GLOBAL
British Council. British Council celebrates a decade of special teacher training programmes in Maharashtra The special programmes trained nearly 2,000 master trainers and 146,000 teachers, thus benefiting 4.38 million learners in schools across Maharashtra.
Greater Kashmir. NEP-2020 | MoE notifies 4-yr integrated teacher education programme The Union Ministry of Education (MoE) has notified a four-year integrated teacher education programme (ITEP) under which the bachelor’s degree offered by the degree colleges in any stream would be integrated with the BEd course.
The Observer [Uganda]. 23 teacher training colleges to close as gov’t phases out Grade III, V qualifications At least 23 Primary Teachers Colleges (PTCs) are set to close indefinitely as the government officially phases out Grade III and Grade V teaching qualifications in favour of a bachelor’s degree in Education. There are 46 PTCs in Uganda, 23 of which are core institutions that run both pre-and in-service programmes…
UNITED STATES
AACTE. 24th Annual Meeting: “Rethink, Reshape, Reimagine, Revolutionize: Growing the Profession Post Pandemic” [March 4-6, 2022, New Orleans]
Chalkbeat.
1) Pre-K, free lunch, Pell grants: What the D.C. reconciliation plan would mean for kids and schools the proposed legislation includes a handful of programs designed to improve training for school staff and influence the new teacher pipeline. They include: *$200 million for the preparation and professional development of Native American language teachers; *$113 million for “grow your own” programs that recruit teachers “who live in and come from the communities the schools serve;” *$112 million for teacher residency programs, which are typically teacher training programs run by school districts in partnership with local universities…
2) The substitute teacher shortage we should have seen coming Though higher wages and reduced requirements for licensing may help fill near-empty substitute pools in the short term, these feel like inadequate solutions… Reversing the substitute teacher shortage is an enormous issue that requires big policy changes and restructuring at and beyond the state level…
Consortium for Research-Based and Equitable Assessments (CREA). The History, Current Use, And Impact Of Entrance and Licensure Examinations Cut Scores on the Teacher-Of-Color Pipeline: A Structural Racism Analysis The relationship between performance on teacher preparation program entrance examinations and licensure examinations and the ability to be a successful teacher has been challenged repeatedly, both in scholarly research and in courts. Nonetheless, use of these tests has proliferated and, by some estimates, has eliminated hundreds of thousands of prospective Black, Hispanic, and other teachers of color from our nation’s classrooms.
Daily Herald [Suburban Chicago]. Lower scores, high absenteeism, more teachers: A first look at how pandemic affected state’s students Among the few silver linings in the data was an increase in the number of full-time teachers statewide by almost 2,000 educators. New enrollment in teacher preparation programs also increased by 23% with a 17% increase in completion. Illinois schools also added more teachers of color last school year — 1,251 additional Latino teachers and 184 more Black teachers. Latino and Black teachers now represent a greater proportion of the teacher workforce — up from 5.6% and 5.8%, respectively, in 2016-17, to 7.9% and 6%, respectively, last year.
EducationNC. Central Carolina Teaching Initiative trains new teachers through residency The program began working with school districts who are members of CCRESA. Its goal is to train what used to be called “lateral entry” participants to become teachers in those districts. Lateral entry programs — now called “residency” — work with people who have careers or degrees in other fields to train and license them to become teachers.
Harvard Crimson. Harvard Teacher Fellows Subsumed by New HGSE Master’s Program Harvard Teacher Fellows — a teacher training initiative for students at the College — will no longer accept new cohorts of students as it is rolled into a new degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Harvard Teacher Fellows was created in 2015 to prepare students and recent alumni to teach in under-resourced urban schools. Beginning in 2022, the initiative will be subsumed by the Teaching and Teacher Leadership master’s program at the Graduate School of Education.
NJ Education Report. Q and A: You Won’t Retain Black Teachers Without Transforming Your School Culture We are here to provide resources so that school leaders know their audience and Black teachers know that they deserve authentic affirming spaces in their classrooms. We have the tools to make this happen to foster a true pipeline so students—and, really, in the end, this is about the students—are able to thrive in an environment that celebrates their authentic selves.
The Oklahoman. Much accomplished, much ahead for Oklahoma public higher education system The additional funding for teacher education programs at our public institutions will enhance efforts to recruit, develop and graduate highly qualified teacher education majors to address the critical shortage of certified teachers in our state.
St. Louis Public Radio. Substitute teachers are in short supply. Missouri hopes it’s found a solution Underprepared teachers are two to three times as likely to leave the profession, García said. Reducing qualifications for substitute teachers could have negative consequences for staffing issues, she said… To reduce turnover, García said policymakers should focus on teacher compensation, working conditions and teacher preparation and support.
Washington Post.
1) Imagine a class with 25 kids — and all of their parents insist on telling the teacher what to teach “It’s absurd for parents to tell teachers what to teach,” said Diane Ravitch, an education historian and advocate for public schools. “The result would be chaos, and in most cases would be parents telling teachers to teach the way they were taught decades earlier.” What’s more, she said, “It thoroughly discredits the teacher’s professionalism and expertise”…
2) Weeks later, servicers still waiting on Education Dept. guidance for loan-forgiveness expansion: Democratic lawmakers worry that a sloppy rollout could imperil the initiative The Education Department said it would temporarily allow all payments that borrowers made on federal student loans to count toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which cancels outstanding debt after 10 years of on-time payments. The decision allows teachers, members of the military and other public servants to sidestep the program’s complex rules to receive debt relief, but only until Oct. 31, 2022.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Office of Higher Education. October Newsletter
* Signed Accreditation Agreements
* Board of Regents Items: DASA Training, Definition of University
* Physical Education Learning Standards Presentation
NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College. Occasional Paper Series, Issue 46. The Pandemic as a Portal: On Transformative Ruptures and Possible Futures for Education [by TC Prof. M. Souto-Manning]
