GLOBAL
Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). Teaching is learning twice Solutions to these challenges are easily identified: Training of teachers can improve such that every student is able to speak fluently in a foreign languages (i.e. English or French). Performance in schools and consequently education standards as a whole, would improve.
Education International (EI). World Teachers’ Day: EI takes the stage at UNESCO Conference and proposes five measures to make teaching a more attractive profession The official celebration of World Teachers’ Day was held on 7 October at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The conference revolved around two panel discussions: “How to attract young people to the teaching profession” and “How to retain young and novice teachers to the profession”.
New Times Rwanda. Unqualified teachers in dilemma Teachers without the required qualifications will be relieved of their duties in two months except those who still have lessons…Teachers for years have been offered a grace period to acquire the required qualifications for their posts – either a two-year diploma or bachelor’s degree and some did others not.
The Guardian. Science and language teachers to get £9,000 ‘staying on’ bonus …those with degrees in geography will see their incentives cut sharply, with those training this year receiving a bursary of £26,000 that will fall to £15,000 for those training in 2020. Bursaries for those with degrees in English or history will also fall by £3,000, after improved recruitment in those subjects.
UNITED STATES
100Kin10. Doing The Math: Building a foundation of joyful and authentic math learning for all students Two of the catalysts connect directly to foundational math: teacher preparation faculty who have expertise specifically in elementary STEM education and faculty modeling instructional strategies teachers will need to use in their classroom.
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
1) 2019 Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson Will Headline AACTE Annual Meeting [Atlanta, Feb. 28 – Mar. 1]
2) New Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients Announced TQP is the only federal initiative dedicated to strengthening and transforming educator preparation at institutions of higher education. Of the 31 grantees, 20 are AACTE members.
AACTE/SCALE. News from edTPA 2018 edTPA Annual Administrative Report; Call for Proposals; Handbooks and Templates for 2019-2020…
Cable News Network (CNN). Desperate to fill teacher shortages, US schools are hiring teachers from overseas “And they look into the Philippines, because many of our teachers are actually qualified on the subjects that they are teaching. … We are not just certified, we are very qualified.”
Education Next. How Teach for America Affects Beliefs about Education We find that TFA teachers, who all have the social and economic advantages of being high-achieving college-educated adults, are more able to see through the lens of the disadvantaged as a result of their TFA experience. They take on attitudes that are closer to those of the economic “have-nots” in the United States regarding a perceived lack of fairness of the social and political status quo, and tend to maintain these attitudes over time.
Education Post.
1) Here’s How You Should Be Talking About Christopher Columbus in Your Classroom
2) The ELL Population Is Growing, But Where Are the Teachers To Help Them Excel? Undoubtedly, we can work to achieve those goals by recruiting more bilingual and ESL educators into high-need areas and by restructuring teacher preparation programs to better meet the needs of ELL students
Education Week.
1) Here’s What Teach For America Alumni Believe About Charters, Vouchers, and Societal Inequities “The idea is that since candidates on either side of the admissions cutoff are likely to hold similar incoming beliefs, this approach allows for a rigorous, non-biased estimation of the impact of TFA participation itself,” said the study, which was published in the journal Education Next. And the differences between the two groups were significant…2) How Warren’s Year as a Young Teacher Could Factor in the 2020 Campaign If she wins both her party’s nomination and the general election, Warren would be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to have K-12 classroom teaching experience. After studying speech pathology in college, Warren worked as a speech pathologist under an “emergency certificate” at an elementary school in Riverdale, N.J., fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an educator, she has said.
3) Stop Punting Dyslexia to Teachers. It’s Everyone’s Responsibility …children with dyslexia need peripheral support from visionary professionals, including school leaders who prioritize meeting the needs of all children, teacher-preparation programs that effectively train teachers, professional organizations who advocate for them, insurance companies that reimburse families for the high costs associated with advocating for their child, employers who support time off for parents to attend school-based meetings, and translators to communicate with parents from diverse language backgrounds.
4) Teaching Impeachment? Here’s Your One-Stop Shop for Resources
5) Who’s Doing the Teaching After School Lets Out? As more after-school programs provide academic enrichment for students, providers are turning to specialized training to help staff members demonstrate that they’re qualified to guide lessons.
Hechinger Report. Four ways that educators can help young black students thrive: Affirming, protecting and cultivating the humanity of black children
Inside Higher Ed.
1) Grad School Without the GRE
2) Grad Enrollment: Gains at Home, Losses Abroad Enrollments in education also increased 3.2 percent year over year… Business, education and health sciences — the biggest broad fields of study — had the biggest share of part-time students.
National Education Policy Center (NEPC). A Call to Retreat from Trendy Teacher Education Reform Hundreds of leaders in colleges of education across the country present a vision for teacher-education reform, providing an alternative to trendy notions for changing teacher preparation.
NPREd. Study Finds Students Of All Races Prefer Teachers Of Color Cherng is a sociologist at New York University…His working theory is that teachers of color score more highly because of their ability to draw on their own experiences to address issues of race and gender…He’s currently working on a series of studies that look at preservice teachers and teacher training, to provide more evidence about the relationship between teachers’ multicultural beliefs and awareness and their effectiveness in the classroom.
Orange County Breeze. Reps. Rouda, Davis, and Sablan introduce Teacher Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act Representatives Harley Rouda (CA-48), Susan Davis (CA-53), and Gregorio Sablan (NMI) introduced H.R. 4423, the Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act, along with Reps. David Trone (MD-06) and Brad Schneider (IL-10). The Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act improves teacher preparedness and increases development opportunities for educators…
Teaching Tolerance. Black Minds Matter: Interrupting school practices that disregard the mental health of black youth. Teacher educator Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz uses the phrase “Archeology of the Self” to describe how teachers should dig deep, peel back layers of themselves and think about how issues of race, class, religion and sexual identity live within.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE. 2019 Annual Conference. Coalitions of Care in Teacher Education: Educating the Whole Student, Supporting the Whole Teacher [Oct. 17-18 Saratoga Springs]
NYSED Board of Regents October Meetings.
State Education Department September 2019 Fiscal Report Office of Teacher Certification 7,231,395 (Available 4/1/19)…
Consent Agenda:
Proposed Amendment to Sections 80-3.15 and 80-4.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Extension of the Application Deadline for the Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE) for Certain Teachers of Students with Disabilitie
Proposed Amendments to Sections 80-5.8 and 80-5.20 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Eligibility Requirements for the Endorsement Pathway for Certification as an Educator in the Classroom Teaching Service or in the Educat
The74. A Decade After It Promised to Reinvent Teacher Prep, Relay Is Producing a Much-Needed, More Diverse Teaching Corps The groundwork for Relay was laid in 2007 by founding president Norman Atkins, who also started the Uncommon Schools network of charter schools. The program incubated at Hunter College as Teacher U, and then, in 2011, it became the first stand-alone graduate school of education in New York state to open in more than 80 years.
NEW YORK CITY
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. New Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients Announced TQP is the only federal initiative dedicated to strengthening and transforming educator preparation at institutions of higher education. Of the 31 grantees, 3 are in New York City…American Museum on Natural History; Lehman College, CUNY; Teachers College, Columbia University
Chalkbeat. To boost literacy, this Queens school is training support staff to teach reading Deploying paraprofessionals to help teach reading is a core element of the school’s strategy to boost literacy, aided by the nonprofit Literacy Trust, which has helped train teaching assistants and other staff in nearly 120 schools citywide.
Teachers College.
1) Math, Science, Technology Dept. STEAMnasium [Nov.5, Smith Learning Theater]
2) Teaching Residents at Teachers College Fall Newsletter