GLOBAL
Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe (ERI SEE). Study on the Teacher Education and Training Needs Analysis Systems in SEE The Study shows that the importance of the teacher education and training system is recognized by all of the economies as an important factor in the quality of teaching and learning as well as students’ achievements.
ERR.EE. Government endorses 2021 state budget: Pensions, R&D funding to increase A total of €4.7 million euros has been earmarked for moving on with the IT Academy program to develop IT curricula, facilitate the preparation of new IT teachers and support the sustainable development of said field as well as the success of the Estonian e-state.
OECD. Advancing schooling beyond coronavirus – new insights from PISA. PISA also shows the percentage of teachers fully certified by an appropriate authority as positively correlated with student performance, even after accounting for national income. Similarly, the percentage of full-time teachers in an education system is associated with greater equity in reading performance in that system, across all countries and economies.
UNESCO. World Teachers’ Day. Held annually on 5 October since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 73rd Annual Meeting-Virtual in 2021. Feb. 24-28, 2021
2) Online Teaching Curricula in Ed Prep. Prior to the pandemic, most teacher education programs prepared candidates to go into brick and mortar schools, so their emphasis on teaching online was minimal. Often, teacher candidates were taught to use technology in classrooms as a tool to convey information or allow students to seek answers. What was not being done was a wide scale effort to prepare future teachers to model and integrate online technology in their pedagogical approaches.
3) Teaching in The Time of COViD-19: State Recommendations for Educator Preparation Programs and New Teachers, Teaching in the time of COVID-19 has many challenges and has prompted states and EPPs to respond to urgent needs in the field. This report summarizes these changes and proposes recommendations to both manage the pandemic successfully and seek opportunities for innovative improvement.
EdWeek,
1) How to Use Digital Reading Programs During COVID-19. Teachers Still Matter. There’s a robust evidence base for how to teach children to read in person: Decades of research has shown that explicitly teaching students how letters correspond to spoken sounds—and teaching phonics—is the most effective way to help them learn to decode words. But there’s little evidence on how this best practice should be translated to the remote environment.
2) Special Report: Big Ideas For Confronting Racism In Education …when EdWeek Research Center in August asked teachers if they had the training and resources they needed to teach an anti-racist curriculum, just 11 percent said they did. So, even as educators see the need to equalize and improve the educational experience for Black students, they might not have the tools or the support they need to address curriculum, practices, and policies that have long denied Black students the same opportunities to thrive as their white peers.
Hechinger Report.
1) Teachers need to talk about Breonna Taylor: Teaching a Shakespearean tragedy simply won’t do when you’re confronted with real ones every day [OpEd by A. Perry] While teachers are told not to impose their political views on students, they have a moral obligation to protect students. Silence won’t protect kids; it encourages acceptance of the devaluation of life itself.
2) How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?” Too many aspiring teachers lack sufficient knowledge and preparation to guide students through these tough times [OpEd by K. Walsh] A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events. At most of these institutions, the deficiency is not about a lack of sufficient credit hours.
LPI. Home-School Partnerships Key to Supporting Students With Disabilities. Increasing federal and state investments in preparing and supporting educators to work effectively with students with disabilities and their families is key to advancing the partnerships that are essential to students’ success.
MassLive. STRONG Act would authorize $600 million in funding to support teacher residencies, help fast-track prospective educators into workforce Trahan, who represents Massachusetts’ third congressional district and is a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, joined with Congresswomen Jahana Hayes of Connecticut and Cheri Bustos of Illinois to introduce the Supporting Teachers with Residency Opportunities and New Grants (STRONG) Act.
Rand Corp. Growing Teachers from Within: Implementation, Impact, and Cost of an Alternative Teacher Preparation Program in Three Urban School Districts. The TEACh program contributed substantially to the supply of teachers in participating districts, particularly in hard-to-staff roles. TEACh teachers were also more racially diverse. They remained teaching in the district at rates comparable to those of other new teachers.
Teacher Education Podcast. Hard-Earned Recognition for the Pre-K Classroom with Tabatha Rosproy. Tabatha Rosproy, 2020 #NationalTeacheroftheYear, highlights the crucial role of early childhood education and the issues educators face in the pre-k classroom.
Washington Post. History educator: Let’s teach as if democracy depends on it — because it does. When I became a teacher, I made a commitment to create an inclusive classroom. The foundation of any teacher’s job is to stand up for their students. This makes teaching, especially in the Trump era, inherently political.
NEW YORK STATE
AACTE. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Syracuse City School District/SUNY Oswego Teacher Residency Partnership Syracuse, New York is home to a longstanding residency partnership between SUNY Oswego and Syracuse City School District (SCSD). The district and university first developed the residency with resources obtained through New York State’s Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Pilot in 2012.
Inside Higher Ed. Retirement Wave Hits Presidents Amid Pandemic. Mary Beth Labate announced Sept. 10 that she would end her tenure as president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York. She’ll step down in December of this year… Labate recalled a difficult battle with the New York State Legislature over the state’s free college tuition program, called the Excelsior Scholarship, and reshaping how the Legislature understood financial aid.
NYSED Office of Higher Education. Sept. Newsletter
BOARD OF REGENTS SEPTEMBER ITEMS
*Emergency COVID-19 certificate
*edTPA safety net.
*Accreditation.
*State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA).
CERTIFICATION UPDATES
*Student Developmental Level Coursework Requirement.
*Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Education, and Technology Education Content Core Coursework Requirement.
NEW YORK STATE TEACHER CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS (NYSTCE) TEST DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
*Safety Net for the Arts Content Specialty Tests.
*Content Specialty Test (CST) Practice Tests.
REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK ON TEACHER SUPPLY AND DEMAND PROJECT
EDTPA WEBINARS
NYSED Office of Teaching Initiatives. Theory and Techniques of Coaching (Sport Specific) Course Internship Experience Flexibility Extended. …the Department is extending the internship flexibility for the 2020-2021 academic year where course instructors may supplement the internship experience with alternative methods of instruction. However, the internship must include some virtual and/or in-person interaction with P-12 or college students.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalbkeat. I’m an assistant principal trying to make this year work. A corps of recent NYC grads would help: During this emergency, let’s tap into the talent pool that is our former students. The result would be the ability to add a significant entry to their resumes, and some would perhaps consider a career in teaching as a result, further benefiting the city… The young adults in this Graduate Corps could receive intensive training and on-site support much like I had as a NYC Teaching Fellow.
Gothamist. “Teachers Are Not Widgets”: Schools Try To Staff Up In A Mad Dash Against Time. … multiple teachers told Gothamist/WNYC they’re teaching subjects outside their certifications: An elementary school science teacher is teaching pre-K, a computer/technology teacher is teaching 4th grade, a math teacher is teaching Spanish. In a special education class that requires two teachers, a single teacher with dual certification said she’s being counted as two separate people. “It’s the Wild West, we’re totally [do-it-yourself-]ing this thing,”
Teachers College. TC Will Honor a Distinguished Group of Alumni at Its 2020 Academic Festival. The 2020 Early Career Award winners are: Benjamin Dickman (Ph.D. ’14), a K-12 New York City mathematics teacher who publishes his research on teacher education in peer-reviewed journals.
Wall Street Journal. New York City Mayor’s Advisory Council Warned of Teacher Shortage Four Months Ago : Members said schools needed more guidance in June to be ready on time. They said district leaders had been aware of staffing concerns and will deploy substitute teachers and others.
Washington Post. A chaotic, down-to-the-wire start of school in New York serves as a harbinger for other cities. But she still needs two additional teachers for in-person instruction. Until she can hire them, students who arrive at school are taking virtual classes from their classrooms under the supervision of a substitute teacher… The union that represents the city’s principals said the system needs at least 1,200 more elementary school teachers.
