Tag: Teacher Prep

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iNews UK. A third of 2010’s new teachers have already quit profession Critics of the Government’s education policies …pointed the finger of blame at former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

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AACTE, ACE., AFT, NAICU, NEA, etc. 29 organizations sign statement denouncing final ESSA Regulations

AACTE.
1) Teacher Prep EdRegs Webinar
2) Rather Than Resisting Higher Expectations, Teachers Colleges Are Driving Them Sharon Robinson re: New York Times editorial “Help Teachers Before They Get to Class” (October 15

EducationWeek. Final U.S. Teacher-Prep Regs Create Data Demands “The feds aren’t paying for this,” Koolbeck said. “So where is the money coming from?”

Hechinger Report.
1) On a classroom-based test for new teachers, black teachers score lower: A new report shows gap on the edTPA and researchers want to find out why
2) New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers
3) Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them: A program in Tennessee is trying to change that

HuffingtonPost [OpEd by R. Pianta Univ. of VA]. Teacher Preparation Regulation: Déjà Vu Or Real Change …Deans for Impact (of which I am a member) and states such as Louisiana have taken a lead in re-thinking regulation of the profession, our field should not let this opportunity pass

KQED News. Why Don’t Teachers Get Training On Mental Health Disorders?

NCTQ. How not to respond to criticism [Kate Walsh’s response to NYTimes letters] Claiming that NCTQ’s study isn’t valid…because most programs chose not to cooperate (as one letter writer asserted) ignores the extent of our massive data collection efforts…

NPREd. What Are The Main Reasons Teachers Call It Quits? Beginning teachers make about 20 percent less than college graduates in other fields.

NYTimes.
1) College Is the Goal. Will These Three Teenagers Get There? She has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education…ran a daycare center out of her house. But…Ms. Shaner, 51, and her two sons are barely making ends meet…
2) Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It …and her colleague, Myra Luna-Lucero, a researcher at Columbia Teachers College, set out to study whether these metaphors carry unexplored implications

The Hatcher Group Communications Firm. AACTE PRESS RELEASE: 2015 Annual Administrative Report on edTPA®

Washington Post L. Anderson/K. Zeichner. The big problems with the Obama administration’s new teacher-education regulations Relay… co-founder and current president is also founder and board chair of the same politically connected charter network, Uncommon Schools, that employed John B. King  Jr.

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TimesUnion. Course sought to attract teachers Elia spoke to more than 100 educators about their concerns Friday at the annual fall conference of NYSATE/NYACTE

NEW YORK CITY
CityLimits. CityViews: Study on LGBTQ Youth Shows NYC Needs Broader Sex Ed In recent months, NYC enacted three bills that require the Department of Education to better track and evaluate health education, services, and teacher training in schools.

TCRecord. Book Review by Megan Tompkins-Stange of Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams [Director of TC’s NCSPE]

 

 

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University World News. Rights fears over spread of cameras in lecture halls [China] Some university officials claimed the cameras would only be focused on teachers, not students and would be recording only during teaching hours

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AACTE.
1) AACTE President/CEO to Retire in July 2017 The Association has employed executive recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates to conduct the search for Robinson’s successor.
2) On the ‘Residency Era’ in Teacher Preparation
3) Webinars to Review Final Teacher Prep Regulations

Albert Shanker Institute. A Few Reactions To The Final Teacher Preparation Accountability Regulations

DeansForImpact. Vacancy Notice: Program Manager We offer competitive compensation, benefits, Cuvee coffee, and a great Vietnamese food truck around the corner from our office in Austin, TX

EducationDive. Examining Obama’s education legacy While the Obama administration has taken steps to invest in teacher training…, Duncan has also made enemies among the teaching ranks

EducationWeek.
1) Could the Next Education Secretary Be From the Higher Education World?
2) Secretary King: Strong Civics Education Helps Prepare Students to Tackle Inequity His advice to teachers and professors: Make sure your classrooms welcome different perspectives, and figure out productive ways to handle any “uncomfortable conversations”…
3) Test Scores Get Less Emphasis in Final Federal Teacher-Preparation Rules …student learning will not have to be based on test scores or the proxy of teacher evaluations based on student performance;…

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. IPFW eliminates majors, consolidates departments in realignment with Purdue In addition, eight majors within existing departments, six standalone teaching programs and four graduate programs have been shuttered.

InsideHigherEd.
1) Damning With Faint Praise  Study suggests that language recommendation writers use to describe women may disadvantage them as job candidates
2) Faculty Strike at 14 Campuses Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education had been working without a contract since June 2015 — 477 days
3) Senate Higher Ed Post Up for Grabs …it’s uncertain who would lead the Senate committee that would handle key higher education legislation

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Final Rules Tie Institutional and Program Eligibility for TEACH Grants to State Assessment of Quality

NYTimes Editorial Bd. Help Teachers Before They Get to Class The problem was underscored in a 2013 study by the National Council on Teacher Quality that rated only 10 percent of the 1,200 programs the study examined as adequate.

Society of Professors of Education. CFP: The editors of Professing Education announce a special issue: Theorizing Pedagogies of Teacher Education. [deadline Dec. 5]

Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). Prepared for Day One

ThinkProgress. Donald Trump’s disregard for teachers   Trump boasted about hitting his grade-school music teacher for not “knowing anything about music.”

USCNews. Secretary of Education explains new teacher-prep rules during USC Rossier visit “In our view, the final release of these regulations represent a major victory in the transformation of our educator-preparation system,” said Ben Riley, founder of Deans for Impact.

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Chalkbeat. How will new federal education law impact New York state? The state offers 36 ideas A set of concepts dives into supporting “excellent educators,” including creating a mentoring requirement for first-year teachers.

NYSATE/NYACTE. 2016 Annual Fall Conference [Oct. 19-21]

NYSED.
1) Office of Accountability: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) The New York State Education Department has established an ESSA Think Tank
2) State Education Department Proposes High-Level Concepts For Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan … increase the minimum placement requirement of 100 hours…require that field experience occur throughout the preparatory program
3) new draft New York State P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards for public comment.

NYSED Regents.
1) State Board of Regents Approves Extension Of Safety Net Regulations For Teacher Certifications Regulatory Amendment Allows Higher Education Teacher Certification Programs More Time to Prepare Students for New Content Specialty Tests.  A Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Emergency Action will be published in the State Register on November 2, 2016.
2) Oct. 17 meeting [1:18 video archive]
3) Oct. 18 meeting [10 min. video archive]

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Chalkbeat.
1) In a tumultuous presidential campaign season, a rare spotlight on education issues
2) When is a student ‘gifted’ or ‘disabled’? A new study shows racial bias plays a role in deciding

Teachers College. The Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture on Education and Policy Presents: Taking the Election to School [1-hour Video archive]

TCRecord Book Review. Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform

 

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IEN. Learning From and Beyond PISA: Toward Achievement with Integrity Teacher education throughout the country increasingly is disconnected from higher education and research capacity…

LSM.lv. Big changes coming up in Latvia’s education system The €14m project for… and training teachers by Latvia’s National Center for Education was turned down

TCRecord. A Stab in the Dark: Anonymous Student Evaluations of Aboriginal Teacher Educators

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AACTE.
1) AACTE Urges Scrutiny of Final Federal Regulations for Teacher Prep. Programs
2) Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration Closes Oct. 19
3) Quality Support Center – educator preparation’s source for professional learning on quality assurance.
4) Webinars: Teacher Prep Regs – A Review of the Final Rule [Oct. 25 and 25]

DeansForImpact. Ending the Era of Guesswork in Educator Preparation OpEd: Benjamin Riley

EducationWeek.
1) Final U.S. Teacher-Prep Regs Allow Flexibility on Student-Outcome Measures
2) New Federal Teacher-Prep Rules Draw Praise and Criticism
3) Why Has Ed Tech Made So Little Difference? What I am describing is a very different kind of education—…, not training—than the kind that teachers ordinarily get.

HechingerReport.
1) To increase teacher diversity, ignore selectivity of teacher education programs? Teacher preparation programs don’t need to be selective in accepting students under new federal rules…
2) Five reasons teacher residencies often outperform traditional training OpEd: Karen DeMoss, director of Bank Street College’s Sustainable Funding Project
3) New federal teacher prep law aims to make order out of chaos, add transparency OpEd: Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality

InsideHigherEd. Trump on Higher Ed

Merrow Report. Pruning Teacher Education “If half of the 1400 places that train teachers went out of business tomorrow, we’d be better off.”

U. S. Education Dept., Office of Postsecondary Education. Teacher Preparation Issues

Washington Post.
1) Obama administration releases long-delayed regulations for teacher-preparation programs …didn’t change an underlying “ludicrous” concept that training programs should be evaluated according to the academic performance of their graduates’ students.
2) The Washington Post asked Clinton, Trump for their education vision. Here’s what they said.

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Chalkbeat.
1). First Person: ‘I was the kid who didn’t speak English’ Teaching seemed like the only field where I could do this, and Teach For America was my outlet.

2) New York City’s teachers union says it’s time for ‘positive friction’ with city So what does Mulgrew plan to push for? A greater emphasis on teacher training, for one.

NYTimes. Trepidation at City College in Wake of President’s Abrupt Exit

Teachers College. Kossoff Lecture on Education and Policy. C. Edley, Clinton Campaign Senior Education Advisor

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bne IntelliNews. Romanian schools face head teacher crisis as reforms postponed Many potential candidates have either left the system, which has been dominated for decades by mediocre politically-connected head teachers…

Christian Science Monitor. Back in school, German kids meet their new classmates: refugees Many teachers have been hired with little or no education experience.

EducationWeek. Finland’s Education Minister Discusses New National Curriculum and PISA Scores We’re very much investing in teacher education.

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AACTE. 69th Annual Meeting March 2-4, Tampa, FL. Early Bird Registration [deadline Oct. 19]

Brookings/A. Duncan. An open letter to America’s college presidents and education school deans Seven years ago, I spoke at Columbia University’s Teacher College and challenged the sector to step up, to create revolutionary change.

CAEP. Seeking Accreditation Chief, 2017 Conference Proposals; Fall Conference Draws 1,400 Participants

EducationWeek.
1) $67M teacher training grant awarded to La. education dept.
2) Having the Difficult Race-Bias Conversation
3) Looking for More Support, New Teachers Turn to Online Communities …many education students join the new teacher Twitter chat, either independently or at the suggestion of an education professor.
4) New Teachers Make Up a Significant Segment of Profession New teachers often report feeling unprepared for the realities of the classrooms.
5) Teachers Seize On ‘Growth Mindset,’ But Crave More Training 35 percent of teachers surveyed by Education Week’s Research Center said their training and professional development had included strategies…
6) Universities Revamping Teacher Prep to Provide More Hands-On Training Modeled after medical-training programs, teacher residency programs have been cropping up across the country since 2001.

Huber, C. & Kuncel, N. (2016). Does College Teach Critical Thinking? A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research

Huffington Post/L. Darling-Hammond. The Answer To Teacher Shortages: Creating A Sustainable Profession There are fewer new entrants, with teacher preparation enrollments having dropped by 35% between 2009 and 2014.

NewYork Daily News. Kids to America: More black and Latino teachers, please

The Atlantic. The Ticking Clock of Teacher Burnout Policy-level ingredients, such as high-quality teacher preparation and adequate support for beginning teachers, matter too.

Pennsylvania Dept. of Education. Relay Graduate School of Education application denied

US News&World Report. 2016 Education School Rankings

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Hechinger Report. University bureaucracies grew 15 percent during the recession, even as budgets were cut and tuition increased Cf. CUNY-System and SUNY-System offices

NEW YORK CITY
Gottesman Libraries. Book Talk: Remixing the Classroom, with Randall Allsup & Guests, Tuesday, 10/11, 5-7pm “Randall advocates for an open, quest-driven teaching model that has repercussions for music education and the humanities more generally.”

TC Kossoff Lecture. Taking the Election to School: Making Education a Focus of the 2016 Election [Oct. 13, 6:30pm]

TCRecord & Vialogues. The Laundromat as the Transnational Local: Young Children’s Literacies of Interdependence .

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IEN/T. Hatch. Recent Observations on Finnish Education from Elizabeth Green We found that same kind of enthusiasm and sense of autonomy …perhaps reflecting the extensive preparation and support that new teachers in Finland receive.

MyJoyOnline [Ghana]. Mahama’s manifesto promises on education innovative but...
..our commitment will be to establish colleges of education for the sole purpose of training teachers in early childhood care and development.

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AACTE. Grant Supports N.J. Chapter Campaign to Debunk Education Myths

AERA.
1) Call for Awards Nominations [deadline: Oct. 25]
2) Education Research Community Letter Urges Congress to Support IES Funding [deadline: Oct. 3]

Chiefs for Change. ESSA TITLE II-A: Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High-QualityTeachers Unlike more traditional programs, Relay eschews orthodoxy, using innovative pedagogical models that prioritize mastery over seat time…online coursework, and rapid feedback loops

Educators Rising. The Impact of Educators Rising [YouTube video]

Education Week.
1) ESSA: Education Department Releases Guidance on Teachers The department recommends that states and districts use the funds to make sure that teachers are supported from the time they enter educator training programs…
2) Study: Students Suffer When Teachers Are Hired After the School Year Start …the rate of newly-hired teachers coming on board when the school year is already underway is as high as 30 percent.
3) Understanding the Teacher Shortage Crisis and the Solutions to Fix it [K. Lockwood blog] the demonization of the teaching profession … has led to a wholesale exodus of senior teachers retiring, and potential teachers are choosing not to join the profession

CAEP. 2016 Convention workshops available online

JTE. Author Interview, K. Zeichner: ‘Engaging and Working in Solidarity With Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of Their Children’

Latham, Mertens, Hamann (2015). A Comparison of Teacher Preparation Models and Implications for Teacher Attrition: Evidence from a 14-Year Longitudinal Study

Learning Policy Institute. Teacher Supply and Demand: Getting the Numbers—and the Solutions—Right

NYTimes. Pronoun Privilege …it’s common for students to introduce themselves, whether in class or in student group meetings, by name, followed by a string of pronouns

SCALE/AACTE. updated edTPA Guidelines for Acceptable Support

US. Ed Dept. 9/27 Video Chat with Secretary King re Title II 

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NYSED Regents. September Research Work Group mtg. New Accountability – 21st Century Learning with Equity [presentation by Linda Darling-Hammond]

Staten Island Live. Study finds New York is the 7th best state for teachers, Jersey #1 NYS 30th — Projected Number of Teachers per 1,000 Students by Year 2022

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Chalkbeat. New York City waives CUNY application fee for low-income students

DNAInfo. New Downtown Brooklyn Charter School Named for Champion of Desegregation Edmund W. Gordon (TC’s Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus) High School for the Applied Sciences will open next fall in Downtown Brooklyn

TC NewsRoom. TCCS new Principal Michelle Verdiner is partnering with TC to create a model of tailored instruction …grateful to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, led by Professor Lucy Calkins …music program was designed and is taught by a Teachers College Music & Music Education student under the direction of Professor Lori Custodero.

TCRecord. Learning to Attend to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners Through Teacher Inquiry in Teacher Education

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All Africa.
1) Uganda: Govt Admits 80 Percent of Teachers Can’t Read For the trainee teachers, three out of 10 were able to pass…
2) Zimbabwe: Teachers Colleges to Become Universities

Journal of Teacher Education. Author Interview: Alastair Henry on Preservice Teachers’ Identity Development  A. Henry, Department of Social and Behavioral Studies at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden

Morocco World News. Teacher Trainees’ Crisis Continues: Hunger Strike During Eid Al-Adha

Nat’l Center on Educ and the Economy (NCEE). See assessment Finland’s teachers take to qualify for teacher preparation programs

Organ. for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Education at a Glance 2016

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AACTE.
1) Congress Is Back! Join a Federal Update Webinar
2) Innovations Inventory CFP [deadline Sept. 23]
3) Research-to-Practice Spotlight Series
4) Solving Teacher Shortages: Key Roles for Educator Preparation [Webinar at Noon, Sept. 29] Presenters incl. L, Darling-Hammond, S. Robinson, J. Robinson

AERA. Sign the Community Letter Supporting Funding for Institute of Education Sciences

EdWeek.
1) An Effective Teacher Can Improve Student Learning Across the Grade, Study Finds …mixing teachers with diverse performance levels can increase student achievement
2) ESSA Guidance Issued on ‘Evidence Based’ School Improvement
3) ESSA Raises K-12 Stakes in 2016 State-Level Elections

InsideHigherEd. Gains in Minority Grad Student Enrollments

The Atlantic. Don’t Blame the Teachers, Blame the curriculum.

Washington Post.
1) America has a teacher shortage, and a new study says it’s getting worse Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs dropped from 691,000 in 2009 to 451,000 in 2014, a 35 percent decline
2) School reform: What went wrong, what went right, and what we should do in the future We learned that evaluating teacher and preparation programs creates a false scientism…

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Gothamist. New Yorkers’ Student Loan Debt Has More Than Doubled In The Last 10 Years

NYSED.
1) New Draft NYS English And Mathematics Learning Standards For Public Comment
2) Prof. Standards and Practices Board. September meetings agenda

SUNY. TeachNY Listening Tour

NEW YORK CITY
NYSED Regents. Bank Street College: Amendment to offer a M.S.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

 

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EdWeek. Lessons From Denmark: Teachers Can Incorporate Empathy in the Curriculum Developing empathy is not only important for students; it’s a vital skill for teachers as well.

GBTimes. Finland schooling China in education reform …too many Chinese teachers lack adequate qualifications but training programmes aim to improve on this.

Iceland Review. Lack of Teachers as School Year Begins

USAToday. Why Finland is rejecting U.S. school reforms Teachers are directed to give students daily feedback and measure them against their starting points, not other students.

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American Educational Studies Association. 2016 Critics Choice Book Award: Reading, Writing and Talk: Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, K-2 by TC Prof. Mariana Souto-Manning and Jessica Martell

CAEP. Chief Accreditation Officer Vacany Notice

CEEDAR Center (Univ. of Fl). Webinar: Practice-Based Approaches for Improving Teacher Preparation [Sept. 21]

EdWeek.
1) Analysis Projects Growing National Shortfall of Teachers
2) Accrediting Teacher Prep: Former TEAC and NCATE Leaders Weigh In    Had CAEP followed the plan set out in the design-team report, it would have avoided all the problems described in the Education Week article.

Hechinger Report. How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

Learning Policy Institute. Understanding Teacher Shortages: A State-by-State Analysis of the Factors Influencing Teacher Supply, Demand, and Equity

Louisiana Tech Univ. Educators, education secretary talk teacher training

NEPC. Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence

Ozarks Public Radio. Trends in Teacher Preparation

Purdue Univ. $2 million NSF grant to fund College of Education STEM research project

TECSCU & TRG. Joint Fall Conference 2016 [deadline: Sept. 30]

Twitter Chat. #teacherprep @EdProgress & @HopeStreetGroup Sept. 20, 8pm

WashingtonPost/K. Zeichner. The problem with the growing effort to ‘disrupt’ teacher preparation in the United States

What Works Clearing House. Launch of Redesigned Website on Ed Research

NEW YORK STATE

NYSED. State Board Of Regents Approves New York’s Participation In Reciprocity Agreement For Distance Learning With Other States (SARA)

Chalkbeat. How I Teach: A fourth-grade teacher uses dance parties and emojis to engage students by Lauren Bakian-Aaker, NYS Teacher of the Year Finalist and TC Instructor

NEW YORK CITY

Chalkbeat. Teach for America’s presence in New York City hits 11-year low

NYTimes. Faculty Lockout at L.I.U.-Brooklyn Ends With Contract Agreement

Teachers College. Teacher as Activist: Bridging the Educational Divide  Wed. Sept. 21, 6:30-9:30

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A.I.R. & Univ. of Fl. Learning to Teach: Practice-Based Preparation in Teacher Education

CAEPCon. CFP [deadline. Oct. 10]

Chalkbeat. This Indiana college says teacher training should be more like med school

LATimes [OpEd]. Why firing bad teachers isn’t nearly as important as creating good ones

NCTAF. NCTAF Issues Call to Collective Action & Releases Report  Supporting these shifts requires deliberate and careful alignment of the systems that recruit and prepare new teachers,

New York Times.

1) An Effective but Exhausting Alternative to High-School Suspensions  New York’s Education Department is investing in training its own faculty, 

2) An F-Minus for America’s Schools From a Fed-Up Judge  He criticized “uselessly perfect teacher evaluations” 

3) Donald Trump Releases Education Proposal, Promoting School Choice  Rather than sending federal education dollars to schools … Mr. Trump proposed giving block grants to states

Univ. of Washington/K. Zeichner. What we (don’t) know about independent teacher preparation programs

Washington Post. ‘I love being a teacher — and my greatest joy is the tough kids’

NEW YORK STATE

NYS Legislature. [Reach out to your local Assemblymember and Senator to express support for these bills]

1) Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certified teachers already holding a graduate degree  Assembly Bill A10605,  Senate Bill  S7647
2) Relates to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program. Assembly Bill A7727 ,   Senate Bill S5512A

NYSED. Regents September Meeting agenda

NEW YORK CITY

DNA Info. Parents, Pols Call on DOE to Fix Space Issues at Harlem Elementary School  The school opened in 2010 as a partnership between the DOE and Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Inside Higher Ed. Latest on Long Island U Lockout of Faculty  [incl. undergrad and grad teacher ed programs]

New York Times. In Brooklyn, Stifling Higher Learning Among Hasidic Women  The letter went on to say that girls shouldn’t learn college subjects and that those who refused to obey would be denied positions as teachers.

 

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IEN. A Tale of Two Countries: Improvement in Germany and Decline in Australia’s Educational Performance

     …high quality of Germany’s teachers including the strong focus on initial selection, state-based examinations, training and certification.

NPR Ed. The Best Schools In The World Do This. Why Don’t We?

     …in many top-performing countries,… educators are often trained at a handful of the best, most selective universities.

The Diplomat. India’s New Education Policy: What Are The Priorities?

     …curriculum development and examination reform, teacher and faculty training, lifelong literacy, higher education and long distance learning.

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AACTE. Invitation: ‘Teach to Lead’ Teacher Prep Summit With USED [deadline Sept. 15]

Brookings Institute. High hopes and harsh realities: The real challenges to building a diverse teacher workforce

Chalkbeat.
New study: Teachers’ wages lag further behind their peers than ever before

     The discussion about teacher recruitment and retainment can’t overlook what teachers are getting paid,…

No professionals say, ‘I became great at my work by attending workshops.’ Why do we treat teaching differently?
How did educators in the United States reach a point where we are, incongruously, using a completely different set of practices to help adults learn to be great than any other field?

First Person: It doesn’t matter how ‘proficient’ a potential teacher is. Here’s what we look for instead

Cloaking Inequity. Breaking News: @TeachForAmerica and @KIPP stole ideas and curriculum?

EdSurge. More Than a Million Syllabuses at Your Fingertips

EduVentures. Follow the Teacher

…to maintain accreditation by CAEP, educator preparation providers must demonstrate the effectiveness of their graduates by linking student outcomes …

EdWeek.

States Loosen Teacher-Licensure Rules Amid Shortage Fears
     …dropping the requirement that teachers who are certified in other states take New York’s own certification exams.

Teacher-Prep Accreditation Group Seeks to Regain Traction: CAEP standards in force this fall

Hechinger Report. Can Teach For America get more teachers to stick around in some of the nation’s poorest schools?

HuffingtonPost (A. Singer blog). ETS to Replace Students with Avatars in Teacher Certification Exams

Nat’l Conf. of State Legislators (NCSL). No Time to Lose How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State

NEA Today. First Few Weeks as a New Teacher: 3 Things I Wish I Had Known

New York Times (OpEd, TC Assoc. Prof. C. Emdin). Why Black Men Quit Teaching
     Instead of fixating on black male teachers, we need to examine how teachers are trained, their beliefs about young minority men,…

PBS News Hour. Illinois State’s Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline [9-min. news video]

PoliticoNewYork. Overturning precedent, NLRB rules graduate students may form unions

TeacherReady. New Online Teacher Certification Program

The Atlantic. Harvard’s New Approach to America’s Teacher Deficit

Twin Cities Pioneer Press. Appeals panel denies state’s request to dismiss teacher licensing lawsuit

Univ. of VA Curry School of Ed. Research You Can Use: Educators Edition 2016

US Ed Dept. Preparing and Credentialing the Nation’s Teachers: The Secretary’s 10th Report on Teacher Quality

University Affairs. Should education professors have school-related experience?

NEW YORK STATE

Inside Higher Ed. St. John’s U of New York Goes Test Optional

Lohud Journal News. Tough job market for NY teacher candidates

NYSED Regents. 2016-17 meeting schedule

NEW YORK CITY

Teachers College.

Doctoral Specialization in Teacher Education

Teaching for the New Majority: A TC institute reimagines education for racially diverse classrooms

The Atlantic. The Underestimation of America’s Preschool Teachers: One city’s attempt to professionalize early education could be a model for the nation.

 

 

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Int’l Ed News: A Tale of Two Countries: Improvement in Germany and Decline in Australia’s Educational Performance
     While federal authorities in Germany provide funding to universities for initial teacher education…

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AACTE:
1) Decoding the GPA Category: A Closer Look at Title II Data
   Contrary to the common complaint that teacher preparation programs need to raise their required GPAs, …on average, teacher candidates already exceed these expectations.
2) ACSR: State Policy Statements to Enhance Educator Preparation

3) Nominations for Outstanding Dissertation Award [deadline Aug. 16]

AERA: CFP [deadline Sept. 20]

EdWeek:
1) U.S. Schools Need More Teachers to Be ‘Ambassadors,’ Report Says

     A crucial source for this recruiting effort is current teachers, who have friends, relatives, neighbors, or school classmates…
2) Utah Plan to Address Teacher Shortage Draws Ire
3) Teach For America: Same Story, Different Times
4) Hawaii school year begins with hundreds of teacher vacancies
     In response to the shortage, the department increased its recruitment efforts by sending teams to meet with potential applicants

NBC: Georgia school district hiring 450 teachers, no education degree required

Pi Delta Kappa: The unintended consequences of edTPA

TNTP: On Teacher Prep, the Data Speaks Volumes—If We Let It

NEW YORK CITY

Chalkbeat:
1) Our stopgap strategies for helping long-term English learners aren’t good enough
     What we need are more programs, support, and training to help this very vulnerable population succeed.
2) How to prepare teachers for struggling schools? Harvard thinks it has a new answer