GLOBAL
Business Post Ireland. ‘Continued school closures could affect supply of new teachers’ : Senior academic warns that if classrooms are empty in the next academic year then students will not be able to gain practical experience Professor Damian Murchan, head of the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin, said that the closure of schools last year and again this year had caused significant challenges for in-school placements for student teachers.
The National. Centre recognised as prep, primary teacher training institute The 107-year-old missionary training centre at Heldsbach in Finschhafen, Morobe, was officially recognised as a training institute for early childhood and primary school teachers on Thursday… The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELCPNG) run institution will now be transformed into an early childhood and primary school teachers training institution.
The Standard. There’s need to radically change teacher training Recently, the Ministry of Education launched the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) Taskforce report that provides the roadmap aligning education reform initiatives to the needs and expectations of the 21st century… We are looking to the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to develop content or syllabus that meets the depth and breadth inherent in curricular that answers to the needs of educational excellence.
UNESCO. Global education monitoring report, 2021, Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia: inclusion and education: all means all Countries must deploy a range of policies boosting inclusion. … Only one in two teachers in the region feels prepared to teach in mixed-ability settings and one in three in multicultural settings. The ageing of the teaching force makes this need more pressing…
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 73rd Annual Meeting February 24 – 26, 2021 Program Book
2) 2021 National Award Winners
3) Robert Floden at Michigan State University Becomes AACTE Board Chair
BET. Living the Dream: Dr. Ian Smith The Danbury, Conn. native earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, received a master’s in science education from Teachers College of Columbia University, and completed his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Education Week.
1) Building a Community for Black Male Teachers In developing its recruitment and retention efforts, Richland Two is also relying on other organizations that are trying to rebuild the pipeline of Black male teachers. One is The Call Me MISTER initiative, founded at Clemson University in South Carolina. MISTER, which stands for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models, recruits Black men to be teachers, particularly in the elementary grades.
2) Where Can We Find Lots of Tutors? Bill in Congress Would Deploy Teachers-in-Training That’s the thrust behind a bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and John Cornyn, R-Texas. The $500 million proposal would give grants to school districts and teacher preparation programs to use aspiring teachers who are finishing up their teaching program to tutor students at high-needs schools.
InsideHigherEd.
1) Biden Announces More Education Department Appointees Jordan Matsudaira, an associate professor of economics and education policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, was named deputy under secretary. Matsudaira served as chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration.
2) U of Kansas Will Cut Humanities Department The University of Kansas plans to eliminate its humanities program and undergraduate degrees in humanities and visual art education…
InsiderNJ. Booker, Cornyn, Murphy, Collins Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Access to Tutoring for Underserved Students The PATHS to Tutor Act establishes a $500 million competitive grant program for teacher-preparation programs to partner with K-12 schools to provide tutoring in underserved communities during the pandemic
Phi Delta Kappan. Who’s assessing the assessment? The cautionary tale of the edTPA The edTPA technical reports released each year state that, “all analyses and results have been informed and reviewed by a technical advisory committee [TAC] of nationally recognized psychometricians” (Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity, 2018, p. 1)… A majority of these experts responded that they were not aware of being listed as members of such a committee.
Washington Post. At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered … it’s noteworthy that the discovery of the original building might never have happened had it not been for Terry L. Meyers, an English professor at William & Mary who was interested in history… he said. “I also think, being a teacher myself, that almost all teaching, all education is to some degree subversive. It makes people start to think; it gives them a kind of independence.”
NEW YORK STATE
InsideHigherEd. Not Going Quietly: These four professors aren’t giving up their tenured positions at Canisius College without a fight — in court. Astiz, who has been with Canisius since 2002, is a professor of teacher education.
New York State Assembly. A9750 was reintroduced in the 2021 legislative session under a new print number: A5711. Relates to the cumulative grade point average admission requirement for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs…
New York State Education Department. Office of Higher Education, Educator Preparation Newsletter, February 2021
*New Commissioner of Education
*Board of Regents February Items: Definition of University, Emergency Measures in Response to COVID-19, Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification, Accreditation, Computer Science
* New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) Test Development Activities
* edTPA Virtual Learning Environment Webinars
* Teaching in Remote/Hybrid Learning Environments
Times Union. New York Regents’ first Black chancellor has a vision for public education: In panel on teacher diversity, Lester Young Jr. stresses personal connection with students To address the statewide shortage of teachers of color, Young proposes removing financial barriers and educating young people about the profession. “Lots of young people don’t see the school as a self-affirming, self-esteem-building place. So for many young people, the last place they want to be is in school, or to be a teacher … if we really want more young people to go into teaching, we need to give them good reasons,” he said.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) Growing up, I was ‘that kid.’ I became a teacher to help others like me. … Mary Hebron, a professor in the “Art of Teaching” graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College… taught us about the process of learning by doing as the heart of education. Hebron said that educators should teach children to be critical thinkers. She taught us that we were not only teachers but educational reformers. We resist the standardization and mechanization of public education, she said, and empower every one of our students to find their voices.
2) Stop calling this generation ‘lost.’ It’s hurtful — and it’s wrong: Despite what you’ve heard, my remote students are learning. [By Selena Carrión TC MA’12] All this reminds me not to allow a deficit-oriented “lost generation” narrative to deny them their success. As educators, let’s think about their triumphs and how they are still finding joy and wonder amid chaos.
NBC New York. Who Is Meisha Porter, 1st Black Woman to Lead Nation’s Largest Public School System? A product of the New York City public school system, Porter graduated from Queens Vocational and Technical High School and went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts in English concentrating in Cross Cultural Literature and Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She later received her Master’s Degree in Administration and Supervision from Mercy College… Porter has taught at CUNY as an adjunct professor and been a [Teachers College] Columbia University Cahn fellow…
Teachers College.
1) Peace Corps Fellows Program. Peace Corps 60th Anniversary. Join the New York City Peace Corps Association, National Peace Corps Association, and special guest Dr. Jeffrey Sachs for a 60th anniversary celebration honoring 60 years since President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. [March 1st, 7pm]
2) TC’s Jordan Matsudaira Is Named Deputy Under Secretary of Education The Biden-Harris administration has named Jordan Matsudaira, Associate Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College, to the position of Deputy Under Secretary of Education, with responsibility for higher education policy.
