GLOBAL
Education International. World Teachers’ Day: young teachers and the future of education in the spotlight With the world in dire need of new teachers, valuing and improving the status of the profession to make it more attractive to young people is key to ensuring equitable and inclusive quality education for all.
Eesti Rahvusringhääling [Estonia]. Planned meager salary increase in 2020 not enough, teachers say Voltri noted that recent years’ salary increases has increased young people’s interest in studying to become a teacher.
Korea Joongang Daily. Technology centers equip students, teachers with skills for the future All teacher hopefuls need to fulfill 160 hours of mandatory training before they can be sent to schools or community centers in the province or city that request their services. Although they are all exposed to key ideas like block coding and physical computing, teachers are trained in different specialties according to region.
South China Morning Post. Equal Opportunities Commission calls for increased government aid to help Hong Kong’s ethnic minority students learn Chinese more effectively Hong Kong’s anti-discrimination watchdog has called for more government funding to develop a special curriculum for ethnic minority students and to train teachers in helping non-Chinese-speaking students learn the language more effectively.
The Conversation. Teaching truth and reconciliation in Canada: The perfect place to begin is right where a teacher stands The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) at Queen’s University that we both work with qualifies graduates for Ontario College of Teachers certification and provides a focus on Indigenous education in their teacher preparation. This program has over 400 primarily Indigenous graduates. We stand in awe of the change they have made at all levels of education; we are excited to follow where this change leads next. We deeply believe in decolonized, self-determined, authentically Indigenized education.
UNESCO. World Teachers’ Day. Held annually on 5 October since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. This Recommendation sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.
UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. September 2019 – State of the States Legislative Roundup
American Indian College Fund. What Is Stem Without Roots? Many teachers have felt ill-prepared about addressing cultural knowledge in their classrooms and this often results in a void in the connection to community and impacts children’s beliefs about their abilities in STEM. If classrooms and teacher training programs focus on STEM with only one narrative for its roots, many diverse learners will be disconnected from the field.
Clemson Newsstand. Clemson’s College of Education adopts four-year undergrad advising model amid enrollment gains that defy national trends From fall 2016 to fall 2019, the college’s population of undergraduate majors increased 19 percent, making it a true anomaly on the national stage when it comes to teacher education.
Education Dive. E is for educator: Sesame Street celebrates 50 years of quality early learning A former preschool and kindergarten teacher, who now trains future elementary teachers and works with school districts as part of URI’s Guiding Education in Math and Science Network, Sweetman is just one of many educators and researchers who have played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in making sure each scene and lesson is developmentally appropriate and scientifically accurate.
Education Week.
1) Getting Reading Right. Through reporting, explainers, opinion pieces, surveys, and multimedia features, we’ll explore what teachers know about reading and where they learned it, as well as the challenges they face in bringing the research to fruition in K-2 classrooms.
2) The Education Department Is a Little More Popular Than ICE, New Survey Finds The public’s opinion of the U.S. Department of Education, while low compared to other federal agencies, is evenly split, the latest survey by the Pew Research Center finds, with almost no partisan gap between how Democrats and Republicans view the agency.
3) The State With the Most Charter Schools Just Gave Districts More Power to Reject Them Charter school teachers teaching outside of core subject areas will have five years to obtain appropriate certification.
4) What Makes a Great Teacher: Pedagogy or Personality? Generally in teacher preparation and professional development, the focus is on teaching practices and how we can understand our students as learners. But we are rarely called to look at our own identities.
Inside Higher Ed. Middle East Studies Program Comes Under Federal Scrutiny The letter accuses the center of “advancing ideological priorities” and singles out a teacher-training program in multicultural education in arguing that it uses such programs to “advance narrow, particularized views of American social issues” rather than focusing on language development or the geography, geopolitical issues or history of the Middle East.
Pearson/SCALE. 2018 edTPA Administrative Report. The disproportionate representation of White candidates and the relatively small sample sizes of other groups must be considered when making comparisons or generalizations to other samples or to the general population of teacher candidates.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Office of Higher Education. September Newsletter
- Safety Nets for the Science Content Specialty Tests
- New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (Nystce) Preparation Materials
- Edtpa Passing Score Increasing
New York Times. New York Sues Big U.S. Student Loan Servicer for Abusing Borrowers The lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James adds to a growing list of complaints by borrowers and regulators against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which operates as FedLoan and American Education Services….FedLoan has “failed miserably” as the sole servicer since 2012 for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which excuses borrowers who work in public service for 10 years from repaying their loans, provided they make some qualifying payments.
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) I never talked about race in my seven years in the classroom. Now I work to make sure future teachers do. My colleagues and I wanted to create a new kind of training space, one that would put cultural responsiveness front and center. We called it the East Harlem Teaching Residency.
2) City, labor leaders announce deal to close pay gaps for NYC pre-K teachers in Head Start programs If ratified by members, certified teachers with a master’s degree would see their pay increase by more than $15,500 by October 2021. That would bring their pay to $68,652, in-line with starting salaries for public school teachers.
New York Daily News.
1) Changing the way teachers learn can make all the difference in the classroom A June proposal by city Comptroller Scott Stringer suggests a yearlong, paid teacher “residency” program that would eventually include 1,000 people a year.
2) NYC pre-school teachers get pay raise to match what other pre-k teachers earn Certified teachers with Bachelor’s Degrees will go from $48,000 to $62,000. Non-certified teachers and support staff will get a $1,000 bonus when the new contract is ratified.
Teaching Residents at Teachers College. Now accepting applications for the 2020 Cohort. [Info sessions Oct. 10 & 24]
