GLOBAL
Education International. Nicaragua: Creating happier school environments to mitigate child labour “We integrate cultural dances, painting and traditional games into our teacher training. Teachers incorporate these elements into their classes, which makes school more fun and attractive for children…”
Hong Kong University. “Educating Learners for Their Future – Not Our Past” by Professor Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD. Webinar; 17 September
Teachers Education Academy. International Teacher Training Course You can attend this course with Erasmus Plus Program grant, different grants, or your own budget. The course is open to all countries.
The Hindu. Teacher Education University gets 12 (B) status The Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University has been granted 12 (B) status by the University Grants Commission… The status would enable the institution to conduct research activities and implement new education programmes, according to the release issued by university registrar-in charge.
UNITED STATES
ABC News. Pandemic prompts changes in how future teachers are trained: The pandemic is already leaving its fingerprints on the education of future teachers Officials at Columbia University’s Teachers College say its students will continue to get practice in skills that became increasingly important during the pandemic, such as designing digital curricula or engaging kids in virtual or hybrid learning.
Chalkbeat.
1) It’s time for teachers — and textbooks — to capitalize the “B” in Black: The fight for capitalization has been going on for decades, but curriculums have been slow to adapt. [by co-author M. Hines, TC Postdoc Fellow 2017-19] As teacher educators and historians who study American education, we know that how and what we teach students about race has been controversial and contested for centuries.
2) Only a third of NJ teachers pass licensing exams the first time around. Does that reflect teacher prep programs? [first posted in Week of July 26 in TENews] Editor’s Note: This article was updated to include a point from Thomas Edison State University that the institution does not offer a teacher prep program. The update also mentions the study’s use of pass-rate data for individuals taking the licensure exam who are not enrolled in a teacher prep program.
3) Would-be teachers of color pass Pennsylvania licensing exams at lower-than-average rates. While 62% of Pennsylvania’s elementary teacher candidates pass the state licensing test on the first try, teacher candidates of color at all but a few of the state’s teacher preparation programs have lower pass rates.
Hechinger Report. Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers: Principals and superintendents in small Montana districts say it’s already hard to find good teachers without the state making it more difficult During a recent meeting of the Montana Legislature’s Education Interim Committee, Rep. Linda Reksten, R-Polson, noted that during her years as a public school superintendent, it sometimes took the state six weeks just to process an applicant’s fingerprints. In some places, the multiple hurdles to licensure slow the process so much that they have exacerbated the state’s teacher shortage.
Keloland Media. Report: Fewer teacher education graduates taking jobs in S.D. Statewide there are 120 open teaching positions, up 50 from this same time last year. Part of the reason there’s so many extra teaching jobs available is many more recent college graduates aren’t staying in South Dakota.
Omaha World-Herald. Bellevue University receives formal approval of its Secondary Teacher Education Program BU received formal approval of its Secondary Teacher Education Program from the Nebraska State Board of Education via a letter on June 17.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. As Gov. Cuomo resigns, here’s how he influenced New York schools over the last decade. “Hitching your wagon to state tests didn’t work out well because the public lost confidence in those tests and was wary about them being used for purposes other than what they were designed [for], which was measuring student performance,” said Aaron Pallas, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Cuomo ultimately reversed his stance on using state tests to evaluate teachers, and the Board of Regents placed a moratorium on using the grades 3-8 Math and ELA tests in teacher evaluations… Cuomo had previously resisted such a hike, but buckled to it under pressure, said Michael Rebell, the leading attorney on the case that created Foundation Aid and the director of the Center For Educational Equity at Teachers College.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. As schools hire teachers and counselors, a funding cliff looms New York City is hiring teachers to reduce class sizes or add co-teachers in more than 70 schools, plus hiring 500 social workers…“Now, they will have money to hire new teachers, art, music, gym, you name it,” said City Councilman Mark Treyger…
Teachers College. Christopher Emdin Wants Your “Students to See You Struggle”: In his new book Ratchetdemic, TC’s Emdin challenges educators who seek to transform their students’ lives to start by liberating their own mind Ratchetdemic is a conscious entry in a lineage of critical pedagogy that Emdin traces to Paulo Freire, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and even W. E. B. Du Bois, who was once, Emdin notes, a teacher-training graduate in Tennessee whose first rural schoolhouse job brought home how the system will extinguish young people’s organic enthusiasm in service of reinforcing the social order.