Tag: Teacher Education

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EduInternational. Education International puts teachers’ needs at the centre of sustainable development  These include a system approach, a strong teaching profession, and a properly developed curriculum.

EqualTimes. As Liberia outsources its education, teachers’ rights are under siege

NYTimes.
1) Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?  Kenya has many high-school-educated, unskilled workers who are looking for jobs, and initially, Bridge’s low-cost model depended on that labor pool for staffing schools. Instructors receive three to six weeks of training on pedagogy, classroom management and education technology.
2) Turkey Drops Evolution From Curriculum, Angering Secularists Removing evolution from the curriculum, Ms. Aydogan said, puts Turkey in the same league as ultraconservative Saudi Arabia, where the concept is briefly mentioned in the curriculum but strongly criticized.

StanfordScope. Learning to Teach in Practice: Finland’s Teacher Training Schools

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AACTE.  The Wisdom of Crowds: Collaborative Student Teaching Instrument Development

Cal State Univ. CSU’s teacher preparation program is the largest in the nation … prepares more of California’s P-12 teachers than all other institutions combined — and nearly 8 percent of the nation’s teachers

Center for American Progress. Learning Mindsets and Skills  Revamp teacher preparation and professional development programs using the new science on learning mindsets and skills. 

Chalkbeat. Year-long residencies for teachers are the hot new thing in teacher prep. But do they work?

EdWeek.
1) At One Houston School, Teaching Job Candidates Must ‘Escape the Interview’  … surely some prospective teachers would find this game a nightmare.
2) Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning  … even the best-funded improvement efforts are often stymied by institutional barriers to changing how teachers teach and children learn.
3) Dozens of Arizona Teachers Lack Bachelor’s Degrees
4) In Planning Lessons, Math Teachers Rely on What They Learned During Preservice
5) Mentors for New Teachers Found to Boost Student Achievement—by a Lot  A recent federal report that analyzed a cohort of 1,990 first-year teachers found that after five years, 86 percent of teachers who had first-year mentors were still teaching, compared with 71 percent without mentors.
6) Project-Based Learning’s Next Project: Understanding When It Works  Students whose teachers used the project-based-learning curriculum made gains that were 63 percent higher than their peers in the control group in social studies and 23 percent higher in informational reading.

Hechinger Report. TEACHER VOICE: What if instead of the voucher battle, we gave all of the nation’s children a top STEM education  Better-prepared students can learn more thoroughly by helping to bring their peers up to speed…

HuffPost.
1) Arizona’s Alt-Cert Law Replaces ‘Teachers’ With ‘Persons’ In Its Classrooms [A. Singer blog] Senate Bill 1042 signed into law in May by Republican Governor Doug Ducey permits “persons” with a college degree to bypass Arizona’s regular teacher certification process to obtain grades 6-12 teaching certificates.
2) United States History: What is Important to Know and Why? [A. Singer blog]  …as a teacher educator I always begin thinking about teaching with the same question. What is important to know and why

Inside Higher Ed. Report on Growth of Early Education Requirements  …examines the growth of college degree requirements for early childhood education workers.

The74. How Trump’s Budget Would Gut Innovations in Teacher Training — Just as Things Are Getting Better

NYTimes. How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms  Code.org … pushes for education policy changes, develops curriculums, offers online coding lessons and trains teachers…

Washington Post. Undergraduate education is broken. Solutions start with faculty and rigor.  Indeed, there is a growing separation between faculty who teach and faculty who research at too many colleges, especially large research universities…

NEW YORK STATE
Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. [cIcu]
1) Independent Sector Schools of Education meeting,  June 21 [ppt attached]
2) Legislative Priorities  Expand the Masters-in-Education Teacher Incentive Scholarship Program

NYSED, Office of Cultural Education. Classroom Resources

Politico NY. Charter sector secures win in Albany, clearing a path for deal on mayoral control  SUNY is now planning to create “an alternative teacher certification pathway to charter schools.”

SUNY Charter Schools Institute. Regulations To Be Proposed for Certification of Teachers in SUNY Authorized Charter Schools

NEW YORK CITY
AACTE. Wrapping Up the Spotlight on the St. John’s RISE Program  …the Residential Internship for St. John’s Educators (RISE) of St. John’s University has generated a strong sense of identity and mission among professors, interns, and PK-12 partners alike.

Chalkbeat. New York City’s racial disparities spill into gym class, according to new report  A 2015 report from the city comptroller’s office found … about one-third of schools did not have a full-time certified PE teacher… The city has also committed to adding 500 PE teachers by 2019…

NYDailyNews. Turnover, a charter school plague   For all but the Teach for America types who intend to log a few years and switch tracks, the union jobs are better jobs, where educators build careers.

NYTimes. Preaching the Value of Social Studies, in a Second Career  Adaptations of some of these units are available through the new online Success Academy Education Institute, where the network has posted its elementary school literacy curriculum.

Politico. After years of torment, de Blasio sees hope in mayoral-control deal That stand-off became slightly less heated last week, after charters won new regulations that created alternative paths to certification for charter teachers. The regulations help solve an existential problem for growing charter networks that have struggled to hire enough certified teachers…

Teachers College. Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Public Education …”it’s hard to find freedom of decision in classrooms” and thus to educate others to be free thinkers and citizens.

The74. Analysis: The Fierce Fight Over Mayoral Control Reflects De Blasio’s Weakness on Education  …more teacher preparation and time set aside for parents…    …Jeff Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, believes political chest-pounding is not just forgivable; it can be necessary.

Village Voice. Integrating NYC Schools Will Take More Than A ‘Diversity Plan’  “The irony of mayoral control in my mind is that after centralizing standards, the curriculum, the assessments, what it left decentralized was student access to schools,” said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of sociology and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College…

 

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AACTE. Internationalization Survey, Self-Reflection Tool Developed for Deans/Directors of Teacher Education  Have you ever wondered what it takes to develop a teacher education program that prepares teachers to teach for global competence?

NYTimes. ‘Our Phones Are Being Monitored’: How a Hacking Story Unfurled  Mr. Patrón went on to explain that he and two other lawyers on his staff at Centro Prodh, including the one representing the families of 43 students missing from a teachers college in Ayotzinapa, had been targeted by highly sophisticated spyware that could take over a cellphone…

TC NCSPE. Colombian Charter School Management  …teachers can begin to work in public schools (up to grade eight) with only a high school degree, though teaching in high school (grades 10 and 11) and beyond requires that the teacher has graduated from a teacher training or technical college or has obtained a bachelor’s degree.

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AACTE. Member-Exclusive Federal Update Webinars

AMLE. Annual Conference for Middle Level Education [Philadelphia, PA • November 6–8, 2017]

EdWeek.
1) Are Confederate-Statue Controversies Teachable Moments?  And while many curricula now reflect contemporary historiography about the war, the falsehood that it wasn’t primarily fought over slavery remains influential, even among some who set classroom standards.
2) Can These 11 States Make Their Teaching Forces More Diverse by 2040?  Saroja Warner, the director of educator preparation initiatives at CCSSO, said this work aligns with both CCSSO’s strategic plan and the Every Student Succeeds Act…
3) Leading School Accreditor Sees Expansion Opportunity Under ESSA  AdvancED…suite of new online classroom-observation tools, consultant services, and teacher and leadership training is independent of the nonprofit’s bread-and-butter work of awarding or withholding its seal of approval for 27,000 of the nation’s elementary, middle, and high schools.
4) The War on Teachers and the End of Public Education  I would argue that we have genuinely reached a tipping point, one where we’re struggling to get young people to go into teaching as professional career (as opposed to two-year adventure before law school). 

Hartford Business Journal. $4.8M for UHart, Montessori degree  …$4.8 million from the Walton Family Foundation to establish an undergraduate Montessori education degree by 2022.

Hechinger Report. TEACHER VOICE: “I realized that my education had occurred within a racist system that privileged Eurocentric achievements”

HuffPost. Florida Teachers take State Ed and Pearson to Court [Alan Singer blog] In 2010, as part of its application for a federal Race to the Top grant, Florida proposed making teacher certification exams more difficult, supposedly to raise standards.

Montanta State Univ. MSU Troops to Teachers regional program receives federal grant to reinstate services

Southern Regional Education Board.  Teacher Preparation Commission

The Atlantic. Can Scientists Help End the Teacher Shortage?: Technology and math professionals are leaving the laboratory to lead the classroom.

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NYSED. Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia Statement on End of Session Legislative Actions  Both Houses also passed legislation that will enable the Education Department to continue to serve as a national institutional accrediting agency… Enactment of this appropriation, sponsored by Senator LaValle and Assemblymember Glick, will allow the Department to continue to offer this service to colleges and universities in New York…

NEW YORK CITY
NYTimes. No Deal, Just Blame, on Mayoral Control of New York City Schools

Chalkbeat.
1) Chancellor Fariña on why losing mayoral control ‘would mean chaos, gridlock and corruption’  Under the old system, entire districts did not have well-trained teachers or necessary materials. This isn’t just speculation – again, I was there.
2) Do struggling schools in New York City’s Renewal turnaround program outperform those left out? A new analysis suggests no  The new findings come from Aaron Pallas, a Teachers College professor who conducted a review of test score and graduation rate data comparing Renewal schools with others that were similarly low-performing when the program started but did not get the extra resources.
3) Mayor Bill de Blasio has made many education promises. Here’s what he’s delivered so far — and what he hasn’t  We looked in depth at the school system’s organization, struggling schools left out of the city’s main improvement programs, and the state of teacher training under Fariña, who is passionate about it.

Politico. Mayoral ambitions on hold, Eva Moskowitz aims for national prominence  The Success Academy Education Institute, a vast online compendium of the network’s literacy curriculum, will function like a virtual teachers’ college.

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Education International. Increasing workloads taking a toll on Scottish teachers  … fewer than half of those surveyed would currently recommend teaching as a career choice – this is far worse than in our previous survey.

NEA. The Secret to High-Performing Nations’ Success? A Respected, Professionalized Teaching Force   “Strong teachers means strong education,” said A. Lin Goodwin of Columbia University who examined Singapore’s system. “And teachers need to stay in the system so that the system benefits from their wisdom.”

NYDailyNews.  Brooklyn teacher helps Chinese immigrant students overcome language barrier via cooking, film lessons  Dong graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and education from Shanxi University in 1985 and taught psychology at Xinjiang University, before obtaining her master’s in education from Beijing Normal University in 1999.

Total Croatia News. While Croatia Argues over Education, Finland Abolishes All School Subjects

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EdWeek.
1) A Teacher’s Viral Video Explains Why Teaching Is Tiring
2) Betsy DeVos Warns Charter Schools Against Becoming ‘The Man’  …  slash other programs that charters benefit from… $2.4 billion in money for teacher quality... but some teachers clearly weren’t convinced by her sales pitch.
3) Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How Teachers Learn to Use Tech  There’s widespread agreement that teachers aren’t coming out of college well-prepared to navigate this new digital environment.
4) Pro-Accountability Ed School Dean to Take on Bigger Role in Teacher-Accreditation Group  CAEP, has elected her [Gallager] to lead its board of directors…she expressed wariness of unregulated programs, saying ed. schools won’t hold themselves accountable for the teachers they prepare if they don’t have to. 

Hechinger Report. Good news: There is an answer to the shortage of black and brown teachers  The proportion of teachers who are female (predominately white) grew from 67 percent in 1980-81 to more than 76 percent in 2011-12, according to the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)…

NEA Today. Experts Discuss How to Find – and Keep – Teachers of Color  Margartia Bianco is a professor at the University of Denver and founder of Pathway2Teaching…The program encourages students to attend college and then return to their communities as culturally responsive teachers.

NYTimes.
1) Decades-Old Work-Study Program Faces Major Cuts Judith Scott-Clayton, associate professor of economics and education at Columbia University Teachers’ College, said work study has shown to have a positive effect on college persistence and completion, especially for low-income students…
2) Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise  … immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “will continue to be eligible” to renew every two years and notes that “no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.”
3) To Understand Betsy DeVos’s Educational Views, View Her Education  Mr. Booy, a self-described “radical idealist,” … thought he could change the world after college by moving to a low-income neighborhood and becoming a public school teacher. 

NPR Ed. Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching?  A lot of our K-12 teachers didn’t come out of college with that depth of knowledge of the science they’re supposed to be teaching.

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NBC New York. Looming NY Teacher Shortage Showcases Urgent Need to Recruit New Ones: Union Traditionally, local SUNY colleges provided a steady pipeline of new teachers, but that’s no longer the case. At SUNY Potsdam, for example, the number of education majors dropped sharply from over 700 in 2010 to just about 200 in the fall of 2016. 

NYS Assembly.  A.3676 (Glick)/S.2487 (LaValle) passed both Chambers of the Legislature; now awaits Governors’ signature.  Amends section 210-a of the education law to provide that the graduate record examination (GRE) or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement will not apply to certified teachers and school administrators who already hold a graduate degree when applying for a graduate-level teacher program.

NYS Higher Ed Srvcs Corp. New Excelsior (public IHE ) and Enhanced Tuition (private IHE) award applications available with new regulations

NYSED Regents.
1) Proposed Amendment to Add a New Section 80-5.23 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Establish a Residency Certificate for Students Enrolled in a Classroom Academy Residency Pilot Program
2) NEW PERMANENT RULE: Proposed Amendments to Part 80 of the Commissioner’s Regulations Related to the Elimination of the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) for Teacher Certification and to Remove Unnecessary References to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST)
3) NEW PERMANENT RULE: Proposed Amendment to Section 80-1.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Establishment of a Multiple Measures Review Process for the edTPA
4) Appointments and Reappointments to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board 

NEW YORK CITY
New School Center for New York City Affairs. What’s Needed for ‘3-K for All’ and Child Care Centers to Work and Play Well Together?   These disparities make it nearly impossible for some EarlyLearn centers to hold on to certified teachers, creating what the New York City Public Advocate’s office has described as a “troublesome hierarchy in which the teachers who work with the youngest and poorest children are paid the least.”

NYDailyNews
1) Eva Moskowitz’s urgent lessons   For years, New York City’s “balanced literacy” pedagogy encouraged teachers to base literacy lessons on reading and writing that reflected the lives of students. Success Academy’s version of balanced literacy mostly directs students’ attention not in the mirror, but out the window.
2) Success Academy boss Eva Moskowitz tells in video why the charter school is great  Moskowitz gave some details in a YouTube video showing a web-based menu of lesson plans and other material the network uses to teach reading.

NYTimes.
1) Ending the Curse of Remedial Math  And a group of New York City high school teachers are, in a pilot program, being trained in CUNY Start’s model of teaching.
2) For Children With Autism, No More Being Hushed  To devise it, she teamed up with Shirley Cohen, a professor of special education at Hunter College. (Nest teachers are required to take two graduate-level courses at Hunter focused on teaching children with autism.)

The74. Success Academy Launches Online ‘Education Institute’ to Share Curriculum, Professional Development  In the fall, the network plans to open a teacher-training facility at Hudson Yards in Manhattan with a lab school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

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Business Insider. The best and worst countries to be a teacher, based on salary

CBC News. Some Ontario schools go silent as music programs are defunded …university students training to be teachers in Ontario are only required to take a single credit in the arts.

Telesur. Ecuadorian Government Invested $13.9 Billion in Higher Education The number of teachers with fourth-level qualifications rose from 29 percent in 2008 to 80 percent in 2016 with 60 percent of teachers working full time in universities …

NCEE. Empowered Educators National Meeting: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

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AACTE.
1) Advocacy and Action: Oklahoma ACTE’s Successful Collaboration With State Legislators For several years, state legislators had been proposing new dyslexia training requirements for all early childhood, elementary, and special education candidates. However, concerns and tensions escalated between educator preparation providers (EPPs) and interest groups
2) Introducing Lynn M. Gangone, President and CEO

Chalkbeat. This Indianapolis charter school has a solution to its teacher shortage: ‘Grow’ its own educators Student teachers will work in the classroom alongside experienced educators at Christel House, with additional teacher training each week.

Chronicle. Trump Will Push Apprenticeships, Using Accreditation and Student Aid  ...many other obstacles to better matching industry needs to the workplace, Mr. Woodell said, including improvements in worker pay and teacher training.

Education Week.
1) Happy Teachers Practice Self-Care A recent report looking at the landscape of teacher-preparation programs and social-emotional learning notes that in only one state—Alaska—more than half of teacher education programs address self-management skills…
2) How Teacher Preparation Programs Impact Student STEM Achievement
3) Number of Calif. Educators With Temp Credentials Doubled in Four Years With enrollment in California teacher-preparation program still near historic lows, schools are increasingly turning to provisional credentials to fill in the gap.
4) The ‘Best’ and ‘Worst’ Teachers, According to Reddit The rather uncomfortable topics brought up on social media should become food for thought in teacher education programs. The authors suggest teacher candidates reflect on how they would feel about their students judging them…
5) Why a North Carolina District Went All the Way to Oklahoma to Recruit Teachers

EduVentures. Why Are Your School of Education Admits Enrolling Elsewhere?

Hechinger Report. TEACHER VOICE: Trump wants to axe the program that allowed me to serve my country and its highest-need children Many AmeriCorps alumni choose to go into the education field after their service year, creating a robust and diverse supply of teachers prepared to help students achieve at high levels…

HuffPost. Teaching Climate Science In The Age Of Trump As a teacher educator I offer the following advice to pre-service and beginning teachers who face determined student, parent, and even administrative challenges…

NYTimes.
1) Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students As more of the nation’s teachers seek to integrate climate science into the curriculum, many of them are reckoning with students for whom suspicion of the subject is deeply rooted.
2) DeVos Hedges on Banning Discrimination Against LGBT Students … budget proposes significant cuts to teacher training and after-school programs, while boosting funds for charter and private schools.
3) How Student Loan Forgiveness Changed Graduates’ Paths  I wanted to be a teacher for a long time… After doing the research and finding out about public loan forgiveness, that solidified my decision.
4) The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools …financing campaigns to alter policy, building learning apps to advance their aims and subsidizing teacher training.

Washington Post.
1) Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ Elias Vlanton did something a bit different Friday, when he delivered the address to graduates of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
2) Why should the federal government support high-quality early education?  When populous states such as Florida spend less than $2,400 per child and require teachers to have little more than a high school diploma…we know that many children are attending low-quality programs.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. Chancellor Rosa & Commissioner Elia Send Letter To NY Congressional Delegation Urging Them to Tell President Trump $9 Billion In Education Cuts Are Dead On Arrival

NY Senate. Senate Bill S5882 An act to amend the education law, in relation to working as a teaching assistant accruing time towards certification [sent to Senate Cmte. on Educ.]

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CICU.
1) Independent Sector Schools of Education Meeting with Regent Cashin and Deputy Commissioner John D’Agati [NYU, June 22]
2) 72 independent sector campuses award 60% of the state’s bachelor and graduate degrees in education

NY1. Hip-Hop Therapy Stimulates Emotional and Academic Growth in Bronx Charter Students

NYTimes. City University of New York Moves to Rein In Foundations

 

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The Nation. Education simply isn’t taken seriously in Thailand “Only applicants who score highly in their exams and have a positive attitude toward teaching will be selected for the teacher training programme each year. All applicants must hold at least a master’s degree in education.”

TeacherProgress.co.uk. Our Teacher Prep Portal provides a scaffolded approach to pre-teacher training preparation, enabling prospective trainee teachers to make the most effective start to their training. 

Univ. of Nottingham. Education And Training Policy In The European Semester Public Investment, Public Policy, Social Dialogue And Privatisation Patterns Across Europe

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AACTE. President Trump Releases Detailed FY18 Budget Request The budget request eliminates 22 education programs in all, for an annual savings of $5.8 billion

AMLE2017. Symposium on Middle Level Teacher Education [Nov. 5, Philadelphia]

Dickenson Press. Master of arts in teaching program to be offered at DSU [North Dakota]

Education Votes. Aspiring educators tackle the school-to-prison pipeline before they get to the classroom To turn future teachers into effective advocates, the teach-in focused on positive discipline options, including how to influence policy from the classroom.

 Education Week.
1) Indiana offers $10M in grants for teachers in STEM subjects …lawmakers created the grant program in 2013 for nonprofits working to recruit and prepare teachers in schools facing a shortage of teachers
2) South Carolina approves another alternative teacher program
3) Trump’s School Choice Plan Could Quickly Stall in Washington, Analysts Say The proposed cuts from Trump would have “a very tangible impact” on children seeking to go to college and teachers seeking to get trained…
4) What Happened to All of the New Orleans Teachers Fired After Hurricane Katrina? …more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

NCTE. What We Know about Literacy Teacher Preparation

NCTQ. Preparing New Teachers for the “What” and “How” to Teach

NYTimes. Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools  …a new national study suggests that preschools that do not mix enough fiber into their curriculum may be doing their young charges a disservice.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York adds some flexibility to its free college scholarship rules. Will it be enough for more students to benefit?

Inside Higher Ed. New York Approves Free Tuition Regulations

NYSUT.
1) Fact Sheet 17-8 Teacher Shortage in New York State …changes to working conditions, certification requirements, and increased demands on teachers have all contributed to the declining attractiveness of a career in teaching.
2) Severe teacher shortage looms for New York State Since 2009–10, enrollment in teacher education programs in New York has decreased by roughly 49 percent — from more than 79,000 students to about 40,000 students in 2014–15. Anecdotally, teacher education programs report those numbers have declined further in the last two years.

The Nation. Who Did Andrew Cuomo Leave Out of His ‘Tuition-Free’ Plan? Undocumented Students.

Times Union. Letter: State’s new approach will improve schools [SUNY Chancellor N. Zimpher] The State University of New York … educates 25 percent of its teacher workforce.

NEW YORK CITY
EdSurge. How the Country’s Largest District is Personalizing Learning for Every Teacher WeTeachNYC seeks to honor teachers as professionals who are at the helm of their own professional learning journey.

NY Daily News. Queens College grad program to aid teachers prepping kids for future jobs in computer science … designed in collaboration with the city Education Department in part to train teachers for Mayor de Blasio’s Computer Science for All

NYTimes. Where the Teacher’s Pet Sleeps in a Dog Bed All the schools use a curriculum called Mutt-i-grees, written by a research scientist at Yale, that structures interactions with the animals around lessons on things like empathy and resilience.

PoliticoNY. New debate over pre-K universality has big implications for City Hall Bank Street teaching coaches have trained many of the city’s pre-K teachers, and seen hundreds if not thousands of UPK classrooms, Polakow-Suransky said.

Teachers College. Teacher Opportunity Corps Kick-Off Event. June 1, 2017 with Regent Lester Young, Pres. Fuhrman, Vice Dean Goodwin, TC Profs. Sealey-Ruiz, Souto-Manning [TC.TOC 6.1.17]

WNYC. A Fast-Track to Get Artists Teaching in City Classrooms …Lincoln Center Scholars…covers the costs of tuition, exam fees and books at Hunter College. Scholars who complete the two-year program will graduate with a Master’s in Education. And during their studies, the artists also get hired and paid as full-time arts teachers in public schools.

 

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Education International.
1) Education for Refugee and Unaccompanied Children in Italy. ‘We are not equipped, we don’t have mediators or teachers trained to teach illiterate pupils (docent alfabetizzatori), etc.’”.
2) EI research reinforces advocacy against growing privatisation of public education EI strongly deplores the practice of employing fewer teachers, underqualified teachers, or unqualified staff in order to boost profit margins.

OECD. Do new teachers feel prepared for teaching?

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AACTE.
1) AACTE Leads Effort to Save Funding for Title II-A of ESSA
2) Call for Proposals, Reviewers for 2018 AACTE Annual Meeting ‘Celebrating Our Professional Identity’ [Baltimore; March 1-3, 2018]
3) Statement on President Trump’s Proposed Education Budget for 2018

Center for Teaching Quality. Teacher residencies: A foundation for teacher retention?

Chalkbeat. Training overhaul aimed at a big IPS shortfall: Just 1 in 4 student teachers stick around. In order to attract new teachers and make sure they are well prepared, IPS is rolling out a host of plans, from making sure student teachers in traditional programs are working with experienced mentors to launching two new residency programs.

Columbia County News Times. Students sign letters of intent for pursuing teaching careers “It’s three courses that they take, and it is an education pathway,” said Dr. Judi Wilson, associate dean for the College of Education at Augusta University…

EdSource. Federal support for teacher training to continue, but next year’s funding in doubt

EdWeek.
1) Higher-Income Teenagers Are More Financially Literate, Global Test Finds Anand Marri, an associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, said that schools should beware of curricula that seem to aim more at creating customers for banks than at helping students understand how to manage their money…
2) States Look to Military Veterans to Fill Teaching Positions Since being established in 1993, Troops to Teachers has turned out 20,000 teachers through both traditional and alternative routes to certification.
3) Rural Iowa Districts Tackle the English-Language Learner Teacher Shortage Still, some Iowa education degree programs don’t offer coursework to prepare teachers for working with ELLs.
4) Teachers’ Low Expectations for Students of Color Found to Affect Students’ Success Cherng [NYU] recommends that teacher-preparation programs or professional development should address these biases.
5) Trump’s Budget Eliminates Funding for Teacher Training, Class-Size Reductions

IDRA. School Integration – Preparing Teachers for Working in Diverse Classrooms

NYTimes.
1) Agency-By-Agency Look at Trump’s Budget Eliminates after-school and teacher training programs, ends subsidized federal student loans and loan forgiveness programs for public servants…
2) The Little-Known Statistician Who Taught Us to Measure Teachers …[Sanders] raised on a small dairy farm and earned a doctorate in statistics and quantitative genetics from the University of Tennessee… merit pay systems that would give raises to teachers with good value-added scores, to aid retention and recruitment.

The Atlantic. Why Expanding Access to Childcare Isn’t Enough …just six states’ programs met all 10 of the NIEER quality standards—things like staff professional development, staff-child ratio, and teacher education level.

The 74. Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens … the very first school of education in a university in America about 100 years ago… So the theory of the president of Teachers College was, “We’re going to have to prepare teachers who have the flexibility of mind to find new ways to teach these kids whose parents are Irish or German or Italian and so on.”

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Chalkbeat. New York stands to lose $433 million in education funding under Trump budget, state says The budget would slash teacher preparation, after-school programs, and college aid for low-income students, they said.

NYSED.
1) COMMENT ON New York’s ESSA DRAFT PLAN [May 9, 2017 – June 16, 2017]
2) NYS Board of Regents Chancellor Rosa and State Education Commissioner Elia’s Statement on Trump’s Proposed Budget

NYS School Boards Assoc. Teacher shortage? What teacher shortage? [May 2017 report]

WGRZ. Here’s the quickest way to get a teaching job in NY …teacher shortages in New York exist largely in such hard-to-staff subjects as science, math, special education, English as a second language, bilingual education, foreign languages and technology…

NEW YORK CITY
The Atlantic. The Power of Digital-Comic Therapy in Schools Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, offers a nationally recognized teacher-education program for learning disabilities. The school already uses graphic novels in its programs…

INTERNATIONAL
Education International. Work underway to improve teacher training on climate change education

IEN. Improving education in and out of school in South Africa (Part 3) …it is simply not possible to ensure that there is a “qualified teacher for every child” – the focus of many policies in the US.

NLTimes. Teachers Strike Could Shut Dutch Primary Schools For Days “A sign on the wall, a clear signal: the classes are too big, many teachers suffer from burnout, the shortage of teachers is rising rapidly…

NYTimes. Gunmen Attack, Rob Journalists in Mexico’s Guerrero State Iguala is the city where 43 teachers’ college students disappeared in 2014 after being detained by local police.

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AACTE.
1) NBCTs Say Quality Preservice Prep Matters Long After They Become a Teacher of Record
2) NCTQ Offers Mixed Reviews of Undergraduate Secondary Teacher Prep …findings and recommendations continue to be founded on limited data gleaned from reviews of policies and procedures but not what actually occurs in programs.

Chalkbeat. Report: Trump education budget would create a Race to the Top for school choice The newspaper obtained what appears to be an advance version of the administration’s education budget… They include cuts to after-school programs for poor students, teacher training…

DeansForImpact. The Failure Bow Teaching often involves performing as well and, as teachers will tell you, it’s incredibly improvisational.

EdWeek.
1) Arizona Is the Latest State to Drop Teacher Training and Experience Requirements
2) How Trump’s Altered the Landscape for Education Advocates And advocates for public school educators say they’re worried that proposals that once looked unlikely to come to fruition—like a massive cut to teacher-quality funding—might actually make it across the legislative finish line.
3) TEACH-NOW Is First Online Teacher Prep. Program to Meet New Standards TEACH-NOW, … has received a full seven-year accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation—making it the first online institution to meet the council’s new, more-rigorous standards.
4) Teaching Teachers to Address Race and Equity in the Classroom Bradshaw stresses the need for training on equitable practices woven into teacher preparation, professional development, licensing, and accreditation.
5) Voucher Proposals Expose Rift in School Choice Movement That money would come in part from cutting $9 billion from K-12 education, including teacher training and after-school and summer programs.

Forbes. If We Can’t Repeal the Higher Education Act, Let’s Try To Improve It  The central problem with many education schools is that they are “obsessed with promoting social justice ideologies at the expense of open-minded inquiry,” the report states. A great deal of research shows how poor much of the teaching in education schools is—see for example…

Hechinger Report. “Discovering” black teachers at HBCUs Low-income and first-generation collegians score lower on standardized test than their upper-income, multigenerational peers. This holds true for the teacher prep programs’ entrance exam, PRAXIS, as well as requirements for certification.

NYTimes.
1) Free Tuition? Tennessee Could Tutor New York Ms. Riel — who first learned about the program at her high school assembly …wants to become an elementary school teacher.
2) How Google Took Over the Classroom It started training programs with names like Certified Innovator to credential teachers who wanted to establish their expertise in Google’s tools…
3) No Such Thing as a Math Person …“it’s due to being around girls who came in with higher math scores, or teacher quality differences, that’s what the research suggests.”
4) The Little-Known Statistician Who Transformed Education The research convinced Bill Gates to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on measuring and improving teacher effectiveness. 

Slate: Betsy DeVos Wants to Kill a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program …there are also more modest loan forgiveness programs specifically for teachers and health care professionals who work in high-need areas…

Washington Post.
1) In Arizona, teachers can now be hired with absolutely no training in how to teach
2) Trump’s first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice Gone, for example, would be … $2.1 billion for teacher training and class-size reduction.
3) We are teaching kids how to write all wrong — and no, Mr. Miyagi’s rote lessons won’t help a bit …the National Council of Teachers of English affirm the position that the use of isolated grammar and usage exercises not supported by theory and research is a deterrent to the improvement of students’ speaking and writing…

NEW YORK STATE
InsideHigherEd. Not Exactly Free: John M. Burdick provides an insider’s view as to why he thinks the New York State Excelsior Scholarship isn’t actually giving students free college. Increasing the number of students without providing significantly more funding to CUNY and SUNY will result in faculty members teaching even more courses and having more of those courses taught by dedicated but underpaid adjuncts and graduate students.

NYSED. State Education Department Announces 13 Public Meetings To Be Held To Receive Comment On Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan

NEW YORK CITY
AACTE. Preservice Residency Helps Candidates Develop Teaching Style, Confidence The School of Education at St. John’s University (SJU) and its Residential Internship for St. John’s Educators (RISE) in partnership with Queens school districts develop high-quality teachers

Chalkbeat.
1) New York City is honoring 19 exceptional teachers. Here’s who they are TC alumni: Keira Dillon, Patrick Murphy, Rosario Orengo, Diana Shteynberg, Nash Matute. Instructor and cooperating teacher C&T Dept.: Jessica Martell
2) With a major but little-noticed move, New York City signals that learning starts at birth

NYDailyNews. Progressive East Harlem school principal who clashed with parents leaving for new job “With nearly 30 years as an educator and as a former graduate and adjunct professor of Bank Street College, I will use my experience in progressive education to support the school,” Esposito said.

WNYC. Schools Warned to Be Vigilant Over Immigration Officers Teachers at the forum said they would benefit from more training, so they would know what to do if immigration officers showed up at their school.