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Daily Post Nigeria. Teast empowers educators from all backgrounds to discover teaching jobs abroad *Tips for Non-native English Speakers Seeking Teaching Roles. Certification is Key: Having a TEFL or TESOL certification can significantly boost your chances. It shows potential employers that you’ve been trained to teach English as a foreign language.
New York Times.
1) Jamaica Fears Brain Drain as Teachers Leave for U.S. Schools …the exodus of Jamaican teachers reflected positive aspects of the country’s education system, like its 14 institutions dedicated to training teachers. Instead of poaching teachers directly, Ms. Williams suggested that countries like the United States could ease some of the pressure on Jamaica’s schools by providing scholarships to train new teachers in Jamaica, who could go on to take jobs in American schools.
2) What Most American Schools Do Wrong Finland and Estonia have professionalized education systems—they often require master’s degrees for teachers, training them in evidence-based education practices and methods for interpreting ongoing research in the field. And teachers are entrusted with a great deal of autonomy. Whereas American kindergarten has become more like first grade, with more emphasis on spelling, writing and math, Finland and Estonia make learning fun with a play-based curriculum.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Unlock Big Savings: Register Early for AACTE’s 2024 Annual Meeting. “Ascending New Heights: Propelling the Profession into the Future” Register by Nov. 1 for Best Rates. [Feb. 16-18 Aurora/Denver, CO]
2) Using ATLAS to Help Preservice Teachers to See Structures of Teaching Accomplished Teaching Learning and Schools (ATLAS) is a resource of the NBPTS. The subscription-based site contains curated teaching videos, along with supporting commentary and instructional materials, submitted as part of teaching evaluations such as the edTPA, and National Board Certification.
DisabilityScoop. Schools Nationwide Report Shortage of Special Educators The federal government is working to tackle the shortage of special education staff, with the U.S. Department of Education recently announcing a $35 million investment aimed at strengthening the workforce of special education teachers, administrators, related services providers, those at early intervention programs and university faculty preparing these specialists.
EdResearch in Action. Increasing Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Student Teaching Mentors are often not well compensated or trained and are not provided time outside the regular demands of the role, which can make teachers reluctant to serve… Teachers who experience high alignment between their student teaching placements and current job are more effective and more likely to stay in the profession…
EdWeek.
1) These Researchers Are Seeking Consensus in the Reading and Math Wars What teachers do or don’t learn from professors in their preparation programs and other respected voices in the field has consequences for their classroom practice—and ultimately for the students they teach…
2) What Is the Orton-Gillingham Method for Teaching Reading? … efforts in many states to legislate mandatory support for teacher training and instruction in these approaches. As part of this legislation, some states provide lists of approved providers of evidence-based reading methods.
Orton-Gillingham is among them, according to the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education, which trains teachers in the approach, which was once used primarily with children who have dyslexia but is now being used more broadly.
Hechinger Report. AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way: AI can serve as a tutor, help teachers plan math lessons, or write a variety of math problems geared toward different levels of instruction Teachers can also ask ChatGPT to recommend different levels of math problems for students with different mastery of the concept, she said. This is particularly helpful for teachers who are new to the profession or have students with diverse needs — special education or English language learners, Sun said.
Miami Herald. Who’s teaching our kids? These 4 charts break down K-12 teachers by education level, race, and more 1. More than half of school teachers have earned a master’s, making teachers among the most well-educated professionals…
One Million Teachers of Color (1MToC). Webinar: The Essentials for Long-term Impact in Educator Diversity Webinar attendees will have the opportunity to hear from district and CMO leaders in the “Driving Toward Diversity” cohort who took concrete steps to meaningfully advance educator diversity. [November 15th – 1:00 p.m. ET]
U.S. Dept. of Education OSEP. U.S. Department of Education Awards More Than $35 Million to Develop Personnel in Support of Children with Disabilities incl. 5-year awards to Teachers College: $1.25M for Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs (TC Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program); PLUS $1.17M for Preparation of Related Services Personnel Service Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs (TC Communication and Speech Disorders Program).
Wall Street Journal. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is an Oklahoma Story, but Educators There Might Not Teach It: Movie about murders of Osage people prompts renewed discussion of state law Teachers found to have run afoul of the law could lose their teaching licenses, and their schools could face accreditation penalties.
Word in Black. School Districts Push for Black Studies Made up of a coalition of organizations, including the Black Education Research Center at Columbia University, Black Edfluencers United, and others. These groups are responsible for the curation of the first-ever interdisciplinary Black Studies curriculum for New York City public schools. Led by Dr. Sonya Douglass, founding director of the Black Education Research Collective, the program started this year in K-12 schools. During the livestream premiere of the curriculum, she sat down with Michele Verdiner, principal at Teachers College Community School, to explain why it’s necessary for students in NYC and nationwide.
NEW YORK STATE
Fox News. New York GOP lawmakers accuse state education board of pushing antisemitic material to kids: NYSED has a history of sharing ‘anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist material,’ according to GOP lawmakers In a letter to Education Department (NYSED) Chancellor Lester Young Jr. and Commissioner Betty Rosa, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., and the GOP delegation from New York called out a video and training materials linked from a government website designed to help educators teach children about the war in Israel following Hamas’ deadly terror attacks.
Lohud | Westchester County. NYS Education Commissioner Rosa supports added power to suspend accused teachers With state lawmakers demanding reform, state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa says she’d support legislation giving her department added powers to suspend the teaching licenses of educators accused of sexual misconduct and violence.
NYSED. New York State Selected for Hunt Institute’s the Path Forward to Transform Literacy Instruction: Literacy Academy Collective and New York State Education Department to Convene Team In Partnership with SUNY, CUNY, NYC Public Schools …New York State has been chosen to participate in the third cohort of Hunt Institute’s The Path Forward for Teacher Preparation and Licensure in Early Literacy. In coordination with the New York State Education Department (NYSED), Literacy Academy Collective (LAC) has been tapped to convene the NY State Path Forward cohort team, with the aim to transform early literacy instruction in New York State by embedding the science of reading into educator preparation…
NYTimes. Corporal Punishment in Private Schools Is Outlawed in New York: The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools. Under state law, private schools must provide an education that is at least on par with what is offered in public schools. But the investigators described visiting schools and finding deficiencies in course planning and teacher training. In some cases, officials reported seeing no instruction at all in core subjects like English, math, history and science.
NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. Teaching with Purpose: Meet Newark’s Teacher of the Year, Juanita Greene Greene’s “aha!” moment began in Charlottesville, Virginia, during her first summer teaching eighth grade math, an internship opportunity she secured through her undergraduate work at the University of Virginia… She would later go on to pursue her master’s degree in the Mathematics Education program at Teachers College. “Teachers College gave me the confidence to feel like I could have a deeper understanding of high school math. It had a better sense of what goes into the curriculum, and I learned from so many other educators along the way.
The74Million. To Get STEM Education to Every Student, Train All New Teachers in Computing: City University of NY program teaches future educators to use computing concepts in a broad range of subjects, at all grade levels. Nearly one-third of the new teachers hired by the district each year graduate from CUNY… Fewer than half of CUNY’s education faculty have participated in the program to date, and its practices are only just beginning to become embedded in CUNY’s teacher education programs. As a result, most aspiring educators-in-training at CUNY do not yet receive instruction and coaching in equitable computing education practices.
