GLOBAL
Baltic News Network. In Estonia most schools will teach only in state language next year Teachers whose language proficiency does not meet the requirements will no longer be eligible to teach starting from 2023/2024 school year… The minister also emphasized the importance of teacher compensation. Currently, the Ministry of Education and Research recommends that teachers with a master’s degree are paid 120% of the Estonian average wage.
Education Week. U.S. Teachers Work More Hours Than Their Global Peers. Other Countries Are Catching Up … across countries that participated in the survey, preschool, elementary, and secondary teachers earned 4 percent to 14 percent lower salaries than other college-educated workers. On average across grade spans, teachers in OECD countries earned about 90 percent of what similarly educated, adult full-time workers in their countries made, taking into account salaries and bonuses. In the United States, however, teachers on average made half of what similarly educated peers made in other fields.
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). Investing in teachers is the first step in attaining global education goals As we reflect on how to meet the 2030 Sustainable development goal 4 of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality … * Improve the quality of teacher training, from adopting minimum standards and qualifications of all teacher training institutions, providing regular in service and continuous teacher education and providing opportunities for career growth…
NSW Government News. Aspiring teachers to earn while they learn: A new program aims to recruit high-achieving graduates into teaching careers. Under the NSW Teach for Australia pathway, participants complete their Master of Teaching degree at Australian Catholic University while they are employed in a school. They receive holistic coaching, mentoring and classroom observations to provide teaching students with a continuous cycle of feedback and improvement.
UNESCO. World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Deadline Extended to Submit: Annual Meeting Proposal by October 9
2) NCES Releases Alarming Data on School Staffing As of August, when the latest NCES survey was administered to roughly 900 public campuses, close to 80% of schools with at least one job opening reported it was either very or somewhat difficult to hire fully certified special education and math teachers.
Chalkbeat.
1) A Colorado experiment aims to expand the teacher pipeline and stem turnover The Public Education & Business Coalition’s plans are part of a new initiative that relies on “pay for success” financing, a funding mechanism in which outside investors cover up-front costs and get paid back later with public money if certain goals are met… Over three years, coalition leaders seek to mint 335 new teachers, including a significant number of teachers of color.
2) Hillsdale-linked charter group withdraws applications in Tennessee …Hillsdale President Larry Arnn declared in June that teachers are “trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” The remarks, caught by a hidden camera and broadcast by Nashville WTVF reporter Phil Williams, sparked public outrage directed at both Arnn and Lee, who was on stage with Arnn and has refused to disavow his words.
Education Week.
1) Schools’ Staffing Challenges Persist in New Year “Grow your own” programs, which focus on introducing high school students to the profession and supporting them in getting the proper education and certification, can serve as long-term solutions to future staffing shortages…
2) To Fill Teacher Jobs, Community Colleges Offer New Degrees In Washington state, nine community colleges offer education degrees for teaching grade school and up. All of the programs started within the last decade… There has been pushback against community college degree programs in education in Washington and nationally, as universities with teacher education programs grapple with declines in enrollment..
3) Webinar–‘Science of Reading’: What Are the Components? More than half of states are mandating a radical shift in reading instruction—requiring teachers to adopt a “science of reading” approach to early literacy. [Oct. 12, 2pm EDT]
Hechinger Report.
1) How can we improve early science education? New report offers clues Better training for teachers could help pre- and in-service educators teach science better, report finds
2) To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators In Washington and a handful of other states, would-be teachers can now earn their degrees from community colleges, part of an effort to help diversify the profession..
InsideHigherEd. Another Call for Extending Public Service Forgiveness Waiver Extending the waiver would give federal employees, military personnel and other public service workers time to use the waiver. The Student Borrower Protection Center has estimated that 15 percent of the nine million eligible employees have filed paperwork to track their qualifying payments under PSLF…
NEA News. NEA: Real Solutions, Not Band-Aids, Will Fix Educator Shortage NEA is calling on the federal government to enact much broader student debt cancellation (up to $50,000), support educator applications for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) waiver, and encourage school districts to use their CARES Act funds (the COVID economic relief package signed into law in March 2020) to pay for or reimburse employees’ student loans.
New York Times.
1) One Way to Ease the Teacher Shortage: Pay More, Some Districts Say The mismatch in supply and demand, researchers say, points to long-neglected flaws in the teacher labor market: aspiring teachers frequently don’t know what jobs are going to be available to them when they complete their training, while states and school districts have neglected to use financial incentives to persuade candidates to take jobs and stay in them.
2) Sounding Out a Better Way to Teach Reading Critics of the science of reading deride the approach as “drill and kill,” boring children with an exclusive focus on foundational skills, a concern that Ms. Pimentel and others reject. That’s where good teachers come in, said Claude Goldenberg, an emeritus education professor at Stanford. “We need to help train, mentor and monitor teachers to help them do it in a way that’s effective,” he said.
Tennessee Lookout. Building a better pipeline by preparing educators We need to look at the Praxis exam — a test of knowledge and skills needed for classroom teaching — and see how it aligns with content, and possibly reconsider the use of EdTPA… Policymakers do not know how to measure and define a successful teacher training program. So, we should bring our institutions and educator prep programs together at the Tennessee General Assembly and give them a platform to address problems and find solutions.
The 74.
1) Facing Regional Shortages, U.S. Schools Now Employing 160,000 ‘Underqualified’ Teachers Parents, experts and traditional teacher preparation programs caution against unchecked growth of emergency and temporary licensing to fill vacancies
2) For a Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage is a Motel. But now she has to think about her future. It feels almost sacrilegious to say so, Ely said, because teachers are trained and conditioned to be all about the kids. They are praised when they are, in a way, martyrs to the profession, she said.
Washington Post.
1) An American education: Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona …U.S. schools have hired more than 1,000 Filipino teachers in the past few years. Most Filipino teachers have master’s degrees or doctorates. In the Philippines, teaching is considered a highly competitive profession, with an average of 14 applicants for each open position, and teachers are constantly evaluated and ranked against their peers.
2) Seeing through conspiracy theories and other news literacy lessons NLP has an e-learning platform, Checkology, that helps educators teach middle and high school students how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and know what to trust, what to dismiss and what to debunk.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Where do Hochul and Zeldin stand on education? She’s…attempted to address the teacher shortage by expanding alternative teacher certification programs… She also signed a popular bill that requires lower class sizes in New York City, which was celebrated by many families, the teachers union, and advocates.
New York State Education Department Board of Regents. October meeting
Higher Education Proposed Amendments
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification (public comment period begins Oct. 19)
* 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
Higher Education Consent Agenda
* Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Standards for School Building Leader Preparation Programs, Definition of “Leadership Standards” for Annual Professional Performance Reviews, and Safety Net for the School Building Leader Assessment
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Implementation Timeline for the Computer Science Statement of Continued Eligibility
New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education. Educator Preparation September Newsletter
* Board of Regents September Items: New Students with Disabilities (All Grades) Certificate; New Literacy (All Grades) Certificate
* Certification for College Professors.
* New Office of Teacher and Leader Development and Assistant Commissioner
* New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) Test Development. Content Specialty Test (CST) Frameworks. The frameworks for the new Computer Science CST, revised Physical Education CST, and new School Counselor CST are now available on the NYSTCE website.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NYC principals with enrollment shortfalls brace for more budget cuts “It would literally destroy the school’s programs, not to mention excess all the new teachers we brought in who have brought fresh energy, fresh blood and new life to the school,” said the principal, who runs one of the city’s community schools, which serve larger shares of high-needs students.
New York Times. The Influential Group Helping Eric Adams Identify a Vision for New York The proposed policy framework, which will be announced on Tuesday, would center on three areas: using day care as an economic development tool; strengthening the city’s mental health infrastructure; and developing incentives to recruit and train teachers… Tiered pay and other incentives, such as housing and signing bonuses, are some of the think tank’s initial ideas to help attract and retain more teachers.
Teachers College. How to Maximize Your Tech Game, Thanks to TC’s Digital Futures Institute: At TC’s DFI, scholars reimagine how technology can (and will) change research and learning – and the way we live As part of their commitment to public service and scholarship, DFI scholars are leveraging research and pedagogy to help early career K-12 teachers throughout New York effectively integrate tech into their lesson plans through their “Teachers Supporting Teachers” program. The program, which DFI runs in partnership with the Office of Teacher Education, launched earlier this year.
