GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe [ATEE]. The programme of the ATEE 2021 Conference – online on 28 & 29 October – is now live!
London Review of Education. Call for Papers: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world [Deadline for draft papers: 30 June 2022]
Sydney Morning Herald. ‘The joy of teaching’: Plan to find 3700 new teachers to plug school shortage The NSW Department of Education will promote the joy of teaching, poach teachers from overseas and identify regional students suitable for the profession while they are still in high school as part of a multi-pronged plan to avert a looming teacher shortage.
The Guardian [Nigeria]. Improved teacher education will solve problems in the sector, says provost Provost, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin, Prof B.B Lafiaji-Okuneye, has assured that with improved teacher education, the college will help in fixing the challenges confronting the sector.
UNITED STATES
Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation [AAQEP]. Quality Assurance Symposium: March 22-24, 2022 [early bird registration through Nov. 19, 2021]
Chalkbeat. Black teacher workforce declined sharply as Michigan students left city districts — study The state education department has mounted several efforts to attract and retain more African American educators, from encouraging students to return to their home districts as teachers to supporting alternative certification programs, which offer a fast track into the teaching profession. Such programs have proved appealing to would-be educators who are Black at a time when the number of Black students entering traditional teacher prep programs has fallen. In Detroit, training programs for district support staff have already put dozens of people, many of them African American, into classrooms for the first time.
Council of Graduate Schools. Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2010 to 2020. Consistent with previous survey cycles, business (87,045), education (75,083), and health sciences (67,126) were the three largest broad fields for first- time graduate enrollment in Fall 2020. These three broad fields collectively represented 45% of first- time graduate enrollments
Hechinger Report. Funding and training is rarely available when your child care is friends, neighbors Unlike licensed child care workers, FFN providers do not need to follow state child care regulations or meet health and safety requirements — unless they receive state-funded subsidies to provide care for a lower-income child. They are also not required to undergo any formal child development training before they begin to care for children.
Milwaukee Neighborhood New Service. Trouble finding child care? You’re not alone, and here’s why. Johnson said she would like to see investment in teacher prep programs such as the Milwaukee Teacher Education Center, or MTEC, and the Literacy Lab. She said doing so would help ensure a steady supply of qualified teachers to keep early childhood education centers enrolling closer to their licensed capacity.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents Meeting, Oct. 18-19
Higher Education Subcommittee.
*Proposed Amendment to Sections 52.21, 57-4.5, and 80-1.13 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Removing the Face-to-Face Instruction Requirement for the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) Training
*Proposed Amendment to Section 50.1(l) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Definition of “University”
Feb. 2021: “University means a higher educational institution offering a range of registered undergraduate and graduate curricula in the liberal arts and sciences and doctoral programs registered in at least three of the following discipline areas: agriculture, biological sciences, business, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences.”
Oct. 2021 following public comment: “University means a higher educational institution offering a range of registered undergraduate and graduate curricula in the liberal arts and sciences, including graduate programs registered in at least three of the following discipline areas: agriculture, biological sciences, business, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, humanities, physical sciences and social sciences.”
*Recognition of the Board of Regents and Commissioner of Education as an Institutional Accrediting Agency VOTED: That the Board of Regents will not submit an application for renewal of recognition by the Secretary of Education as an institutional accrediting agency at the expiration of the current term of recognition on May 9, 2023.
NYPost. More than 20K public school staffers across New York aren’t fully certified NYSED’s Emergency COVID-19 Certificate allows applicants to “work in New York State public schools or districts for two years while taking and passing the required exam(s) for the certificate or extension sought,” according to the agency’s website. Previously, aspiring educators and other employees had to complete their certification entirely before working with students.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. With NYC’s ‘gifted’ program headed for overhaul, here’s what some experts say should come next With training and support, many teachers can meet the needs of most students in their classroom, he said. But in many of the schools and districts he works with, “it winds up being implemented really inconsistently,” especially with newer teachers.
New York Magazine. Will Ending Gifted and Talented Programs Help Desegregate Schools? “Even though Gifted and Talented education is my field of study, I can’t really bring myself to shed a tear over their demise,” said James Borland of Teachers College at Columbia University, who studies the effects of these programs on economically disadvantaged students. “For years they were bordering on disgrace. It was a really disturbing difference between the makeup of regular classrooms and the Gifted and Talented classrooms. It’s been that way for a number of years, and the department hasn’t really done anything that I’m aware of to remedy the situation. So there is no choice other than to pull the plug on the whole thing.”… Brilliant NYC… will aim to offer accelerated learning to all 65,000 kindergarteners. To do so, the mayor said, the city will retrain all of the city’s kindergarten teachers in addition to hiring new ones.
