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American Association of College for Teacher Education (AACTE). San Diego State Prepares Cohort of Globally Competent Teacher Candidates Our cohort, called Generation Global, is driven by a framework… which we created based on our years of teaching in secondary schools and our experience as cohort leaders. In the one year we work with teacher candidates, we aim to help them develop as critical, community-responsive, globally-minded, curriculum-makers… Our teacher candidates are trained in global competence as defined by the California Global Education Project (CGEP)…
Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL). How best to support Kenyan higher education institutions Teacher education is a vital domain of higher education. It plays an important role in the preparation of innovative, tech-savvy, 21st century teachers and subsequently in the overall competitiveness of any country’s education system. As the main implementers of the curriculum, teachers play an enormous and indispensable role in maintaining effective and efficient education systems that promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, as stipulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).
Longview Foundation. Internationalizing Teacher Preparation Teacher Preparation for the Global Age: The Imperative for Change, highlights promising practices identified during this meeting and subsequent discussions and suggests a framework for internationalizing the education of all pre–service teachers and increasing the number of world language teachers, especially in less commonly taught languages.
United Nations. United Nations Establishes Teaching Profession High-Level Panel to Build on Outcomes of Transforming Education Summit The High-level Panel will build on the discussion on this topic held at the Transforming Education Summit and clarify the role of teachers in education transformation. They will offer recommendations to ensure that every learner has a professionally trained, qualified and well-supported teacher who can flourish in a transformed education system.
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AACTE.
1) ISTE Announces First AI Explorations Program for Educator Prep Faculty The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), a nonprofit focusing on accelerating innovation in education, announced the first cohort of fellows for its AI Exploration for Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs). The AI Explorations for EPPs Fellowship marks the first of its kind in higher education offerings. This year’s recipients were selected to participate in an eight-month learning and development opportunity.
2) WKU Hosts First Teacher Apprenticeship Summit On June 22, 2023, over 120 individuals from Kentucky school districts, community colleges, universities, and government agencies gathered on WKU’s campus to discuss teacher apprentice programs and how they can be implemented to create a pipeline of educators returning to teach in their home districts.
AOL. All the States With the Fewest Ways To Forgive Your Student Loans Mississippi: Its only forgiveness option is the Winter-Reed Teacher Loan Repayment program, which helps new traditional route teachers repay their undergraduate student loans. Mississippi was rated the worst state for paying off student debt.
Chalkbeat.
1) 9 big ideas to bolster the teaching profession and boost student learning Turn the first year in the classroom into an apprenticeship… Provide teachers with a strong curriculum… Ease the teacher certification bureaucracy… Prioritize recruiting and retaining teachers of color…
2) Illinois gives a first look at a literacy plan for schools. Here are four things to know. The draft literacy plan suggests that teacher preparation programs should help prospective teachers learn about the science behind reading, understand national and state standards for reading, find ways to help students learn how to read, and use assessments to find where students are struggling to read.
3) The teaching profession is facing a post-pandemic crisis Since 2006, the number of people earning a teaching license has plummeted — from over 320,000 to 215,000, according to an analysis of federal data by Kraft and Melissa Arnold Lyon, a professor at University at Albany. A separate analysis showed that the number of people training to become teachers has fallen from a peak of 700,000 in 2009 to just over 400,000 in 2020.
Columbia Spectator. ‘Something profound is at stake’: Bollinger reacts to Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling Twenty-one years ago, as he was stepping into his role as University President, Lee Bollinger was named the defendant in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ultimately upheld the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions practices in higher education. Now, on Bollinger’s penultimate day in the presidency, the court deemed race-conscious admissions unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 6-2 ruling against Harvard College.
Deans for Impact. New Impact Academy cohort represents 25 states, reaches 15,000 teacher-candidates annually “For the eighth year in a row, we welcome a diverse group of outstanding leaders to Impact Academy who are steadfast in their commitment to ensuring all PK-12 students access well-prepared teachers,” says Valerie Sakimura, executive director of DFI.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Education Department Announces Grants for Initiatives to Support Native Students The money will be for programs to support … the first-ever Native American Teacher Retention Initiative competition to help address the shortage of Native American educators ($2.75 million)… Cardona added that the Biden-Harris administration “is committed to addressing teacher shortages and growing and retaining a pipeline of educators who can meet the needs of Native students and provide instruction that’s grounded in appreciation for and understanding of their unique Tribal histories, traditions, languages, treaties, and cultures.”
EdSurge. This Radically Simple Solution Helps Students Feel Like They Belong in School If anyone knows the importance of belonging, it’s Columbia University instructor Marcelle Mentor, who grew up as a Black child under apartheid in South Africa. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity. She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community.
Education Week.
1) 7 Strategies to Prepare Educators to Teach With AI In a June 27 panel discussion at the International Society for Technology in Education conference, ISTE’s AI in Education Preparation Program fellows shared seven strategies that teacher preparation programs, and even school districts, can use to prepare all educators to teach with and about artificial intelligence: …
2) Can Classroom Simulators Help Teachers Improve Instruction? We use it with our undergraduate students, pre-service teachers. When you do your clinical teaching with the class or when you go observe students, you don’t necessarily see every kind of student you can see: ADHD, spectrum disorder, and ELL so that you can experience what kind of strategies might work.
3) Student-Teachers’ Reliance on Classroom Tech for Fun Hurts Learning The researchers examined how well the ISTE standards for educators and for students were scaffolded throughout the undergraduate college of education program, as well as how preservice teachers were implementing those standards, by analyzing 240 syllabi and 132 student-teacher work samples. The study found that while student-teachers were being taught how to use digital tools to create personalized learning experiences and to maximize student learning, they were not transferring those skills effectively into their classroom teaching experiences.
4) TikTok Teacher Prep: Preservice Teachers Are Getting Inspiration From the Platform … allows preservice teachers to see a strategy in action, in a short, easily digestible format. That’s a contrast from how preservice teachers usually learn in their preparation programs. For instance, a teacher educator might explain an approach for differentiating instruction and “could give examples all day, but until [preservice teachers] see it, they’re not going to really comprehend it,” said McKoy, whose research is scheduled to be presented at the International Society for Technology in Education’s annual conference this week.
Hechinger Report. The school psychologist pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it? Other recipients of the federal grants are trying different approaches. In Texas, a “grow your own” program is paying teachers to pursue degrees in counseling; in Wisconsin, a new virtual master’s program is reaching Native students on reservations located hours from a college campus.
InsideHigherEd.
1) Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Debt-Relief Plan: The 6-to-3 decision stops the Biden administration from moving forward with plans to forgive up to $20,000 in student loans for eligible Americans.
2) Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action: Justices deem admissions programs at both Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional.
New York Times.
1) Five Ways College Admissions Could Change: The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision could upend how students apply to college, and how they are judged. Here’s how. The personal essay becomes more important. Fewer schools will require SATs and ACTs. Preferences for the wealthy could end. A new measure of merit: adversity indexes. Colleges will go deep into recruiting.
2) Supreme Court Rejects Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan The proposed debt cancellation of more than $400 billion would have been one of the most expensive executive actions in U.S. history and affects tens of millions of borrowers.
Tribune-Star. Resident teachers: Program helps develop pipeline of well-prepared future educators A total of $1,020,000 has been awarded to place and train 68 resident teachers within participating school corporations. Those districts are developing a pipeline of well-prepared future educators all across Indiana, said Chris Lowery, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Office of Higher Education. Educator Preparation Newsletter, June 2023
New York State Senate. Senate Bill S2140B 2023-2024 Legislative Session Directs the commissioner of education to issue guidance to school districts for developing programs to attract underrepresented candidates into the teaching profession. Passed Senate; returned to Assembly
NEW YORK CITY
Amsterdam News. Officials announce mindful breathing practices for all NYC public Schools The DOE’s Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Preparation Program is the first Yoga Alliance-approved yoga and mindfulness program in a public school system nationwide… The Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Preparation Program is building the capacity of school staff to integrate yoga and mindfulness into DOE public schools…
Chalkbeat. Salary disparity: Teachers, directors in NYC’s free pre-K program push for more money The brewing battle comes four years after the city boosted teacher pay in community-based programs to match their public-school counterparts, eventually including non-unionized employees, in what was heralded as a huge achievement. Pay grew to $61,070 by 2021 for teachers with bachelor’s degrees and $68,652 for those with master’s degrees…
City University of New York (CUNY). Online Associate Degrees: Bilingual Childhood Education, Childhood Education, Secondary Education for Social Studies, Secondary Education Concentration
Teachers College.
1) Anna Neumann Named as Recipient of the Edward S. Evenden Professorship of Education Neumann said, “I am deeply honored to be appointed to the Edward S. Evenden Professorship, given its core emphasis on teaching and on teachers who seek to support and advance students’ and their own learning and growth across the span of their lives. The award holds special meaning for me in light of my lifetime work at a place that is, in fact, called Teachers College.”
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