GLOBAL
Microsoft. Australia’s first NAIDOC Minecraft Education Challenge brings traditional stories to life through mixed reality and Minecraft Education Delivered in partnership with Indigenous Digital Excellence (IDX), an initiative co-founded by the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) and Telstra Foundation, the Challenge celebrates and promotes a better understanding of our shared history, and builds respect and recognition of the unique place Australia’s first peoples have in this country. By bringing together community elders and stories, cultural training, teacher training and Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, the challenge can be delivered in a culturally appropriate way in a school environment.
OECD. Global Teaching InSights: A video study of teaching
Sarajevo Times. EU continues to help BiH to improve its Education System with €2.6 million The increasingly different needs and expectations of teaching staff have led to the diversification of teacher training needs, thus the project will further improve human resources in the education sector, which will include teacher training and capacity building of education staff. The project will also help develop new study programmes and curricula for teacher training colleges based on learning outcomes, which will include modern teaching methodologies and key competencies, according to the adopted qualification and professional standards for teachers.
The World Bank. From Crèche to Classroom: Exploring Possibilities for Integration in Sri Lanka’s Early Years Services The World Bank-funded Early Childhood Development (ECD) project, being implemented island-wide by the SMWCDPPESIES, aims to enhance equitable access to and improve the quality of ECCE services. It seeks to do this by facilitating teacher training, improving facilities, devising assessments for child development, creating a common registration framework for ECD centers, and introducing a management information system for ECCE services, among other activities.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE Survey Results: How Does Your Program Compare to Others? To learn how COVID-19 and the racial injustice crisis have impacted educator preparation—and the steps EPPs are taking in response—AACTE conducted a survey this fall of its members.
2) Board of Directors Approves New Committee Appointments
3) Video Observation Technology Implementation Grant Program [Applications due Dec. 7]
Billings Gazette. Solving Montana’s teacher shortage The Montana Rural Teacher Project is determined to solve Montana’s teacher shortage by paying Montanans to pursue a Masters in Teaching and helping them land a job educating Montana’s future leaders.
EdSurge. University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy … most college programs that address early childhood education still focus on classroom teaching, not policy. Meanwhile, political support for early childhood education tends to simply create new programs rather than ensure existing ones are high-quality, equitable, sustainable and efficient, says Sharon Lynn Kagan, co-director of the National Center for Children & Families at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
EdTrust. Is Your State Prioritizing Teacher Diversity & Equity? Use the tool below to learn about promising educator diversity policy practices across the country, review each state’s educator diversity data and policy profile, and see how your state rates against other state profiles… *Invest in educator preparation programs to increase enrollment and improve the preparation of teachers of color
EdWeek.
1) ‘One of Your Own in the White House’: A History of Teacher First Ladies and Presidents Jill Biden, who holds a doctorate degree in education, has taught for more than three decades at a public high school, a psychiatric hospital for adolescents, and community colleges… Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69): Johnson earned his teaching certificate at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos). He got a teaching job in Cotulla, Texas, a small town on the Mexican border.
2) Training Bias Out of Teachers: Research Shows Little Promise So Far Student-teachers, in a separate study, were more likely to view Black children’s expressions as “angry” compared to those of white children.
InsideHigherEd. University of Wyoming Cutting 80 Jobs A handful of programs are on the chopping block, including … the master of science in teaching in chemistry; the master of arts in teaching in history; the bachelor’s program in secondary French, German and Spanish education…
National Review [OpEd] We Need to Change Teacher Training It has been evident for decades that our schools of education — those college programs that aspiring teachers must usually complete if they want to become certified — do a poor job. Those schools were long ago overrun by educational theorists who disdain knowledge but love the idea of using schools to shape young minds as they believe they should be shaped.
NYTimes. What Biden’s Election Could Mean for Student Loans. The federal government is the primary lender for students who borrow money for college and graduate school, and the Education Department directly holds more than $1.4 trillion in student debt…Mr. Biden said he would create yet another forgiveness plan for workers in schools, government and other nonprofit organizations. For each year of service, workers would be eligible to have $10,000 of their undergraduate or graduate debt erased for up to five years (for a total of $50,000).
Star Tribune. Program aims to retain aspiring American Indian teachers. In her 17 years of teaching teachers at the College of Menominee Nation, Kelli Chelberg observed how difficult it is to retain aspiring educators of American Indian descent. “Really, we need our Native teachers to teach our Native children,” she said.
The Atlantic. Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior: It’s about reaching students where they really are. In the fall of 2001, armed with an undergraduate science degree and a rushed teaching credential, I stood in front of a sea of Black and brown middle-school students in the Bronx and announced that I was their teacher… All teachers will sometimes fail. But that’s why we have to accurately see ourselves in the classroom. I suggest that teachers videotape their teaching for study, so they can self-diagnose for the racism virus they may be suffering from and spreading unintentionally.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents. November 16 meeting
*Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.3, 52.21, 57-4.5, 70.4, 74.6, 75.2, 75.5, 76.2, 79-9.3, 79-10.3, 79-11.3, 79-12.3, 80-1.13, 80-1.5, 80-3.15, 80-4.3, 83.5, 87.2, 87.5, 100.2, 100.4, 100.5, 100.6, 100.10, 100.21, 119.1, 119.5, 125.1, 151-1.4, 154-2.3, 17
*Definition of “University” in New York State
The Daily Gazette. Regents overhaul legislative priorities in face of COVID challenges Many of the issues were included in the Regents legislative proposal last year and touch on plans to expand teacher training programs, encourage educator diversity, bolster programs supporting English language learning, review the state’s graduation requirements and strengthen early childhood education options.
NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. Redefining High-Quality Early Learning — and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice: A new study co-authored by TC’s Mariana Souto-Manning puts family and community at the center of children’s learning and development *All early-childhood educators should have child development and depth of preparation in early childhood education. This practice, alongside salary/and benefit parity, will support a high-quality and diverse teaching workforce and help retain teachers in community-based centers.
