GLOBAL
Forbes. 50 Over 50: Europe, Middle East And Africa 2023 Ursula Nold: In 2019, at 50, Nold was elected as chair of the board of Migros, Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain… Up until last 2022, she served as a lecturer at the institute for further education and media education at the University of Teacher Education in Bern.
New York Times. Inside India’s Cram City: In Kota, students from across the country pay steep fees to be tutored for elite-college admissions exams — which most of them will fail. Bansal’s teaching style was rooted in the Kumon method, which was invented by a Japanese high school teacher named Toru Kumon in the 1950s. It was predicated on mastering one topic before moving onto the next.… new coaching institutes … cropped up. They mimicked his teaching style in an attempt to capitalize on the growing demand. So many instructors were being poached or leaving to start their own centers that Bansal created a reserve of roughly 200 teachers and trainees.
Teachers College. How the TC Tunisia Project Makes an Impact: The program, led by TC’s ZhaoHong Han, is training English language teachers critical to a developing economy “Knowing English would give [Tunisians] better access to today’s global economy,” explains Han, noting that the demand for English teachers is part of a broader trend throughout the region. “We’re training teachers who are training the next workforce.”
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Biden-Harris Administration Proposes New Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) Plan The Biden-Harris Administration today announced a new proposal to reduce the cost of federal student loan payments, especially for low- and middle-income borrowers. While AACTE is generally supportive of the proposal, which according to a fact sheet will make college more affordable for perspective educators, additional steps must be taken to address the nationwide shortage of highly qualified, diverse teachers in our classrooms.
AL.com. Alabama wants to launch teacher apprenticeships for college students Alabama will be the latest state to add teaching to the list of registered apprenticeships, thanks to an executive order from Gov. Kay Ivey issued Wednesday. College students working on a bachelor’s degree to teach will be able to lead their own classroom during their final year of college, instead of student teaching under the guidance of a credentialed teacher.
Aljazeera. American schooling is broken if six-year-olds are now threats: That students and teachers must fear guns in first-grade classrooms reflects on a failed school system. As a teacher educator for those pursuing their K-12 licenses, I’ve yet to figure out how to incorporate lessons on dodging bullets into my curriculum or how to view young children as potentially dangerous. The very idea that my work requires this shift in thinking is repulsive and maddening.
Chalkbeat.
1) Departing State Superintendent Carmen Ayala looks back at her tenure, COVID challenges To help get more teachers in certain fields, we started the career and technical education pathways where you provide grants and give designation on students’ diplomas that they have completed a particular pathway. This program provides students with dual credit and early teaching experiences to help them move on towards getting a teacher license. We’re preparing for potentially more than 10,000 teachers across Illinois.
2) I recruit future teachers. I’m not always sure I’m doing the right thing. My conviction comes from piles of research showing that students are uniquely inspired when they see themselves in their teacher. But my conflict and concern come from other things we know are true about teaching. One is the sad reality that, for college students, there is greater potential for economic mobility in choosing a profession other than teaching.
3) Pa. high schools could start offering students K-12 education training next school year Starting next school year, Pennsylvania schools will have a new career and technical education option to offer students: K-12 education… the goal of the program is to expose young people to careers in education… the state Department of Education is working with the state Department of Labor and Industry to make teaching a registered apprenticeship in Pennsylvania.
ClickOrlando.com. Osceola school district hiring teachers abroad to help with teacher shortage: District is implementing certification program to help get more teachers in classrooms Aside from using the international teacher program to help bridge the gap, the school district is hoping a new initiative will help them get more teachers. “We are looking toward alternative certification teachers now, so anybody that may have a journalist degree, language arts degree, something that’s not in education, we have a great program to help them to learn how to be a great teacher with us,” Otterson said.
Education Week.
1) 19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom
2) English Teachers Should Teach More Nonfiction, National Group Says. Here’s How The NCTE statement posits that teachers are unaware of the vast body of nonfiction literature—which can encompass memoirs, essays, informational texts, literary or narrative journalism, and more—because many states don’t require prospective teachers to take courses in children’s and young adult literature in their teacher-preparation programs.
3) How Does Writing Fit Into the ‘Science of Reading’? …teaching writing is hard. Few studies document what preparation teachers receive to teach writing, but in surveys, many teachers say they received little training in their college education courses…
4) Teachers Are Not Meant to Be Martyrs: Why we need to give educators more power to shape policy Nothing in my teacher-preparation program was geared toward engaging with policy. This, too, needs to change. Teachers should not have to leave the classroom to feel like they can interact with policy. It should be part and parcel of the work of teaching.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. IUP Receives Funding from Pennsylvania Department of Education for Program to Address Teacher Shortage, Diversity in Teacher Workforce Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been selected to receive $72,049 from the Pennsylvania Department of Education through its Teacher Prep 2 Practice grant program. IUP’s funding will be used to design a culturally relevant teaching academy to diversify the teacher workforce and address the national teacher shortage. This work will take place in partnership with the Gateway School District in Monroeville, Allegheny County.
InsideHigherEd. State Budgets Are Booming. How Will Higher Ed Fare? Last year, the Iowa state Legislature considered a proposal to tie some higher education appropriations directly to workforce preparation and in-state retention… the new model would create a Workforce Grant and Incentive Program to dole out grant money to individual students on a path toward a career deemed “high-demand” by the state, like teaching, nursing or engineering.
Learning Policy Institute (LPI). Educator Preparation Laboratory Third Annual Policy Summit Building the Teacher Pipeline: Emerging Models for High-Quality Educator Preparation [Tuesday, January 24 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET]
National Center for Grow Your Own (NCGYO). National Registered Apprenticeship in Teaching Network …the National Center for Grow Your Own (NCGYO) announces the launch of the National Registered Apprenticeship in Teaching Network. This network consists of states from around the country innovating with registered apprenticeships in teaching to address educator shortages. The network will meet to discuss the design and implementation of registered apprenticeships in teaching, inform policy and practice on the national stage and provide feedback to the U.S. Department of Labor.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Position Statement on the Role of Nonfiction Literature (K-12) Perhaps these circumstances remain relatively unchanged because many states no longer require courses in children’s and young adult literature as part of their teacher preparation programs, denying teachers the opportunity to learn about this essential body of work
The 74.
1) A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training Amid labor shortages, hiring from teacher prep programs could ‘unlock’ up to a half million new tutor candidates nationwide, experts say
2) Inside the Incubator Using Apprenticeships to Redesign Teacher Preparation: Federally approved apprenticeships in teaching are less than a year old. These states are working together to roll out the nation’s first programs Being an approved apprenticeship program unlocks both state and federal dollars… How to build financially sustainable models is a recurring conversation topic at the monthly meet ups, Donaldson said.
WALB. Valdosta State University receives $750K to tackle teacher shortage Valdosta State University has received $750,000 in federal funding to address the teacher shortage in rural areas… VSU started as a teacher-training college in 1913. So, they say the fact that they’re still able to provide and support that mission in 2023 is truly amazing for them and their students.
Washington Post. The geometry teacher is a recording. The chemistry students often teach themselves: Teacher shortages are getting renewed attention this year. But in Mississippi and other Southern states, this crisis dates back more than a decade. Mississippi’s teacher shortage is long-standing, dating back to at least 1998, when state legislators passed a law that offered college scholarships for teachers-in-training in exchange for a commitment to teach in a community with a shortage. It has tried a number of initiatives to recruit teachers, including residencies where the state pays the tuition of a prospective teacher and a stipend for them to do long-term student teaching.
WDRB. Simmons College furthers resurgence, announces partnership with University of Kentucky The agreement announced Tuesday morning creates a new pre-law and teacher education program at Simmons and gives opportunities for students and staff to visit for special events and speakers at the two schools.
WIBW. Western Governors launches scholarship in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Western Governors University has launched a scholarship in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. in hopes of supporting those who have struggled to achieve educational goals… the “I Have a Dream” Scholarships are open to new and returning students in any of its 80+ undergraduate and graduate degree programs in information technology, business, K-12 teacher education and health professions.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York’s PE teacher of the year has a big YouTube following for kid fitness videos How and when did you decide to become a teacher? I was studying exercise science at Manhattan College, playing soccer for their team, while working at a children’s gymnastics studio on the side, running classes and hosting parties… I spoke to my Manhattan College career counselor Dr. Shawn Ladda. We discussed my job at the time, and that is when the lightbulb went off, and Dr. Ladda said elementary physical education! You can combine your passion and your talent for your career!
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT). Call for Article Proposals for Educator’s Voice, Vol. XV Post-Pandemic Shifts: Learning and Growing through Change [proposal deadline Apr. 1]
NEW YORK CITY
Columbia University. Columbia University Names Minouche Shafik 20th President For Shafik, teaching and research are synergistic. She believes that teaching at a top-tier university like Columbia “is informed by and imbued with research,” and that students should be thought of as “future scholars who themselves will have to develop the skills of creating knowledge and advancing their own arguments.”
