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Week of August 10 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Chalkbeat. England is launching a national tutoring program. Could the U.S. follow suit?   The English government has set aside “catch-up” funds for schools, including 350 million pounds — or about $450 million — for a national tutoring program targeted at students from low-income families. That money would fund recent college graduates employed by public schools and also existing tutoring organizations. 

Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE). Six Insights on Teacher Training   All four of the teacher training programmes that our panellists had studied are vast improvements over the typical in-service training model.

UKFIET. Remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 disruption: experiences of ministries of education, teachers and teacher educators   …information derived from 52 school systems and over 9,600 English language teachers and teacher educators in more than 150 different countries.

 

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Back to School Series with ATLAS, ISTE and LPI   This August, join us for a “Back to School” webinar series … we will discuss how to apply what was learned this past spring to the upcoming academic year within higher educator preparation programs.

AACTE/LPI. Preparing educators during COVID-19: Lessons learned and new challenges for Fall 2020 Educator Preparation Laboratory (EdPrepLab) third in a series of four webinars on effective teacher and leader preparation. [Webinar Aug. 26]

Chalkbeat. Pods for all? Some districts and nonprofits are reimagining the remote learning trend    “People are hiring nannies and private tutors and college students to help care and guide their students during this period.”

Education Commission of the United States. Building a Diverse Teacher Workforce.  Efforts to recruit teachers from local communities — efforts known as grow-your-own programs— come in a variety of forms and can be geared toward recruiting both high school and college students…Supporting teacher residency programs is a somewhat less common approach states have taken to increasing the diversity of their pool of teacher candidates… Teacher candidates of color often face disproportionate barriers to entering the teaching profession.

Education Week.
1) Students in Special Education, English-Learners May Go Back to Class First. Here’s Why   Well before the coronavirus closed schools, studies determined that states struggled to develop remote learning policies for students with disabilities and that teachers were often not trained—and sometimes not willing—to use digital resources for English-learners, many of whom lack access to high-speed internet access and computers, laptops, or tablets.
2) Low Pay and High Risk: Being a Substitute Teacher During COVID-19   The national average unemployment rate is just over 10 percent, and some of those workers might be interested in subbing. For instance, she said, someone who was laid off from a STEM career would be a “wonderful candidate” to teach a science or math class.

Hechinger Report. The simple intervention that could lift kids out of ‘Covid slide’: Tutoring is more effective than other measures. But can it be expanded to support the kids who need it most?   A soon-to-be-published study by Slavin shows that teachers-in-training — along with trained, stipend-funded volunteers such as those working through AmeriCorps — are just as good at tutoring as certified educators.

InsideHigherEd. Kamala Harris Has Battled For-Profit Colleges  She also included in a plan on raising teachers’ salaries this spring additional money for HBCUs to address the underrepresentation of teachers of color.

NBC News. Amid a racial reckoning, teachers are reconsidering how history is taught  “There’s a decided push for us to really begin to re-examine our own biases and how we approach things in our classroom,” one educator said.

NYTimes. 60 Talented Educators Join The New York Times Teaching Project [incl. Nicholas Stone, Teachers College MA’14 Teaching of Social Studies]

 


NEW YORK STATE

Chalkbeat. NY Board of Regents taps its own chancellor to become interim education department commissioner

New York State Education Department. Board of Regents Appoints Dr. Betty A. Rosa as Interim Commissioner of Education   Dr. Rosa, who will resign her position as Chancellor of the Board of Regents, will assume this position with the Department on August 14… the search for the next permanent Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York has been extended. AGB Search has reposted the position and applications should be received by October 1, 2020.

Washington Post. Frances Allen, first woman to win Turing Award for contributions to computing, dies at 88   All this was heady stuff for a woman who seemed destined for a career as a high school math teacher in her hometown of Peru, N.Y… A high school teacher piqued her interest in math, and she decided to follow a similar career path. She received a teaching degree in 1954 from the New York State Teachers’ College in Albany (today SUNY at Albany). She took a job teaching math at her high school in Peru and felt she had found her calling.

 

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. Speaking Up: She lived in a country silenced by oppression. Now Erika Levy helps kids with speech disorders use “a big mouth and strong voice” — an approach that shapes her online teaching.   The speech comparison project, which helps students understand the speech acoustics and articulation that come into play in different languages and dialects, grew out of the period when Levy’s family lived in Vienna and Levy attended the American International School there.

By Dwight Manning

Associate Director for Assessment, Outreach and Programming Support, Office of Teacher Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

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