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Market Watch. Global Special Education Teacher Training Market expected to reach CAGR of 4%, Future prospect & Industry growth About Special Education Teacher Training: Special education teacher training includes various graduate, post-graduate, and certification courses offered by educational institutions and training organizations to personnel willing to teach students with special needs such as developmental disabilities and Autism.
NL Times. Pandemic Aggravating Existing Teacher Shortage, Inequality In Education: Education Council Schools with many vulnerable students also need sufficient and well-trained teachers – another reason to tackle the teacher shortage.
Phnom Penh Post. Kingdom’s teachers receive ICT training He said teacher training institutions play an important role in promoting teachers’ quality and digital skills. Soveacha said the recruitment and training of effective teachers is essential to reforming the training system and also a mechanism to secure teachers’ status as noble members of society.
South China Morning Post. Hong Kong teachers to get mandatory training on professional conduct, national development The notice on training rules issued to more than 1,000 public schools and those under the direct subsidy scheme said all newly recruited teachers would have to complete 30 hours of core training within the first three years of service to “better understand and demonstrate their professional roles, values and conduct”.
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AACTE/SCALE. edTPA® Announcements and Resources
*2020-21 edTPA® Assessment Materials Now Available for Preview
*edTPA® 2020–21 Submission and Reporting Schedule Now Available
Chalkbeat. New program will train more Black men to become Indianapolis preschool teachers Early Learning Indiana is providing funding for Educate ME to give fellows up to $1,000 in stipends throughout the two-year commitment. Once the fellows complete training and begin working, they’ll be paid $10-14 per hour. Educate ME will place fellows at Early Learning Indiana’s nine child care centers before staffing other sites.
EdWeek.
1) Coronavirus Reveals How Math Instruction Must Change, Math Groups Say Two professional math-education organizations are urging them to put equity front and center as they plan what their math classrooms will look like in the fall… Both organizations have been sounding the alarm about equity issues for years. And both released recent reports calling for closer attention to changing structures and practices that perpetuate inequitable math instruction, including eliminating tracking and ability grouping in math.
2) Georgia Eliminates the edTPA Requirement for Teacher Candidates Studies have shown that candidates of color are less likely to pass the edTPA than their white peers, prompting concerns that the licensing test is contributing to an already overwhelmingly white profession.
3) Merriam-Webster is Rewriting Its Definition of Racism. Should Teachers Change Theirs, Too? The upcoming change holds significance for classroom teachers, said Keisha Rembert, an assistant professor of education at National Louis University in Chicago, and a member of the National Council of Teachers of English’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English… “This idea of power and the systemic nature of racism is important when students are understanding a concept unfamiliar to them.”… Humanities teachers, she said, should always seek to create a “three-dimensional” understanding of how race functions in U.S. society.
InsideHigherEd. DACA Lives: Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was “arbitrary and capricious.” The decision returns the issue to the Department of Homeland Security and means the Trump administration cannot immediately end the DACA program, which provides protection against deportation and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
MySanAntonio. Laredo father, daughter graduate together Ricardo Quijano was a history major with a teaching certification as he plans to teach, and his daughter could go a similar route. She had a history major and a dance minor, and she is considering going either for her teaching certification or a master’s degree.
Washington Post.
1) A descendant of slaves explains why it’s indefensible to keep Confederate names on public schools. She taught in one. In teacher preparation, we were introduced to the concepts of implicit bias, unconscious racism and the hidden curriculums they produce. We are encouraged to confront it in ourselves, our students and our colleagues. Still, an often overlooked environmental aspect is the school name…
2) For “dreamers,” elation and relief at Supreme Court decision extending DACA … allowed them to apply for work permits, driver’s licenses, and pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Now mostly in their 20s, and working as teachers, doctors and laborers, DACA beneficiaries say the program has helped catapult their families into the middle class.
3) Netflix chief, wife pledge historic $120 million gift to Morehouse, Spelman and the United Negro College Fund “This is a liberation gift,” Thomas said, because students who graduate without debt can pursue their dreams, not chasing jobs with high salaries but becoming teachers, if they want, or going to graduate school…
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NYSED Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. April 2020 meeting minutes.
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Chalkbeat. Ideas to power next school year in NYC: How to confront trauma and foster healing Christopher Emdin — Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Teachers College, and Founder, #HipHopEd And as the nation engages in protest about the value of Black lives, educators must work to elevate Black voices, stories, and experiences across subject areas. The chief form of protest for educators is their teaching.
Teachers College.
1) A Call for New York State to Dramatically Improve Media Literacy Education: Students must be media literate to be democracy ready, asserts a new report from a coalition of civic and education organizations convened by a TC center Noting that many well-regarded media literacy lessons and curricula already are available (often at no charge), the report recommends a five-part media literacy education framework oriented toward equity:… Qualified personnel for teaching media literacy, and professional development for all teachers in teaching media literacy…
2) Graduate Gallery. On a Quest Against Illiteracy: From Colombia to the South Bronx, Victoria Henry Cervantes is giving young people access to the written word She spent much of her 20s working in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Peru as a Fulbright Fellow literacy teacher… last year brought Cervantes to Teachers College as a master’s degree student in the Literacy Specialist program…
