GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). Webinar – The Secondment Of Teachers To Continuing Teacher Education: Transitions And Tensions [23 November 2022 – 15-00 CET]
News & Star (UK). Cumbria Teacher Training, Workington gets new Ofsted rating A teacher training college has said ‘significant progress’ has been made to take the centre from ‘inadequate’ to ‘requires improvement’… “The substance of the ITE curriculum is not clearly defined. This means that leaders, tutors and mentors are not sure what trainees should be learning and when this should happen.”
Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Sask. teacher uses YouTube, TikTok to teach Métis language “After I went back to school to get my teaching degree, I became interested in learning Michif. It is the language of my ancestors and through SUNTEP (Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program), I had the opportunity to start learning from Language Keepers,” he says.
The Week. Tamil Nadu: Did school education dept tweak Kalvi TV tender to favour suppliers of particular brand? Kalvi TV, though run by the state government, falls under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, an overarching programme introduced by the central government, for the school education from pre-primary to class 12, to provide equal opportunities for schooling and equitable learning outcomes. It subsumes the three schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE) under one umbrella.
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Indiana’s CREA State Team Examines Standard-Setting Process for Licensure Exams In 2021, Indiana joined the Consortium for Research Based and Equitable Assessments (CREA), an initiative by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to examine state-level certification assessment scores and their impact on promoting a diverse educator workforce… In this report, attention is given to the racist legacy of licensure exams and the problems associated with the psychometric method used to construct, validate, and set cut scores for licensure exams. More specifically, the report analyzed the demographic composition of the “subject matter experts” that were used to construct licensure exams.
Bangor Daily News. Report finds Maine hasn’t enforced law requiring schools teach Wabanaki studies In terms of training, the state has not implemented any requirements that teachers learn about Wabanaki history or culture to become certified.
Chalkbeat. How one Colorado Republican shaped what students will learn about the Holocaust Leshem said his focus now is ensuring teachers have the resources to teach the topic well… Colorado also lacks the museums, the teacher training programs, the funding, and the well-developed curriculum on the issue that other states have.
EdWeek.
1) A New Teacher at 50: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild America’s Black Teaching Workforce CREATE 65 was the brainchild of District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton. He wanted to attract more candidates of color who are often shut out of the current teacher pipeline, then provide them with a $30,000 stipend, enrollment at either Northwestern or National Louis University, and a full year of hands-on training at the elbow of an expert teacher. The model is known as a teacher residency. More than 130 such programs are now in operation across the country.
2) HBCUs to Scale Up Teacher Residency Programs The grant is part of a $60 million investment from the U.S. Department of Education to address teacher shortages and support the educator workforce. Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs has declined significantly over the past decade, and experts have raised serious concerns about the strength of the teacher pipeline.
3) Improving the Preparation Pipeline for Black Teachers: 5 Ideas From Experts Education Week asked five experts to suggest in 250 words or less how the nation’s teacher preparation pipeline can be overhauled to work better for candidates of color, especially those who are Black…
4) Schools Are Still Understaffed. Here’s How Hard-Pressed Principals Are Responding Belcastro, in Illinois, worries that some of the proposals in other states to ease teacher shortages by loosening certification requirements could hurt the profession… send the message to those already teaching that the effort they put into obtaining their certifications was pointless.
InsideHigherEd. Pinning Hopes on Future Educators: Colleges of education hope that celebrating teaching candidates with pinning ceremonies will help validate their decision to enter an increasingly demanding field. Some institutions have been conducting such ceremonies for years. The University of Central Arkansas, a midsize university in the Little Rock suburb of Conway, held its first pinning ceremony for educator candidates back in 2007.
Las Cruses Sun News. NMSU study finds decrease in New Mexico teacher vacancies “We have increased our enrollment in licensure programs across the board, expanded our partnerships with rural school districts, and continued our commitment to offering culturally and linguistically responsive curriculum, instruction, and professional development opportunities for educators at all career stages. We continue to celebrate strong successes in our efforts to generate and sustain a robust, diverse teacher education pipeline for New Mexico,” Marlatt said.
Mercer University. College of Education receives $9.6 million federal grant to diversify teaching workforce Mercer University’s Tift College of Education will partner with five local school districts on a three-year, $9.6 million U.S. Department of Education grant project aimed at strengthening the teacher pipeline in order to increase and diversify the teaching workforce. The grant project, titled “Georgia Educators Networking to Revolutionize and Transform Education (GENERATE),” will develop a residency program for career changers to obtain Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) degrees, become certified teachers in Georgia and teach in high-need content areas within partner school districts.
New York Times.
1) Teaching and Learning About Abortion Laws in the United States After Roe
2) Why You Can’t Find Child Care: 100,000 Workers Are Missing …if they are applying for lead teacher roles, submit their college degrees to the state for approval. If a degree is from a foreign country — which is often the case, she said, as many of her employees are immigrants — it must first be translated into English…a targeted visa program could draw immigrants committed to the work… States like Arizona have used existing visa programs to draw schoolteachers with advanced degrees and years of classroom experience from overseas…
Washington Post.
1) Fla. to strip licenses of K-3 teachers who discuss gender identity, sexuality The Florida Department of Education has done little to publicize its rule on teachers’ licenses. The rule appeared online around the same time that the state was taking damage from Hurricane Ian…
2) How to teach in a political firestorm Teachers still have to do their jobs amid all the turmoil in public education, and this post is aimed at helping them do that. It was written by Roxanna Elden… Her guidebook, “See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers,” is a staple in school districts and educator training programs throughout the country.
3) Most Md. voters say elementary school discussion of LGBTQ acceptance ‘inappropriate’ Despite the pushback in some areas, resources and lesson plans are becoming much more common for those who want to teach about gender identity. At least six states require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics, and the federal government recommends that schools include gender identity in their sex-education programs.
NEW YORK STATE
University of Buffalo. UB Teacher Residency Program awarded $3.5 million to expand The funding, from the U.S. Department of Education’s Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program, was announced this week by Rep. Brian Higgins (NY-26).
NEW YORK CITY
New York Post. ‘It’s scary for me’: Struggle of migrant kids in NYC schools with few Spanish speakers …struggling to cope after being placed at a New York City school where there’s a lack of bilingual teachers…instruction in Spanish is limited because there aren’t enough teachers certified in the language…Schools Chancellor David Banks admitted Thursday that the lack of bilingual teachers for migrant students across the city was a “real problem” that hadn’t yet been resolved.
New York Times. Hasidic School Is Breaking State Education Law, N.Y. Official Rules Ms. Rosa warned that previous visits to the school conducted by city officials did not prove that the school was offering instruction in all required subjects. She said that observations she received from city officials in fact indicated that the yeshiva does not offer sufficient instruction in English, social studies or science.
The University of the State of New York Education Department. In the Matter of Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem regarding substantial equivalence.
…YMAH’s current teachers are incompetent to deliver such instruction. NYCDOE did not directly address these concerns, instead indicating that teachers are evaluated using the Danielson Framework, “licensed,” and provided with professional development.…the evidence in the record is insufficient to support a finding that YMAH’s teachers are competent; i.e., that they have the appropriate knowledge, skill, and disposition to deliver substantially equivalent instruction.
