GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). 2021 ATEE General Assembly – 20 May
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). The 2021 CIES conference will take place virtually April 25 – May 2 Theme: Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts
Men’sHealth (UK). Generation Gains: Today’s young men are at a disadvantage – socially, mentally, professionally and financially … having more funding for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services [CAMHS], which is what’s supposed to help. But it can’t meet the demand. The other way is teacher training, so that teachers are trained to recognise a problem and know how to help.
The Guardian. ‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe Play was “something that’s missing from the first stage of primary school”, Martín said. “It’s very difficult to find teachers who deliberately build it into their timetables for eight-year-olds”. Forthcoming reforms were meant to put more emphasis on investigation and flexibility, she said, but “much will depend on teacher training”.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Building and Sustaining Recruitment Pathways for Black and Latino Male Teachers. In 2014, our College of Education at William Paterson University, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority Serving Institution (MSI), located in the greater New York City area, was selected as one of ten universities to participate in the AACTE Network Improvement Community (NIC), aimed at increasing the number of Black and Latino/Hispanic male teachers (BLMs). Since that time, we have been engaged in iterative cycles of plan-do-study-act (PDSA).
2) Call for Applications: A Conference to Design Simulations for Clinical Preparation of Secondary Science Teachers [deadline April 30] Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 convening grant, the purpose of this conference is to convene experts across the country to (1) identify significant gaps in the clinical preparation of science educators (2) ideate on virtual environments that help address those gaps, and (3) develop scenarios through design thinking for EPPs to implement within their programs.
3) Prepared To Teach Releases ‘3 Rs’ Reports on Sustainably Funded Teacher Preparation With over five years of work with universities, districts, and schools across the country, Prepared To Teach has developed a framework for thinking about how the field might make strong teacher preparation more affordable. Our “3 Rs” of Sustainably Funded Teacher Preparation—Reduction, Reallocation, and (Re)Investment—can help local partnerships bring high quality preparation programs within reach for more aspiring teachers.
Chalkbeat. MSU Denver wins full state approval for two majors after reading revamp Eight months after getting dinged by the State Board of Education for its approach to covering reading instruction, Metropolitan State University of Denver earned glowing praise for changes to two majors within its teacher preparation program.
Hechinger Report. Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says: National study finds Black students and low-income children don’t reap the small gains achieved by white, Asian and high-income children Virginia Roach, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, which operates programs for high achieving students, commended the study in an email. She said the disappointing results are a sign that teachers need better training to teach gifted students differently. She added that pressures to increase the number of students who pass annual state tests discourage teachers from focusing on advanced students and giving them an “optimal” challenge.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Racial Literacy: A Policy Research Brief produced by the James R. Squire Office of the National Council of Teachers of English [by TC Prof. Y. Sealey-Ruiz]. Developing the racial literacy of all teachers, but specifically preservice teachers who will teach Black and Brown youth, is significant. Preservice teacher education programs are critical sites for foregrounding the discussion of race and problematizing the ways in which the social and academic behaviors of Black and Brown students are misread.
National Review. To Combat Woke Classrooms, Go to the Source: University Education Programs [D. Buck Op-Ed] At its most egregious, schools of education push ideas such as “activist pedagogy,” which, as the name implies, would see students who will grow up to be activists deconstructing the society in which they live. In the ’90s, far before Critical Race Theory entered the common lexicon, Gloria Ladson-Billings advanced the need for “Critical Race Theory” in schools.
Seattle Times. Lawmakers divided on Washington education bill that eliminates state testing requirement for some student teachers. If the House approves the changes and Gov. Jay Inslee signs it into law, all students who graduate between 2019 and 2022 will be exempt from the edTPA requirement because of logistical challenges the pandemic created… The new amendment, however, means students who graduate after 2022 will still be required to take the test.
Washington Post. John B. King, former Obama education secretary, running for Maryland governor He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, a law degree from Yale and a doctorate in education administration from Columbia. King worked as a high school social studies teacher and a middle school principal, launched a charter school in Boston, and spent three contentious years as the top education official in New York state.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. edTPA Safety Net for Certain Candidates Who Are Impacted by the COVID-19 Crisis During the Spring 2020 through Summer 2022 Terms. Candidates who meet the eligibility requirements below for the edTPA safety net may pass the Assessment of Teaching Skills – Written (ATS-W) exam in lieu of passing the edTPA. Either version of the ATS-W exam (Elementary or Secondary) is acceptable; it is the candidate’s choice which version they want to take. To qualify, the candidate must take the ATS-W exam by September 1, 2024.
NYS Senate. Senate Bill S5666: Relates to the maximum percentage of students that can be exempted from the admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs Increases the percentage of students from any incoming class who can be exempted from the admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs from no more than fifteen percent to fifty percent.
NEW YORK CITY
New York City Council. The New York City Council’s Response to the Fiscal 2022 Preliminary Budget and Fiscal 2021 Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report Targeted Class Size Reduction–$250 million: The Fiscal 2022 Executive Budget should introduce a targeted class size reduction initiative to add 2,500 teachers and provide support to schools to reallocate school resources to lower class sizes.
NYTimes. Teachers’ Union Backs Stringer for N.Y.C. Mayor, Giving Him a Boost. Mr. Stringer’s promise to put two teachers in every elementary school classroom… also appealed to education experts who have said adding more teachers could make traditional public schools more attractive to parents..”
