GLOBAL
NLTimes. Tuition fees halved in €9.2 billion education support package Higher education students including those in a higher vocational program will only pay half of their tuition fees for the coming academic year, the caretaker Dutch Cabinet announced… A portion of the support package is also meant to be invested in specialist subject teaching, teaching assistants, and more education support staff.
Sydney Morning Herald. State’s $330 million tutoring program has begun in four out of five schools Schools can either hire tutors themselves, if students already have relationships with casual teachers, or choose from a pool of educators – including teachers or university students – who have been registered in their area.
The Star. Dong Zhong concludes its teacher training course held exclusively online for first time The United Chinese School Committees’ Association (Dong Zong) recently concluded its annual teacher training course, which had been moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic… A total of 130 new teachers participated in the course that took place over three days in February.
World Education Blog. Latin America: Countries should prioritise training teachers in the language of the community in which they teach Despite numerous national efforts, indigenous peoples still have higher illiteracy rates, lower participation in education and higher dropout rates than their non-indigenous peers. This is the result of curricula that do not reflect their language, their way of living and their knowledge.
UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. AACTE Partners with National Science Foundation to Advance Science Educator Preparation “AACTE is eager to partner with NSF to increase the pipeline of highly qualified science educators entering the nation’s secondary classrooms. Through this grant, AACTE and its members will help reduce the national shortage of teachers in this specialty”…
Atlanta Journal Constitution. Student loan forgiveness to become tax-free under COVID relief bill. The president also said he would support making community college free and for allowing families who earn $125,000 or less to send their children to state schools for free. He also said he supports eliminating interest payments and expanding debt forgiveness programs for Americans who take public service jobs, such as teaching.
Chalkbeat. Just 1 in 6 Indiana college students who study education become teachers, report finds Only 1 in 6 students who pursued bachelor’s degrees in education at state colleges and universities ended up working as teachers, according to a new report on Indiana’s teacher pipeline that followed students who entered college from 2010 to 2012. The outcomes were even starker among students of color: Just 5% of Black students who entered education programs went into teaching in Indiana classrooms…
Education Week. Top U.S. Companies: These Are the Skills Students Need in a Post-Pandemic World Teachers that offer nurturing environments and flexibility so that students feel comfortable bringing their whole self to school will be the most effective teachers in the future—producing the most engaged students.
Hechinger Report. Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis The nonprofit Teach Kentucky has tried to fill this gap by recruiting recent college graduates to work in the district’s schools for two years while earning a master’s degree in education. Many of the program’s participants have no teaching experience, so the organization tries to prepare them quickly with a two-month boot camp during the summer.
InsideHigherEd. House Joins Senate in Approving $40B in Aid for Higher Education. The bill also includes a victory for advocates of canceling student debt. Democrats added a provision that says if debt were to be canceled, the value of the amount forgiven would not be taxed by the federal government.
LPI.
1) California Teachers and COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is Impacting the Teacher Workforce The report describes five findings based on common themes that arose in the interviews: *Teacher pipeline problems are exacerbated by state testing policies for teacher licensure and inadequate financial aid for completing preparation. *Teacher residencies and preparation partnerships have proved important to recruitment.
2) An Unparalleled Investment in U.S. Public Education: Analysis of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 States and districts can use these funds to make high-leverage investments to:… Stabilize and diversify the educator workforce and rebuild the educator pipeline.
NEA News.
1) Higher Ed Faculty and Staff Lagging in Vaccinations: While states roll out COVID-19 vaccinations, many college and university employees still lack access to this critical safety measure. Young adults on college campuses have been shown to spread the virus at increased rates, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have included college and university employees as “people who work in educational settings” with “increased risk of acquiring or transmitting” the virus.
2) Project 18: The Aspiring Ed Members Who Won Our Right to Vote: Fifty years ago, they successfully campaigned to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, allowing millions of young people to participate in democracy. The 26th Amendment passed faster than any constitutional amendment in history, but it wasn’t an easy process. It took a group of young activists—including members of Student NEA (now NEA’s Aspiring Educators)—to launch Project 18, a national campaign to change the voting age.
The 74. Study: Chicago Tutoring Program Delivered Huge Math Gains; Personalization May Be the Key Two students were assigned to each tutor for hour-long sessions during the school day; the tutors themselves were recent college graduates without teaching credentials who worked at the program over the course of nine months.
USC Rossier School of Education. USC Rossier and LAUSD announce teacher-preparation residency. The Teacher Preparation Residency is available to eligible students from USC Rossier’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) master’s program who…aspire to teach in STEM fields or Education Specialist positions. Selected candidates will receive a $30,000 scholarship from USC Rossier, and a $15,000 living stipend from LAUSD.
Washington Post. I was a well-meaning White teacher. But my harsh discipline harmed Black kids. In my training program, I’d been told to create a “culturally responsive” classroom, where a teacher tries to consider outside social factors that shape a child’s progress in school. Is this student acting out because he is hungry? Is she sleeping in class because — and this wasn’t uncommon — gunshots in her neighborhood kept her up all night?… But, days into my first-ever full-time job, my training clashed with reality. My administration told me to make a strong, strict first impression. New teachers want to be loved, but they need to be respected. (Many are told: “Don’t smile until November.”) So I rapidly became a disciplinarian.
NEW YORK STATE
Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP). Syracuse University- Accreditation Action Report: An official record of actions taken by the AAQEP Accreditation Commission;
NYSED Board of Regents. March 15 meeting agenda
NYSED. Extension of Distance Education Flexibility for the 2021-2022 Academic Year Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the NYS Education Department is extending the current distance education flexibility until the end of the 2021-2022 academic year. This extension permits institutions to continue to offer distance education courses in programs, during the 2021-2022 academic year, without triggering the need to register the programs in the distance education format, even if the 50% threshold for registration in the distance education format will be reached.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat/Lexia. Reaching Emergent Bilingual Students: Supporting Multilingual Learners During and After Remote Learning …learn how educators can support New York City’s emergent bilingual students accelerate their English language and literacy acquisition no matter where learning takes place. [Webinar March 16 3:30 ET]
City Limits. NYC Schools Can Help Close the COVID Achievement Gap With Tutoring. These tutoring services could be provided by experienced teachers, nonprofit educational workers and service corps members… Tutoring programs led by teacher or paraprofessional tutors are generally more effective than programs that use volunteer or parent tutors.
Gotham Gazette. Democratic Mayoral Candidates Stake Out Education Policy Positions On reading proficiency, Adams emphasized the importance of ensuring that children’s reading material is diverse, on top of ensuring teachers are properly trained…. Donovan said he would “open 450 new bilingual programs over four years in elementary, middle, and high schools” and create a pipeline for multilingual New Yorkers to become teachers, noting this would require partnership with CUNY. He also committed to improving educator diversity, saying, “I’m the only candidate that’s made a specific commitment to getting to two-thirds of our teachers of color within the first term.”… Stringer called for a “teacher residency program,” citing the fact that 40% of teachers leave after five years, and hiring “1,000 teachers of all different backgrounds [per year].”
Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. Induction and Beyond: March 2021 Monthly Educator Resources
