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Border Mail (AUS). Teaching our teachers to solve a puzzling education conundrum Unfortunately, university-based teacher trainers have proven unwilling or unable to improve its quality… Unlike many teacher workforce issues, the quality of teacher education at universities is a federal government responsibility. The government needs to send more direct signals – even punitively pulling funding – that ITE providers must give teachers adequate training in evidence-based explicit instruction methods.
Daily Times. Learning from Finland Model They are not required to prepare students for standardized testing, giving them more flexibility to teach students the lessons they deem appropriate. Similarly, becoming a teacher in Finland is a quite competitive process, with nearly 7% of applicants accepted to the country’s top teaching program.
UNESCO. Celebrations of World Teachers’ Day 2022 [5-7 Oct.]
UNITED STATES
AACTE. 75th Annual Meeting Innovation through Inspiration: Remembering the Past to Revolutionize the Future Save 15% by December 31 [Feb. 24-26, Indianapolis, IN]
Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE). CFP: 2023 National Conference February 23-24, 2023 Indianapolis, IN [deadline Dec. 5, 2022]
Chalkbeat.
1) ‘I don’t think it’s fair’: Newark charter school community wants answers over inequities Teachers also spoke out about wages and asked board members to release a pay scale and pay information for certified and uncertified teachers.
2) Study: Teacher licensing exams shrink Indiana’s pool of Black, Hispanic teachers … according to a new report from Indiana University. The study found that Black and Hispanic prospective teachers scored up to 52 percentage points lower than their white peers on portions of the test, known as Praxis, further shrinking the pool of nonwhite educators that enter the profession even as the K-12 student population grows more diverse.
3) With COVID aid, schools try something new: giving students jobs When the Houston school district launched a peer tutoring initiative with iEducate, a local nonprofit, officials there specifically targeted students interested in education… It gives tutors “an opportunity to build those relationships with our scholars, to help with that learning loss from COVID in our schools,” said Joseph Williams, a district administrator who oversees the tutoring initiative. “It also gives them that experience to see what teaching is about, and hopefully build a pipeline of future teachers.”
EdWeek.
1) 6 Ways to Solve the Teacher Shortage With Federal Stimulus Money 4. Tuition and certification benefits. … school districts generally don’t pay for teachers to pursue a graduate degree or even cover the cost of taking the initial certification exam… Some school districts are already making moves on this front.
2) 25 Reasons to Get Excited About Teaching The profession offers a host of opportunities
3) They Recruited 100,000 STEM Teachers. Now They’re Setting Their Sights Even Higher The group 100Kin10 was formed in 2011 in response to former President Barack Obama’s call for adding 100,000 more STEM teachers to the nation’s classroom in 10 years… In November 2021, the group announced it had surpassed its goal by recruiting and training more than 108,000 STEM teachers… Now, 100Kin10 is setting a new goal—and rebranding. Now known as Beyond100K, the group aims to both prepare and retain 150,000 STEM teachers in schools with the greatest shortages. The recruitment efforts will increasingly be focused on Black, Latinx, and Native American teachers.
4) Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff [October 27 2:00 to 6:00 PM EDT]
Florida Education Association. Solving Florida’s teacher and staff shortage Long-term, starting with the next legislative session lawmakers can:.. * Boost teacher education. Support Florida’s colleges and universities as they enhance and grow their teacher education programs. * Provide financial support for college students who major in education and become teachers. * Help high school graduates become teachers. Develop and support programs that encourage them to enter the profession. * Eliminate fees for teacher certification and renewal for all teachers.
Hechinger Report. Black and white teachers from HBCUs are better math instructors, study finds … what mattered was where a teacher went to college. Both Black and white teachers trained at an historically black college or university (HBCU) helped Black students do better in math. Almost one out of 10 teachers in North Carolina graduated from an HBCU. Though not a large number, a quarter of these HBCU-trained teachers were white. During a year that a Black elementary school student had one of these HBCU-trained teachers, his or her math scores were higher.
InsideHigherEd. A Show of Solidarity Faculty members back a K-12 teacher who distributed a list of terms about race and gender to high school students. Some say more of this kind of allyship is needed as public education faces divisive concepts and book bans amid teacher shortages.
KETV Omaha. New $38 million state-of-the-art Teachers College at UNL officially opens The University of Nebraska Lincoln officially unveiled the new home for its Teachers College at a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday. The new $38 million state-of-the-art facility comes as the state and the country desperately needs qualified teachers.
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE). OECD Education at a Glance 2022: Implications for the U.S. [Oct. 3, 12pm ET]
New Jersey Monitor. Bill barring controversial teaching test gets conditional veto from governor: Governor Murphy wants lawmakers to require teaching candidates complete a different assessment The governor’s action, if approved by the Legislature, would still remove the requirement for teachers to complete the controversial edTPA — the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, administered to would-be teachers since 2009 — but under his conditional veto, the unpopular test would be replaced with broader assessments run by educator preparation programs meant to gauge performance in the classroom.
New York Times. How U.S. Textbooks Helped Instill White Supremacy: A new history by Donald Yacovone examines the racist ideas that endured for generations in educational materials. Universities, too, have had a shameful influence over the K-12 history curriculum. Harvard was the seat of the eugenics movement, whose pseudoscience was approvingly cited in teachers’ journals and textbooks. Columbia gave birth to the “Dunning school” of Civil War history…
NorthJersey.com. ‘Victory for all future educators’: NJ does away with teacher certification test — sort of The Murphy administration said the educative Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA, would no longer be required in New Jersey, but it must be replaced by a similar test to be used to certify graduates. Murphy issued a conditional veto Thursday to bill S896, which shifts the burden of certifying teachers from the state’s shoulders to the colleges that train them.
Register-Herald. New approach to coding unlocks student potential A West Virginia University instructional design expert is looking to break the code of the traditional elementary school classroom… Kale’s crusade to make coding a common tool for classroom engagement as early as kindergarten will focus first on the teachers in training at WVU’s elementary education teacher education program.
The74. Traditional University Teacher Ed Programs Face Enrollment Declines, Staff Cuts As higher ed enrollment lags, colleges try to make teacher preparation more enticing, sustainable to ward off local shortages
U.S. Dept. of Education. U.S. Department of Education Awards Over $60 Million to Strengthen the Teacher Pipeline, Increase Educator Leadership, and Support Quality Teaching and Learning to Further Address Teacher Shortage New investments under the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) program, include 22 new three-year grants totaling more than $60 million, bringing the Biden-Harris Administration’s additional support for teachers through Fiscal Year 2022 grant competitions to more than $285 million.
Washington Post. Staffing shortages continue to plague schools, data shows …approaches like Florida’s — offering jobs to veterans without college degrees. Arizona is allowing college students to instruct children.
Yidan Prize. Welcoming our 2022 Yidan Prize laureates Dr Linda Darling-Hammond, 2022 Yidan Prize for Education Research; Professor Yongxin Zhu, 2022 Yidan Prize for Education Development
NEW YORK STATE
NYACTE-NYSATE. 2022 Conference: Seeking Solidarity: Preparing Educators in and for Challenging Times [October 27-28, Gideon Putnam Resort, Saratoga Springs]
NYSED. Webinar: NYSED PLAN Pilot Webinar with Linda Darling-Hammond Topic: What is Performance-Based Learning & Assessment? [Tuesday, October 4th at 3:00 PM ET]
NYSED Board of Regents. Meeting agenda: October 3 & 4, 2022
Higher Education Subcommittee
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Definition of “Prospective School Employee”
* Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Deferment of the Declaration of a Major by Matriculated Students for State Financial Aid Purposes
NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. “Educator of the Year” for TC Student William ‘Billy’ Green: The New York State honor recognizes the high school chemistry teacher and TC doctoral student’s ability to engage his pupils His passion for education and commitment to inclusion is recognized throughout the TC community. “One thing that immediately stands out to me when I think about Billy is the enormous amount of passion he brings to the classroom space,” shares Felicia Mensah, Professor of Science Education and Green’s academic advisor. “He’s very dedicated to his craft as a teacher and it shows.”
