GLOBAL
China Daily. Required PE scores to be raised on nation’s high school entrance exams. The students are also expected to learn up to two art skills… there is still a big shortage in the number and quality of art teachers at schools, and the key to improving aesthetic education is to nurture more art teachers.
GMA News. Duterte backs bill strengthening teacher education in the country —Nograles The proposed measure seeks to enhance the professional development of teachers in the country by ensuring coherence and continuity between pre-service and in-service education of teachers.
Jewish Chronicle [UK]. Cuts to teacher training show ‘short-term’ thinking The government pays significantly towards the trainee’s salary by way of either a grant or a bursary, which range from £9,000 to £26.000… The cuts to religious education trainee teachers’ salaries are a particular blow as this is such a critical area to enable us to engage the next generation and preserve their Jewish lives and identities.
TES.
1) Forcing trainees on schools idea played down by the DfE Schools not ‘committed to initial teacher training’ could end up offering lower quality support, the DfE warns
2) Teaching ‘surge’ justifies ‘radical’ bursary cuts – DfE Maintaining bursary levels was ‘not defensible’ in light of rise in ITT applications due to Covid, teacher trainers told
UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
1) AACTE Urges Educators to Resist Attacks on Critical Race Theory in Education. AACTE and its member institutions are committed to revolutionizing education by upholding high standards in the preparation of future teachers through inclusive curriculum and evidence-based instructional strategies, modeling, and advocacy that dismantle racial oppression. AACTE members are actively working to diversify the teaching profession, address the teacher shortage, redesign curricula that reflects the needs of 21st century learners, advocate for policies that fund student teachers of color, and build social justice partnerships for strengthening the education community…
2) Complete CEEDAR Survey on Virtual Instruction. The CEEDAR Center is working on a collaborative effort to collect information from educator preparation programs across the country who are implementing effective, practice-based opportunities for teacher candidates within a virtual space.
AZCentral. Arizona voters approve Prop. 208, education tax on state’s highest earners 3% would go to scholarships for the Arizona Teachers Academy, which waives college tuition for teachers-in-training who commit to work in Arizona schools after graduation.
Chalkbeat. If Biden wins, a major ed reform group is set to push Chicago, Baltimore, Philly schools chiefs for ed secretary All are former public school teachers, too — something Biden has said is a prerequisite for the job. Jackson began her career as a high school social studies teacher before rising through the administrator ranks in Chicago. Santelises started her career with Teach for America, taught for three years in New York City, and spent time as the Baltimore district’s chief academic officer. Hite began as a marketing teacher, and was later the head of Prince George’s County schools in Maryland.
Education Week. Why This Scholar Says The Last Decade Was One of Public Education’s Most Brutal We had a war on teachers—an attack on teacher tenure, the attack on benefits, and what they’re doing in the classroom. We thought we could find grossly ineffective teachers using a statistical method and root them out and make them better. The job has gotten more expectations, less money and a lot more political heat. Some states turned them into boogeymen, and that dried up the teacher pipeline.
LPI. Closing California’s Opportunity Gap: Ensuring All Students Have Access to Fully Prepared Teachers.” [Webinar: 10:30am Nov. 12]
New York Times.
1) Are We Losing a Generation of Children to Remote Learning? What children ultimately need and what the deadening constraints of Zoom learning cannot adequately transmit is exuberance; children need to feel championed. “They need people to see what they are doing, to cheer them on, to rally them to care and respond,” Lucy Calkins, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College and one of the country’s best-known experts on literacy told me.
2) Chicago Teachers’ Strike, Longest in Decades, Ends … a vote to approve a tentative deal was noticeably split, and some teachers wanted to press on to seek steeper reductions in class sizes, more teacher preparation time and aid for special education.
3) How an Oregon Measure for Universal Preschool Could Be a National Model Another debate in early childhood policy is whether teachers should be required to have college or equivalent degrees. When they do, it’s associated with high-quality care and teaching… The Multnomah County measure requires that lead teachers have a college degree or its equivalent, and that assistants have an associate degree in child development. But it gives current teachers time and money to earn the qualifications, and includes a plan to partner with local colleges to train new teachers.
Phys.Org. Conflicts in kindergarten can reduce children’s interest in reading and math Teacher education programs may also benefit from educating teachers not only about academic content and pedagogical practices but also in strategies that build supportive relationships with children.
University Business. 4 financial constraints facing student teachers Tuition, fees and full student budget that education majors face before financial aid are each approximately $3,000 lower
Wichita Business Journal. Educating the educators: Covid-19 shifts the way colleges educate Wichita’s future teachers with new technology focus Student teachers from WSU and Friends are in classrooms around the area, seeing first-hand the challenges and opportunities that come with remote learning, hybrid learning or socially distanced, face-to-face learning.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. 2022 New York State Teacher of the Year [applications due Feb. 1, 2021]
The Saratogian. State Senate seats to be contested. A resident of Schenectady, McCalmon holds associate degrees in human services and teacher education, an undergraduate degree in history, and a graduate degree in teaching. She has been an educator for more than 10 years, a Congressional campaign manager, and a Senate campaign consultant.
