tigist participated in a training about gender-responsive pedagogy (GRP) as part of a UNESCO project in Ethiopia. The training built teachers’ capacity to establish teaching and learning processes that encourage equal participation and involvement of boys and girls, and take into account boys’ and girls’ specific interests, learning styles and needs.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Beware the Solution That Is Not About the Problem: Reflections on Education and the COVID-19 Shock Kline offers the post-Katrina charterization of New Orleans schools as a case in point… All of the teachers were fired. A teacher workforce that had been predominately black was replaced with one that was predominately white, young, and barely trained.
2) Revolutionizing Education AACTE DEI Video: Promoting Equal Access to Quality Teachers In celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8, AACTE spotlights “Promoting Equal Access to Quality Teachers,” as the next segment in its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion video series
Education News. Correcting Carter’s Mistake: Removing Cabinet Status from the U.S. Department of Education At the turn of the century, the nation’s largest teachers’ union began advocating for a federal agency in order to train teachers and improve literacy rates.
Education Week. Map: Coronavirus and School Closures
Hechinger Report. The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline Summit’s summer training is full of evangelists for the platform — teachers, like Villegas, who have become “fellows” to help train their colleagues around the country on the model, and administrators who are back for the second or third year with new teachers. They share impressive results.
Mursion. May 5th webinar Recording: Let’s test drive classroom simulations: Introducing Content for Upper Elementary
NJ.com. Fewer people are studying to become teachers in N.J. Could higher pay, appreciation reverse the trend? Researchers attribute those losses to an onslaught of issues. They include low pay in comparison to other college graduates, benefits changes, high costs to become a teacher and several statewide policy changes that both added barriers to receiving a certification and made the job more difficult.
U.S. News. Missouri Teachers Virtually Educate Students About Pandemic Pat Friedrichsen, a professor of science education at MU, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help create a coronavirus curriculum aimed at informing Missouri high schoolers the science of the pandemic and its effects on everyday life.
Washington Post.
1) Navient reaches settlement in teachers’ loan forgiveness lawsuit Ten educators, backed by the American Federation of Teachers union, accused Navient of misleading them about Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The program encourages people to work in the public sector with the promise of canceling the balance of their federal student debt after a decade of payments.
2) The profound civics lesson kids are getting from the U.S. government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic The coronavirus pandemic lays bare two major weaknesses in traditional approaches to teaching civics and history — what students are expected to learn and how we measure that learning.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Cuomo taps Gates Foundation to ‘reimagine’ what schooling looks like in NY While praising educators for their work over the past seven weeks, he also said schools are still working to get computers and tablets to students, and that some teachers lacked the right training in the technology they would use to teach students at home.
NYS Board of Regents invites applications & nominations for Commissioner of Education & President of the University of the State of New York. The search is being assisted by ABG Search. Applications & nominations should be received by June 8, 2020.
New York State Education Department Office of Teaching Initiatives.
1) Emergency COVID-19 Certificate Candidates who are seeking certain certificates and extensions that require exam(s) may be eligible for the Emergency COVID-19 certificate, allowing them to work in New York State public schools or districts for one year while taking and passing the required exam(s) for the certificate or extension sought.
2) Extension of Certain Certificates Expiring on August 31, 2020 …educators who hold an Initial certificate, Initial Reissuance, Provisional certificate, or Provisional Renewal with an expiration date of August 31, 2020 will have the expiration date extended to January 31, 2021 in order to provide them with the time needed to complete the requirements for the next level certificate.
3) edTPA Safety Net for Candidates Who Are Enrolled in a New York State Registered Educator Preparation Program During the COVID-19 Crisis in the Spring 2020 and/or Summer 2020 Terms …take the ATS-W appropriate for the certificate title sought (Elementary or Secondary). Candidates seeking an “All Grades” certificate could take either the Elementary or Secondary ATS-W.
4) Acceptance of “Pass” Grades, or its Equivalent, in the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification During the Spring, Summer, or Fall 2020 Terms …the Department will allow any undergraduate or graduate level content core or pedagogical core course, completed during the Spring, Summer, or Fall 2020 terms with a “pass” grade, or its equivalent, to count towards the content core or pedagogical core semester hour requirements for certification through the Individual Evaluation pathway.
New York State Education Department Office Of Higher Education. Educator Preparation April Newsletter
Guidance For Educator Preparation Programs In Response To Covid-19
Board Of Regents Items
Graduation Measures Regional Meetings
NEW YORK CITY
Teaching Residents at Teachers College.
1) MAY 2020 Spring Edition Newsletter
2) Updated Production Report, 2012-2020 19 peer-reviewed publications, 57 global conference presentations and counting!
