GLOBAL
Evening Standard. London public and state schools unite to find science teacher amid hiring ‘crisis’ Mary Bousted, president of the National Education Union, whose members were on strike on Wednesday, said the Government missed its secondary school teacher training targets by 41 per cent this year, meaning only three out of 17 subjects have enough teachers.
Hindustan Times. Union Budget: National digital library to be set up; focus on teacher training The government will re-envision teachers’ training and develop institutes of excellence at the district level for the purpose and set up a national digital library to make available quality books digitally to help children and adolescents overcome learning losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
UNESCO.
1) 2023 SDG4 scorecard on progress towards national SDG 4 benchmarks: key findings So far three in four countries have submitted benchmarks, or national targets, to be achieved by 2030 for at least one of seven key education indicators: early childhood education attendance; out-of-school rates; completion rates; gender gaps in completion rates; minimum proficiency rates in reading and mathematics; trained teachers; and public education expenditure…
2) SDG4 scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: focus on early childhood Another case is highlighted by the percentage of primary school trained teachers (global indicator 4.c.1b)… A particular aspect of this indicator is that throughout the range of observed values, the bottom 25% of countries in each starting point range has negative change, which means that their percentage of trained teachers has been declining.
3) Webinar. Learning from PEER country profiles: The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education [Feb 15, 2023 02:00 PM Paris time]
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Ball State University to Play Major Role in Apprenticeship Supporting Indiana Educator Pipeline Ball State University will play a major role in a first-of-its-kind program in the nation centered on special education after the recent federal approval of a state registered apprenticeship supporting the educator pipeline.
ABC 13News. VDOE application approved to create registered teacher apprentice program in Virginia The Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry signed an agreement approving VDOE’s application to create a registered teacher apprentice program in the state. Virginia’s newly approved program is one of only a handful of teacher apprentice programs nationwide that meet U.S. Department of Labor and Industry standards and are eligible for funding through several federal workforce-development grants…
American Experiment. What the new teacher licensing standards mean for teacher preparation providers Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) proposed amendments to the rules governing teacher licensure in Minnesota. These changes are expected to be formally adopted later this winter or early spring and then go into effect on July 1, 2024. Unfortunately, the approved changes politicize teacher training requirements.
Arizona State Univ. Fulton Teachers College. Next Education Workforce Summit Teacher Residencies: A Promising Approach to Enhancing a High-Quality, Sustainable Workforce [Wed Feb 08, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM MST]
Austin Peay State Univ. APSU Conference on Teacher Shortage Registration [Tuesday, February 28, 2023 virtually via Zoom]
Chalkbeat. Tony Sanders named next Illinois State Superintendent of Education While the state had a teacher shortage prior to COVID-19, the pandemic exacerbated the need for more teachers in classrooms. The state launched initiatives to get more bilingual teachers into classrooms and increase the number of students of color in teacher preparation programs. Some school districts have invested in Grow Your Own programs that support new educators while they are getting licensure.
Education Trust. It’s Time to Invest in High-Quality Teacher Preparation Research demonstrates that the quality of a teacher’s preparation directly correlates with their classroom performance a classroom filled with our children, our neighbors, and our future leaders.
Education Week.
1) 4 Actions Districts and States Can Take to Increase Staff Diversity Working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions, and nonprofits that prepare educators of color or educators of any race focused on equity, change management, and identity can draw a wider pool of qualified candidates… States have additional ways to make a difference, according to the report. When renewing program licenses, for example, they can require the preparation programs to provide data on their commitment and track record of educating and placing leaders of color and the outcomes for those graduates.
2) A Bilingual Aide Explains the Value of Representation for English Learners Reach University partners with school districts in Alabama, Arkansas, California, and Louisiana to offer online bachelor’s degree programs, helping paraprofessionals become teachers while still working in a school.
3) Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School: Grades K-2 are a particularly fertile time to nurture students’ creativity Elementary teachers must be willing—and trained—to suspend the conventional notions of knowledge building and content mastery, sincerely appreciate the brilliance Black students bring to the classroom, and be willing to continue learning themselves.
4) How to Teach Black History: A Resource List
5) Once Resistant, An Alabama Town Now Sees Its English Learners as Its Future He found faculty with limited or no training on English learners frustrated at being unable to effectively teach around language barriers. Students, in turn, showed little engagement in the classroom. Teachers failed English learners almost as a default… To change hearts and minds, Grimes got more training into schools and brought in more ESL staff.
6) Students Want Climate Change Education. Most Teachers Don’t Get Enough Training Among science teachers specifically, a significant subset of the nationally representative sample, a third have never received any professional training or education on climate change. Another third said they had pursued training or research on climate change and/or how to teach it, but on their own time. Mostly, this happened outside of their preparation to teach.
Fox News.
1) Lawmakers in 10 states push to eliminate relicensing restrictions for teachers moving across state lines The idea for an Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact was first proposed by the U.S. Department of Defense and is designed, in part, to support military spouses. It would effectively allow teaching licenses to be viable across members of the compact, cutting through the current 50-state patchwork of disparate requirements.
2) Minnesota licensing board using ‘mafia tactics’ on new teachers to accept critical race theory: Experts She claimed that the entire board that came up with this Minnesota teacher licensing is politicized, being funded and promoted and lobbied by the very people that put them into office or put into office the people who appointed them, while teachers are ignored. “This is called bullying. These are mafia tactics. This is being run by a cartel,” Friedrichs said.
InsideHigherEd. A Subtle Subterfuge, an Outrage or Both?: Florida College System presidents signed a statement promising not to support any effort that “compels belief” in critical race theory on their campuses. Some professors saw the statement as a baffling and infuriating capitulation to Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who’s made no secret of his plans to purge the teaching of critical race theory—or anything that may be mistaken for critical race theory—from Florida public education.
K-12 Dive. Momentum grows for family engagement in teacher prep: A framework developed by the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement aims for greater integration. Released in December, the framework suggests educator preparation programs dedicate courses and fieldwork to family and community engagement. This work should be embedded throughout a teacher candidate’s coursework and not just in one standalone class, the guidance said.
Washington Post.
1) College enrollment stabilizing after years of steep declines, data show Business and education programs are also losing steam, with declines of 5.3 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively.
2) DeSantis aims to cut college diversity efforts; New College ousts president The governor’s proposals feed into a larger culture war he is waging across Florida, where DeSantis has signed a law limiting what professors can teach about race…
NEW YORK STATE
Center for Educational Equity. Center for Educational Equity Files Amicus Brief Supporting New Regulations on Substantial Equivalency in New York’s Nonpublic Schools The Court’s reasoning in upholding the educational regulations at issue in Jokinen deserve special attention. In that case, the regulations required that non-public kindergartens must, among other things, have “teachers whose training is substantially equivalent to that of public school teachers”; an “adequate curriculum and teacher-pupil ratio;”…
NYSED Office of Higher Education January Newsletter
* Board Of Regents January Items: a) Certification for College Professors, b) Reciprocity.
* Teacher Performance Assessment Submission Process
* SWD (All Grades) Certificate Application Posted
* NYSATE/NYACTE Virtual Question and Answer Panel
* Intent to Reissue the Teaching in Remote/Hybrid Learning Environments (TRLE) Request For Proposals
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching.
1) November Minutes
2) New York State Mentoring Standards: An Overview
3) NYS Program Guidance and Standards for Mentoring 2022
NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College Prepared to Teach. A Strong Momentum for 2023 Prepared To Teach and our partners have been busy the last two months with a ton of engagements around advancing quality teacher preparation throughout the country.
Teachers College.
1) Navigating the Risks and Rewards of ChatGPT: Both beloved and banned, the new artificial intelligence software is making waves in school districts across the county “The danger is that [educators] start relying on those tools before they have the in-depth knowledge about teaching and classroom management and lesson planning design,” TC’s Paulo Blikstein, … notes Vasudevan … Educators may not need to work against ChatGPT, but rather learn how to minimize the risks it introduces and welcome the opportunity to be critical of its use in education.
2) Studying While Black During the Jim Crow Era: A look back on how northern schools like Teachers College welcomed Black graduate students blocked from attending schools in the segregationist South Nearly 100 years later, McAllister’s trailblazing career is set to be celebrated in a forthcoming museum… “One of her sayings was that ‘Poorly prepared teachers teach poorly prepared students to become poorly prepared teachers,’” remembers cousin Bettye Gardner. “And that’s why she ultimately chose to go to Teachers College.”
