GLOBAL
CBC. Ford government revokes seniority rule for Ontario teacher hiring Some school boards have suggested the rule makes it harder for younger applicants straight out of their education degree to break into the system and constrains boards from diversifying the teaching workforce.
Marino Institute of Education (Trinity College Dublin). Virtual International Winter School: Building your Professional Identity for the Classroom [2-13 November]
Teachers College. ‘A Crisis Within a Crisis’: TC’s Mary Mendenhall and Lena Verdeli address the pandemic’s impact on efforts to support refugee education and mental health Mendenhall, Associate Professor of Practice in TC’s Department of International & Transcultural Studies, has spent years shaping new methods to prepare teachers who work with displaced populations. She lamented the pandemic’s impact on such efforts.
Voice of America News. Schools in Northern Cameroon Close as Boko Haram Steps Up Attacks …some troops have also been deployed to teach displaced students in safer areas less susceptible to Boko Haram attacks.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 2020 Teacher Quality Partnership Grantees Announced The Department of Education has awarded 23 grants administered as a of part of a pool of funding created to benefit programs including the Teaching Quality Partnership Program (TQP). Of the 10 grants awarded under Teacher Quality Partnerships program—totaling $7.3 million—six of the grantees are AACTE members.
2) Issue Brief: How Do Education Students Pay for College? There is a growing body of research suggesting that concerns about compensation generally—and about being able to repay student loans in particular—are dissuading college students from entering teaching.
Education Week. Are Aspiring Teachers Learning Classroom Management? It Varies …the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based group that advocates for more rigorous teacher preparation, has found that just 14 percent of traditional teacher-preparation programs require candidates to demonstrate their ability in five research-based classroom management strategies… NCTQ scored 979 traditional teacher-prep programs and 40 alternative programs on their approaches to classroom management. The analysis found that a third of non-traditional programs required candidates to demonstrate their ability in all five strategies.
InsideHigherEd. Is It Time for All Students to Take Ethnic Studies? With funding from the National Science Foundation, Goffney developed a rubric for assessing whether teachers are employing equitable teaching practices in their classrooms. She also developed a curriculum entitled Mathematical Knowledge for Equitable Teaching (MKET) that is used as the elementary mathematics methods course in the elementary teacher certification program focused on equity and justice.
Learning Policy Institute. Webinar—Closing California’s Opportunity Gap: Ensuring All Students Have Access to Fully-Prepared Teachers [10:30 am PT, Nov. 12]
NEA Today.
1) Local Union Steps Up Effort to Diversify Teaching Force: A grant from NEA’s EdSummer program supported a team of Connecticut educators working to recruit and retain more educators of color. CEA has a number of initiatives to help diversify the teaching profession, including awarding scholarships to students of color pursuing teaching careers and building upon the Future Educators of Diversity Clubs across the state that encourage high school students to examine teaching as a profession.
2) ‘Why is Our Expertise Not Treated the Same?’: Depending on the state, educators make between 2% and 33% less than other comparable college-educated workers. The erosion of educator pay over the years coupled with the marginalization of the profession has led to an alarming teacher shortage, Pringle said. “Overall, fewer people are entering the profession and more are leaving”.
New York Times. After the Pandemic, a Revolution in Education and Work Awaits. …the Industrial Revolution produced a world in which there were sharp distinctions between employers and employees, between educators and employers and between governments and employers and educators, “but now you’re going to see a blurring of all these lines.”.. The most critical role for K-12 educators, therefore, will be to equip young people with the curiosity and passion to be lifelong learners who feel ownership over their education.
U.S. Dept. of Education. 2020 Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients. To improve student achievement; improve the quality of new and prospective teachers by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities for new teachers; hold teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) accountable for preparing highly qualified teachers; and recruit highly qualified individuals, including minorities and individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.
Washington Post.
1) D.C. middle and high school employees asked to staff elementary classrooms in reopening plans Seven thousand of these students would receive in-person instruction from teachers. The remaining 14,000 students would participate in virtual learning from their classrooms under the supervision of an adult who is not a teacher. The school system is calling these “CARE classrooms.”
2) Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math? In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended districts eliminate tracking in middle school math.
NEW YORK STATE
AACTE. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Teacher Residency Pilot at the College of Staten Island In Summer 2019, CSI welcomed the first cohort of residents into a pilot Teacher Residency program hosted at PS 45 in Staten Island. The pilot program was the outgrowth of longstanding conversations between CSI and its P-12 partners about how to create deeper, more meaningful clinical experiences for aspiring teachers that could also serve real needs inside public schools…
NYSED Board of Regents. October meeting.
Board of Regents Acts on Sixth Series of Emergency Regulations to Ease Burdens on Educators, Students and Professionals in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Emergency Regulations Part VI and Further Regulatory Flexibility for the Reopening of Schools
NEW YORK CITY
Education Week. Lucy Calkins Says Balanced Literacy Needs ‘Rebalancing’ Early reading teachers and researchers are reacting with surprise, frustration, and optimism after the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, the organization that designs one of the most popular reading programs in the country, outlined a new approach to teaching children how to read.
Teachers College. Education for the Times: Alumnus Nick Stone Is Part of a Corps of Teachers Creating Nationwide Curricula “The New York Times and Washington Post are basically my textbooks,” says Stone, a Social Studies teacher at Millennium High School in Lower Manhattan… Stone, who earned his TC degree in Social Studies Education, acknowledges that young people for the most part do not use the sources that sustained their parents and grandparents: newspapers, magazines and network news broadcasts.
