GLOBAL
Indian Express. Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University withholds M.Ed results over incomplete SWAYAM course The university’s decision to make the course mandatory for MEd students in 2021 has sparked controversy; students claim the course was presented as optional rather than mandatory, leading to confusion
ProPakistani. HEC Announces New Equivalence for Old Associate, Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued letters to the heads of all public and private sectors universities and degree awarding institutes for the implementation of the revised Teacher Education Roadmap (TER) in line with the recommendations of the National Curriculum Review Committee in the discipline of Education.
Simon Fraser University [CAN]. Plurilingual education: an exciting new perspective Teachers need new kinds of knowledge and support, says Professor Lin: “In teacher education, we need systematically to raise critical, plurilingual and pluricultural awareness. We must also attend to teachers’ emotional, physical and cognitive well-being in plurilingual and pluricultural contexts.”
The Times of India. Calcutta HC stays enrolment for Diploma in Elementary Education course. The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday stayed enrolment for the two-year diploma in elementary education (D.El.Ed) course, the notification for which was issued by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education …
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Texas State Teacher Education Program Selected as Raising Texas Teachers Partner The Raising Texas Teachers program was launched in 2017 by the foundation, which was started by Charles Butt… an $8,000 per year scholarship to help cover the cost of attending Texas State for up to four years. The scholarships are criteria-driven and there is no limit to the number of eligible Texas State students who can be awarded.
Chalkbeat.
1) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis budget update: money for workforce development and math instruction …access to free training for jobs in education, health care, construction trades, and other sectors that have more openings than qualified workers… The $70 million in new state money that would be spent over the next two years would provide free training in early childhood education, teaching, law enforcement, fire and forestry, construction trades, advanced manufacturing, and nursing fields
2) Gov. J. B. Pritzker vows to prioritize access to child care for Illinois families in second term Pritzker said the state’s investments have funded programs such as the Carole Robertson Center’s Grow Your Own Program Workforce Initiative, which trains community members to be educators. At the press conference, Bela Moté, CEO of the Carole Robertson Center, said the center has hired more than 30 people through the program over the last 15 months.
EdWeek.
1) A New Program Will Train Teachers to Teach Climate Change, Without the ‘Doom and Gloom’ San Francisco State University … announced this fall that it is creating a Climate Justice Education Certificate for pre-K-12 teaching—part of a broader initiative to tackle the climate crisis in an equity-minded way. The four-course program will train current and future teachers to understand climate science and teach climate justice issues relevant to the communities they work with. The first full cohort of teachers is expected to start in summer 2024.
2) The 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings [incl. TC Profs S. Cohodes, S. Douglass, J. Henig, H. Levin, B. Love, A. Pallas, J. Scott-Clayton, Y. Sealey-Ruiz]
Forbes. Policymakers Should Ring In The New Year With Action To End Teacher Shortages [by L. Darling-Hammond] Create affordable pathways into the profession: … Improve teacher preparation programs and expand teacher residencies: … Provide mentors for early career teachers: …
Hechinger Report. OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem [by R. Lee, National U.] Teacher preparation programs can help build the teacher pipeline by sparking an interest in a teaching career among high school students by offering dual-credit-bearing courses in education and supporting clubs that help students understand the value of becoming a teacher and what it means to be a mentor for young children and a role model in their own community.
NYTimes.
1) Lesson Plan: A House Without a Speaker
2) How Hasidic Schools Reaped a Windfall of Special Education Funding: New York has paid companies millions of dollars to help children with disabilities in religious schools. Records show those tutors both became certified through Testing and Training International, an online firm created to help Orthodox Jews who find it difficult to attend secular colleges because of language barriers or religious customs… Some master’s programs do not recognize the degrees conferred through Testing and Training International. But since 2003, it has worked with Daemen University, an upstate college, to provide special education certifications. Students take weekly online classes and can obtain a provisional license in a few months, records show… Elizabeth Heilman, who was chairwoman of the education department at Daemen in 2019, said she discovered the program awarded master’s degrees to students who were not qualified to be special education teachers.
3) In Memphis, the Phonics Movement Comes to High School: Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Tennessee has aggressively pushed for statewide change. Last year, the state’s Republican legislature and governor, Bill Lee, passed a law that required all elementary schoolteachers be trained in a phonics-based approach, with optional literacy training for middle and high school teachers.
4) New Year, New (State) Rules: State laws take effect for bouncers in Tennessee, walkers in California, and governors in North Carolina. Here’s a roundup of several key changes across the nation. To help address a shortage of substitute teachers in public school classrooms, Illinois is allowing college students in good standing in approved teacher training programs to obtain a substitute teaching license.
Washington Post.
1) Bachelor’s degree dreams get farther out of reach for one group of students: The proportion of community college students advancing dips even lower because of a lack of advising as well as lost credits and complicated processes “We screw transfer students, and we especially screw the ones that don’t have access to the social and educational capital they need to navigate” the process, said John Fink, senior research associate at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College… Bryanna Lyons, a first-year student majoring in human development and family studies, is one of them… plans to go to URI and ultimately become a teacher. “It’s really hard to figure out if someone doesn’t tell you how to do it.”
2) Why it’s time to reinvent selective colleges — and how to do it Aware of these advantages for students and already heavily invested in online learning because of the pandemic, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where one of us works, launched a fully online degree option for full- and part-time students in the summer of 2020. In six weeks, this program attracted 50 percent more applicants, and considerably more experienced and diverse applicants…
WUSF. ‘It’s like Disney magic:’ A Rollins program turns paraprofessionals into teachers A special Pathways to Teaching program offered at Rollins College in partnership with Orange County Public Schools is making it easier for paraprofessionals to become fully accredited teachers… Graduates of the program receive their Bachelor of Arts in elementary education or a Master of Arts in teaching from Rollins College.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Education issues to watch in Albany: School funding, mental health, future of mayoral control Lawmakers have floated a tax incentive for school employees as one way to attract people to school districts, NY1 reported. Lowry pointed to “useful steps” that have already taken place, such as the state education department ending the controversial edTPA certification exam that was previously required of teaching candidates in New York.
NYSED Office of Higher Education. December Educator Preparation Newsletter
* ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF FIELD EXPERIENCES The Department is extending the alternative models of field experiences flexibility to teacher preparation programs during the 2022-2023 academic year with certain modifications, as described in a memo to Deans and Directors.
* NEW ARTS LEARNING STANDARDS RESOURCES RELEASED The Office of Standards and Instruction has released two new Arts Learning Standards resources…
NEW YORK CITY
CBS New York Men of color find purpose, fulfillment teaching in New York City classrooms The Teacher Opportunity Corp is a program at Teachers College at Columbia, also designed to increase the number of teachers from under-represented backgrounds. Jason Flowers is a recent graduate, teaching music. “I think when my students look at me, they see something that they can relate to, they see opportunity,” he said. Darius Phelps is pursuing a PhD in English Education at Teachers College. “For some of these kids, you’re more than just a teacher. You’re a dad, you’re their older brother, you’re their best friend. And for me, that’s the most fulfilling part, too,” he said.
