GLOBAL
Daily Mirror. Teacher Training College of Fine Arts Moves to convert historic institute to a school Sri Lanka Art Educationists Association has written to the Minister of Education Dinesh Gunawardene and State Minister Susil Premajayantha saying that a video was released to the public containing a proposal that the Teacher Training College of Fine Arts be converted to a school due to lack of teachers in the school. This is the only Teachers Training College of Fine Arts in the country at present.
Hindustan Times. Security agency warned of ‘grave threat’ prior to PM Modi’s Ferozepur rally The report predicted demonstrations organised by members of Elementary Teacher Training-Teacher Eligibility Test (ETT/TET) pass Teachers Union and Sikh Radical organizations.
National Indigenous Times (AUS). National Early Childhood Strategy announced for First Nations children Acting Minister for Education and Youth, Stuart Robert, commented that this pilot will improve quality and increase access to training and development for Indigenous educators.
UNITED STATES
Associated Press. American Indian College Fund Launches $2.25 Million Wounspekiya Unspewicakiyapi Native Teacher Education Program The American Indian College Fund is launching a two-and-a-half-year Native teacher education program at tribal colleges and universities serving Native communities across the country to support teacher recruitment, development, and retention. Funding for the program is provided by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.
EdPrep Lab. Second Annual Virtual Policy Summit Addressing Teacher Shortages: Investing in a Strong Educator Workforce [Jan 25, 2022 01:30 PM]
EdWeek. The 2022 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. TC faculty incl: J. Brooks-Gunn, S. Cohodes, C. Emdin, J. Henig, S. Horsford, H. Levin. A. Pallas. J. Scott-Clayton, Y. Sealey-Ruiz, A. S. Wells
Forbes. 7 Ways Our Intuition Can Mislead Us About Learning 1. Children don’t need systematic instruction in phonics. Evidence shows that many or even most kids do need this kind of instruction to become fluent “decoders” of written text—and fluent decoding is key to comprehension. But those who train reading teachers have generally resisted the evidence, and teachers’ intuition about what’s working can be misleading… It would certainly help if teacher-training programs disseminated accurate information, as a handful are now beginning to do.
Hechinger Report. Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers: America has long had a teacher diversity problem, and the strains of the last two years are poised to make it worse A year and a half ago, officials in Mississippi temporarily waived many of the licensure exam requirements for new teachers, as well as test score requirements for students entering teacher preparation programs… Between 2018 and 2020, the number of people of color entering educator preparation programs jumped by more than 500 percent. (The growth in the number of white candidates was about 44 percent.)
The Daily News (Longview, WA). Lower Columbia College opens applications for new groups of four-year degree students The Teacher Education program is for people seeking endorsements in elementary education, which is kindergarten through eighth grade; or early childhood education, which is preschool through third grade. There also is an option for people who want to work with young children in early care and education settings but who do not want teaching certification.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York Gov. Hochul offers first look at education priorities Hochul is proposing to speed up the teacher certification process and incentivize more people to become educators… allow teachers, counselors, social workers, and other positions with shortages to immediately begin working without waiting through the education department’s approval process… Hochul also wants to add more staffers to the department’s certification office to speed up what she described as a “lengthy” approval process. It currently takes about 16 weeks, according to the department’s website… To get more teachers into the pipeline, Hochul has proposed a new state teaching residency program. It would provide matching funding to local school districts so they can create two-year programs for graduate-level teacher candidates, who would be eligible for either reduced or free tuition at SUNY, CUNY, or partnering private colleges.
Governor Kathy Hochul. New York State of the State. Section VII: Rebuild New York’s School System and Reimagine Higher Education *Provide Incentives to Attract More Teachers and School Workers… *Accelerate the Teacher Certification Process… Create at State Teacher Residency Program… *Fund New Cohorts of the Master Teacher Program… *Upskill Teacher Support Workers to Earn Their Certifications [see p. 169ff]
NYSED Office of Higher Education December Newsletter
*Board Of Regents December Items
1) Teacher performance assessment. The Department proposed a regulatory amendment that would modify the teacher performance assessment requirement by eliminating the edTPA requirement for certification…
2) General Core in Liberal Arts and Science Requirement. The Department proposed a regulatory amendment that would remove the general education core in LAS requirement for registered teacher preparation programs…
3) Teacher Certification Study. Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands REL staff presented key findings from a study on New York State teacher shortages and certification to the Board of Regents.
4) School Counselor Bilingual Education Extension. The Board of Regents adopted a regulatory amendment that creates the Bilingual Education extension and Supplementary Bilingual Education extension for the new Initial and Professional School Counselor certificates that will begin to be issued on February 2, 2023.
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NEW YORK CITY
InsideHigherEd. Touro System Will Build New Times Square Campus Touro, a nonprofit institution of higher and professional education under Jewish auspices, will house the College of Pharmacy, New York School of Career & Applied Studies, Graduate School of Business, Graduate School of Education…. Touro said it plans to move into the new space in January 2023.
Teachers College Center for Educational Equity. Civic Education: Essential for Sustaining U.S. Democracy Webinar [Jan 21, 2022 11:00 AM]
