GLOBAL
BBC News. Coronavirus: ‘Teacher training application rise’ during lockdown In recent years numbers training to become secondary school teachers in Wales have fallen, with some schools struggling to fill posts. But figures from the higher education admissions service Ucas show numbers applying increased during the pandemic.
Content Duniya. NEP-2020: A needed change in 21st century Education System of India
*A new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, NCFTE 2021, will be formulated by the NCTE in consultation with NCERT.
*By 2030, the minimum degree qualification for teaching will be a 4-year integrated B.Ed. degree. Stringent action will be taken against substandard stand-alone Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs).
UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat.
1) Education department grants buoy remote instruction, even as Trump and DeVos push for campuses to reopen The funds appear to be predominantly going to support remote instruction, including through virtual programs, teacher training, and technology access.
2) Indiana back-to-school teacher training: First, how are you? Connor O’Day, who student taught in Wayne Township last spring during his final semester of college, will teach completely online this fall. He said he feels comfortable with the assignment now that he’s familiar with the district’s online system…. In addition to coordinating with his fellow sixth grade teachers, O’Day is seeking advice from people with experience teaching online.
3) I’m a teacher who survived COVID-19. I’m not ready to return to the classroom. But it’s important to remember that our training as teachers focuses on providing students with an education, not all of the other roles we’ve taken on over the years. We are not child care workers or health care workers. The service we are trained to offer can and should be provided remotely until it is safe to enter school buildings.
EdWeek
1) Bitmoji Classrooms: Why Teachers Are Buzzing About Them
2) Map: Where Are Schools Open?
InsideHigherEd. New International Students Barred From All-Online Classes New U.S. immigration guidance clarifies that new international students — unlike continuing international students — cannot come to American colleges to take a “100 percent” online course load this fall.
NYTimes.
1) $25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic But as part of its fee, the Hudson Lab School will help with the paperwork, mediate parent interaction with the teacher, and align pod curriculums to state standards.
2) More Than 6,300 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Linked to U.S. Colleges
Univ. of Washington, College of Ed. Geneva Gay: A legacy of elevating multicultural education to prominence This July, Gay will retire following a 29-year career at the University of Washington College of Education in which her internationally-recognized scholarship has advanced the field in profound ways — while making clear the essential role of multicultural education in an increasingly diverse and interconnected world…“Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice,” [pub. TC Press]…now in its third edition, includes examples of culturally diverse curriculum content, programs and techniques that exemplify culturally responsive teaching, and an emphasis on positive, action-driven possibilities in student-teacher relationships.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. State’s interim education commissioner resigns, latest in string of departures But on Friday, after this was story published, department spokesperson Emily DeSantis said the Regents’ search will now continue through at least Oct. 1, citing “paramount tasks ahead.” …The board will hold an executive session — a closed-door meeting — on July 31 to discuss “personnel matters,” DeSantis said, but she did not immediately say whether Regents would discuss Tahoe’s temporary replacement or the search for a permanent commissioner.
NYSED.
New York Schools Awarded Nearly $20 Million In Critical Federal Funding To Address Covid-19 Crisis This will provide more than 190,000 teachers and educational leaders across this State with a combined 450,000 hours of professional support to implement effective practices in remote/hybrid teaching and learning which, in turn, will reach an estimated two million students.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Most teaching will remain virtual this fall. Is NYC working fast enough to improve it? To help handle students who will be learning remotely, city officials are planning to deploy teachers who are granted medical accommodations to work from home, as well as administrators across the system who have teaching licenses but are not currently working in schools.
Teachers College.
1) A Call for Reality Pedagogy: In The Atlantic, TC’s Christopher Emdin urges teachers to learn from students and embrace the chaos of the world beyond the classroom …“the best teachers use their pedagogy as protest” to “disrupt teaching norms that harm vulnerable students.” They also view students as “co-teachers” who “can see what teachers have been trained to ignore.”
2) A Grant Getter Who Can Mentor Others: Carol Scheffner Hammer is TC’s first Vice Dean for Research … boosting our track record of winning large, multimillion grants, not just among big centers like CCRC [Community College Research Center] and TR@TC [a federally funded residency program, now in its third five-year iteration, that prepares highly qualified teachers to teach in New York City public schools]
