GLOBAL
Hungary Today. High Shortage and Workload with Low Salaries in Hungarian Public Education, EC Country Report Finds …European Commission’s (EC) recently-released 2022 Country Report concluded… More than half of graduates from teacher-education courses end up in other careers due to the high workload and low pay of teachers, especially those at the beginning of their career.
Nation.Cymru. Number of teachers in Welsh medium training has more than doubled The annual data is for entrants onto Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses that led to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in the academic year 2020/21. ITE courses that lead to QTS are the main route to becoming a teacher in Wales. The data covers student teachers at universities in Wales and also students from Wales studying across the UK.
UK.GOV. Teacher training to ensure excellent teachers in every classroom: Teacher training qualifications to be free for the next two academic years to upskill teachers across the country The National Institute of Teaching will deliver high-quality Initial Teacher Training, Early Career Framework, National Professional Qualifications and National Leaders of Education development programmes and will generate and share cutting-edge research and insights into best practice, to improve the quality of teacher training nationwide.
UNESCO. Reimagining the future: developing teachers’ research and collaborative capacity through teacher education curriculum reform …the International Commission on the Futures of Education has produced a critical report, Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education, which brings together inputs from students, teachers, governments and civil society… The report rightly recommends that teachers should more often work in teams, to better engage in knowledge production, reflection and research, and further suggests that teachers should participate in public debate, dialogue and education policy. But to achieve this, a deeper cross-national examination of teacher education curricula may be required. This could help to unpack what learning opportunities exist in teacher education programmes that can support teacher agency and solidarity as a new foundation across a number of different geographies.
UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat. Short on teachers, Michigan schools try to grow their own Eighty-five years ago, Future Teachers of America chapters began cropping up in high schools to help inspire promising students to become teachers. The group morphed into the Future Educators Association in 1994 when the professional organization Phi Delta Kappa International took it over from the National Education Association. Seven years ago, Phi Delta Kappa relaunched the program under the name Educators Rising. Seventeen schools used the curriculum that first year. Now, 11,180 high schools across the country use it.
EdPrepLab. Virtual Spring Convening 2022 [June 8 12 noon ET]
EdSource.
1) Most California teacher preparation programs flunk math instruction Most California teacher preparation programs are failing to adequately train future teachers to teach elementary school level mathematics, according to a National Council on Teacher Quality report…
2) Will California teachers be ready to teach ethnic studies? Some say training needed Currently, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing believes that high school teachers who are credentialed in social sciences are “sufficiently prepared to teach ethnic studies at the high school level,” said David DeGuire, director of the professional services division for the commission…
EdWeek. Using Virtual Teachers to Fill Vacancies: Smart Solution or Big Mistake? The companies may have “good marketing,” but they are not necessarily good for students, said Samuel Abrams, a former teacher who is now the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College… he sees these companies’ very existence as a “symptom … of a diseased school system” that refuses to pay teachers fairly, or improve their working conditions.
Hechinger Report. Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve: New laws to limit instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity leave teachers confused, scared and uncertain of their relationships with some of their most vulnerable students
Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.” Enrollment in traditional teacher-preparation programs dropped 35 percent in the decade between 2008-09 and 2018-19, and fell further during the pandemic.
KNOX Radio. UND forms Office of Teacher Recruitment/Retention In response to teacher shortages throughout North Dakota and the US… UND has announced a plan to recruit and retain qualified teachers across the state. The University is launching the Office of Teacher Recruitment and Retention, which plans to be fully staffed by this summer… and starting new initiatives in the fall. The College of Education and Human Development will head the effort.
NYPost. Before they can learn ‘antiracism,’ kids need to be literate — & too many aren’t In 2013, legislators in Mississippi provided funding to start training the state’s teachers in the science of reading… Other states, including Florida, Colorado, and Tennessee, are gesturing toward taking reading science more seriously.
Seattle Times. Learning Nisqually history starts with building a sense of place Legislation passed in 2005 set precedent for the Since Time Immemorial curriculum, but only “recommended” it be taught… In 2018, the state Legislature passed a bill requiring teacher preparation programs to include this curriculum. But schools are still lagging… There are current efforts to revive field trips and educator training — halted by the pandemic — on the Nisqually reservation.
The Conversation. Want to expand computer science education? Educate more teachers Expanding the number of computer science courses depends on educating even more teachers to teach them. But almost half of all U.S. states don’t have a plan to teach computer science at the K-12 level. There are eight states that lack certification for computer science teachers. And 27 states and the District of Columbia don’t offer incentives for higher education institutions to offer computer science teacher education programs…
Washington Post. For five years, they were co-teachers. Then they were gunned down: Fourth-grade teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles were among the victims of the school massacre in Uvalde, Tex. Both of the teachers were graduates of Sul Ross State University in Texas. Garcia earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in 1997, a university spokeswoman said, and Mireles earned the same in 2003.
NEW YORK STATE
InsideHigherEd. The Prestige Name Game: New York State is allowing colleges in the state that meet certain criteria to formally call themselves universities. Several image-conscious institutions have done just that. Universities are now defined as “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.”… William Murphy, New York State’s deputy commissioner of higher education…cited “increasing competition from institutions chartered in other states recruiting students in New York, nationally and internationally, where the term ‘college’ presents a significant marketing challenge.”
New York State Education Department. NYSED’s Office of Higher Education is seeking candidates for the following position in the Office of Teaching Initiatives: Director, Teacher Certification Location: Albany
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. April meeting minutes
NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) Aligning Entrepreneurship with Education In her pursuit of a doctorate, Kisha Howell (Ed.D. ’22, Curriculum and Teaching) forges new roads to innovative learning and inclusion Empowering Black students, Howell’s research suggests, requires a transformation of what counts as teacher education. Despite the evidence to support the value of Mississippi’s Freedom Schools, to Howell, the model design by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its practices have been historically undervalued in the development of education models to recenter marginalized people. “Teacher education is guided by academia,” explains Howell, “and as a result, the value of alternative spaces [such as the freedom schools] is often not appreciated.”
2) From Stage to School, English Language Teacher Audrey Yatdon Takes on His Most Challenging Role Yet: The actor turned educator is teaching English as a New Language in New York City high schools, as part of a new dream that applies old skills Yatdon in early 2021 entered a program that prepares students to teach English as a New Language to immigrant children. Yatdon credits two TC programs for shaping him as an educator. The Teaching Residents at Teachers College offered an actor accustomed to one-day workshops “an opportunity to spend real time with students in real classrooms”… Meanwhile, for Yatdon, the Teacher Opportunity Corps II created a “space for conversation with other teachers of color at TC and throughout the city.” The TR@TC and TOC graduate now looks forward to three additional years teaching English immigrant students in the NYC public schools as part of the state requirements.
