Tag: teacher

GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). Winter Conference 2019: Science and Mathematics Education in the 21st Century. [Apr. 15-17 University of Minho, Braga, Portugal]

New York Times.
1) Mexico’s New President May Investigate Soldiers in Missing Students Case   The abduction and suspected massacre of the 43 trainee teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala precipitated one of the worst crises of former President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government…
2) Teaching Children Regardless of Grade   The problem is widespread. Millions of students are in multigrade classrooms worldwide, especially in developing countries, but teachers rarely receive training to manage such classrooms and policymakers neglect the problem

New Vision. Teacher education symposium to address quality of teacher   As one way of addressing the quality of the teaching profession in Uganda, the Ministry of Education has organised the first symposium on Teacher Education slated for December 9 to 11

Washington Post. Educator: In Finland, I realized how ‘mean-spirited’ the U.S. education system really is   …Finland has no standardized tests, starts formal reading instruction at age 7, requires all general teachers to have a master’s degree and makes sure no student goes hungry.

World Education Services. Education in Ethiopia   Ethiopia’s teacher training system is currently in flux with reforms being implemented at varying speeds in different parts of the system. Elementary schoolteachers are trained at 32 public teacher training colleges under federal supervision, as well as at private institutions.

UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Towson University Builds Clinical Curriculum Through Virtual Simulation   The program features eight faculty who develop problem-based case scenarios for teacher candidates to experience real-world human interactions with avatars via the virtual reality technology called Mursion.

Association of Teacher Educators. 2019 ATE Annual Meeting, registration now open  Keynote by Dean Goodwin, Univ. of Hong Kong [Atlanta, Feb. 16-20, 2019]

Education Week.
1) ‘Learning Styles’ Aren’t a Reliable Way to Categorize Students, Study Says   At this point, many researchers consider learning styles to be a myth… But the idea’s popularity in education circles persists—in part, said Papadatou-Pastou, because there are, of course, real differences among learners. “The intuitive appeal of learning styles rests on this reality,” she said.
2) Shortage of Special Educators Adds to Classroom Pressures   Leaders of teacher-preparation programs, those who have studied personnel shortages, and educators themselves cite additional factors when asked about the shortage: For example, fewer young people, particularly women are interested in entering teaching at all, let alone special education.
3) Special Education a Growing Priority in Teacher-Training Circles   More colleges of education and state education departments are beginning to put a priority on teaching their general classroom teachers how to work with students with disabilities. After all, those students’ success in mainstream classes hinges in large part on their teachers, experts say.
4) Special Education Plagued by Faulty Teacher Data  …low-shortage states produce eight teachers with special education degrees for every less-than-fully qualified special education teacher. In high-shortage states, preparation programs produce one special education graduate for every two teachers who are not fully qualified in the subject.
5) Teachers: I Trust My Students, I Trust My Principal, But Trust Me, You Don’t Want My Job  Only a little more than 1 in 4 teachers said they would recommend their profession as a career for a friend or colleague. By contrast, 42 percent of teachers said they would actively try to convince the friend not to become a teacher.
6) When Hiring Teachers, District Leaders Prioritize ‘Cultural Fit.’ That Can Be a Problem   When hiring teachers, district leaders prioritize “cultural fit” above all else, including training and experience. But most are unable to measure what exactly that means. 

Learning Policy Institute. Essential Building Blocks for State School Finance Systems and Promising State Practices   Effective teaching is the single most influential in-school factor impacting student learning and therefore requires significant investment to ensure a steady pipeline of highly educated, well-prepared teachers.

National Education Policy Center. Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic   Several weeks ago, I criticized a series of reports about reading by journalist Emily Hanford. Hanford claimed teachers didn’t understand reading instruction and that their education schools failed to teach them what they should know.

New York Times.
1) A Ban on Parents in a School Lunchroom? Everyone Seems to Have an Opinion   Brian Perkins, a former superintendent in New Haven, and now an associate professor of practice in education leadership at Columbia University’s Teachers College, confirmed that parents lunching with their children was not a new or expressly suburban phenomenon.
2) Nation’s First Teachers’ Strike at Charter Network Begins in Chicago  In addition to higher pay for teachers and support staff, the union is asking that more money be spent on special education services for students and on a program that allows classroom assistants to continue their education and become lead teachers. 

The Intercept. Pro-Charter School Democrats, Embattled in the Trump Era, Score a Win With Hakeem Jeffries   …editorials or op-eds based on DFER’s anti-Darling-Hammond talking points, which focused on the Stanford professor’s criticisms of Teach for America and other alternative-certification programs for teachers. Less than two weeks later, Obama appointed DFER’s choice to the Education Department post, Chicago schools CEO [Arne] Duncan.

The Texas Tribune.  San Antonio ISD is innovating to integrate its schools. Is it leaving some behind in the process?   …Ogden Academy, a chronically low-performing pre-K through 7th grade school in one of the city’s poorest ZIP codes, now serves as a training ground for student teachers from the Relay Graduate School of Education, a teacher training program founded by charter school operators. The student teachers commit to work in the district for three years after graduation.

U.S. Regulations.gov. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance  Summary: The Secretary of Education proposes to amend regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Dates: We must receive your comments on or before January 28, 2019.

World Education Services. Can Immigrant Professionals Help Reduce Teacher Shortages in the U.S.?   This report explores the role that immigrant and refugee professionals can play in addressing these urgent shortages – and increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce – through alternative teacher certification programs that tap into these newcomers’ training, skills, and professional experience.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED
1) Office of Higher Education. November Newsletter

1. a) Multi-Subject: Secondary Teachers (Grades 7-12), Part Two: Mathematics Test
2. b) New York State Next Generation Learning Standards
3. c) DASA Task Force Recommendations

2) Regents Meetings, Dec. 10-11

• Proposed Amendments to Section 52.21 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Field Experience Requirements for Teacher Certification and the Registration of Teacher Preparation Programs
• Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.21 and 80-3.7 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Student Teaching Requirements for Teacher Certification and the Registration of Teacher Preparation Programs

NEW YORK CITY
Daily Kos. A Statue for Shirley Chisholm in Prospect Park   Chisholm earned a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1946 and a Master’s degree in early childhood education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1952. Before she entered politics and was elected to the New York State Assembly, Chisholm was a nursery school teacher and consultant to New York City’s Division of Day Care.

New York Daily News.
1) Brooklyn BP Eric Adams calls for fix to unequal sports, gym access for New York City school kids   A 2015 audit by city Controller Scott Stringer found 32% of the city’s public schools had no full-time, certified gym teachers, and that 28% had no indoor space for physical exercise.
2) EXCLUSIVE: Columbia University study shows program helped troubled NYC schools   “We found significant improvements in student achievement,” said Wohlstetter, a professor at Teachers College… The new report is a bit good news for de Blasio’s Renewal Program, which is in its fourth year and has been criticized for failing to boost outcomes enough to justify its massive price tag.

Teachers College. Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC) December Newsletter

GLOBAL
Australian Teacher Education Association. 2019 Conference. Professionalism & Teacher Education: Voices from policy & practice

International Society for Technology Education. Digital equity starts with teachers-in-training   Much of the attention paid to digital equity is focused on hardware, software and bandwidth. Howard would like shift some of that attention to how teachers-in-training are prepared to use technology as a teaching tool.

The Nation. Education Is in the Crosshairs in Bolsonaro’s Brazil: The president-elect seeks to ban from the classroom political opinions, debates, and any issues that could be construed as leftist.   A bill… already moving its way through Congress, would bar teachers and university professors from expressing their political views in the classroom, ban the use of the terms “gender” and “sexual orientation,” and force the teaching of “moral and religious education” if parents request it.

UNESCO. 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report.  Migration, displacement and education: Building Bridges, Not Walls  … a shift to an inclusive education system has considerable implications. It requires a strategy that covers a large range of interventions from curricula and pedagogic approaches to textbooks and, especially, teacher preparation.

UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat. 50 years in, why the fight for Mexican-American studies in schools is still in its early stages   “What needs to happen next is a focus on building infrastructure: such as more teacher training opportunities on how to incorporate MAS in their classrooms; a teacher certificate in Mexican-American Studies, and more advanced degrees in ethnic studies so students see a future in this field of work,” Saldaña said.

Daily Journal. OUR OPINION: Homegrown approach best solution on teacher shortage   …the Mississippi Department of Education, which recently announced a $4.1-million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to fund the Mississippi Teacher Residency program… The participants will be placed in the classroom of a highly skilled or National Board Certified Teacher mentor for two years. They will then be required to teach in a Mississippi public school district for three years.

Education Week. Why Education Research Isn’t Improving Education Much [R. Pianta guest blog] Systematic investment in the basic science of teaching and learning—in and out of classrooms—is foundational to getting traction on new solutions that yield better results. 

Edutopia. Gratitude: A Powerful Tool for Your Classroom

Hechinger Report.
1) Non-white teachers have increased 162 percent over the past 30 years, but they are also more likely to quit   …Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who has been documenting changes in the teaching labor force. “But there’s actually been a massive increase in the numbers and percentages of minority teachers in this country over the last three decades. It’s actually sort of an unheralded victory. It’s all the more remarkable because minority teachers have higher quit rates.”
2) One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach   The data show, for instance, that the state was producing too few teaching assistants, paralegals, human resources specialists, dental assistants, lab technologists, purchasing agents, occupational therapists, optometrists, data scientists and veterinarians for the projected need — but too many web developers, civil and mechanical engineers, social workers, teachers, financial managers and physical therapists.

KCUR. Kansas To Pay Teach For America $270,000 For Recruiting Three Teachers   The Kansas Legislature agreed to pay education nonprofit Teach For America more than $500,000 this year for a pilot program to recruit 12 teachers to the state. But the national organization only recruited three teachers for the state in 2018.  

NCTQ. Late-breaking news: Cooperating teachers should be good at teaching!   For the first time, there is evidence that new teachers are measurably better in their first years of teaching if they were mentored by cooperating teachers with a record of raising student achievement.

New York Times. Eliminating All Student Debt Isn’t Progressive  A recent Brookings Institution study by Judith Scott-Clayton [TC Assoc. Prof.] found that the loan-default rate for borrowers with a bachelor’s degree was less than 8 percent. The default rate for borrowers without any degree was a miserable 40 percent.

The Atlantic. How to Almost Learn Italian.  Joey J. Lee, the director of the Games Research Lab at Columbia University [& TC Lecturer], who did a study of 50 language apps in 2016, told me that he suspects the addictiveness of tools like Duolingo has more to do with business models than with language learning.

The Conversation. For the sake of kids, embrace math   …more hours allocated to how to teach math during elementary teacher training, or assigning professional development days to improving math teaching — won’t do any harm. But we must also address how confident and comfortable, and not just minimally competent, elementary teachers need to feel about math.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED.  Proposed Amendments Relating to Professional Development Plans and Other Related Requirements for School Districts and BOCES
The phrase “Professional Development” would be replaced by the phrase “Professional Learning”. PSPB has recently developed New York State Professional Learning Standards (Attachment B, pp. 48-51) to replace the 2009 Professional Development Standards.
The following new paragraph would be added to Section 80-6.3 of the state education regulations:
(5) a teacher acting as a mentor to a teacher candidate pursuant to section 52.21 of this Title may, at the discretion of the school district or BOCES, credit up to 15 hours of such time toward his/her CTLE requirement in each five-year registration period; provided, however, that if the teacher acting as a mentor to a teacher candidate accepts remuneration, including compensation, from the higher education institution for acting as a mentor pursuant to section 52.21 of this Title, he/she shall not be entitled to CTLE credit for acting as a mentor in any school year for which such remuneration was provided.
See the New York State Register for these proposed amendments. Data, views or arguments may be submitted by Dec. 1, 2018 to:
Allison Armour Garb, NYS Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Office of Higher Education, Albany, NY 12234, (518) 486-3633, email: [email protected]

Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB). November meeting agenda

NEW YORK CITY
New York Times. A School Strike That Never Quite Ended: The struggle over who should teach in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn 50 years ago changed the trajectory of modern liberalism.   … Shanker worked hard to unionize teacher aides and to negotiate a stipend for them to go back to school, get their college degrees and become teachers themselves. Over time, more than 8,000 paraprofessionals became teachers, providing the largest single source of minority teachers in New York City.

NYU Metro Center. Culturally Responsive Education: The Archaeology of the Self [Video featuring TC Assoc. Prof. Y. Sealey-Ruiz]

GLOBAL
All Africa. Liberia: Can the Pro Poor Agenda Resolve the Nation’s Education Crisis?   … 62 percent of all teachers that are assigned in public primary schools across the country do not hold a “C” certificate. The “C” certificate is the minimum qualification required for teachers in public schools in Liberia… only about a third of secondary teachers possess the minimum qualification which is a University degree or an “A” certificate.

Education International.  Mexico: A new documentary honours the work of indigenous teachers   Investing in public indigenous education requires improving poor infrastructure and facilities, as well as increasing both initial training and continued professional development opportunities for teachers.

UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report.  Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments  Building on work presented in  the 2016 GEM Report, new work is reported on teacher education… “Improved teacher education is critical to ensure that the cultures of refugees, migrants and all marginalized groups are acknowledged and valued”

UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Draft Strategic Plan: Ready for Review and Feedback

Center for American Progress. Understanding the True Cost of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers   The wage penalty many teachers face when working with the youngest children means infant and toddler classrooms are less likely to be staffed by teachers with bachelor’s degrees or many years of teaching experience.

Chalkbeat.
1) Reading instruction is big news these days. Teachers, share your thoughts with us!   An Arkansas teacher wrote in a letter to her former dean on Facebook, “while I feel like most of my teacher preparation was very good, I can say I was totally unprepared to teach reading, especially to the struggling readers that I had at the beginning of my career in my resource classroom.”
2) Tennessee schools chief Candice McQueen leaving for job at national education nonprofit   As dean from 2008 to 2015, Lipscomb became one of the highest-rated teacher preparation programs in Tennessee and the nation.

Education Week.
1) Criticism of Teacher Prep. Prompts Strong Reaction [response to M. Tucker blog from K. Morris Provost & VP for Academic Affairs, Butler University]   I stand proud of my colleagues in our college of education. I am confident our teacher-preparation program prepares graduates to become effective teachers and mentors to our country’s future leaders.
2) Don’t Blame Admissions Standards [response to M. Tucker blog from L. President and CEO, AACTE]  Marc Tucker has helped us better understand education systems around the world. Unfortunately, in his recent opinion blog post (“Teachers Colleges: The Weakest Link,” November 1, 2018), he demonstrates less understanding of America’s teacher-preparation programs than he has about programs abroad.
3) Study: Having Just One Black Teacher Can Up Black Students’ Chances of Going to College   But recruiting more black college graduates into the teaching profession is a challenge, because it would require those professionals to take a pay cut…”We’re basically asking the black community of college graduates to give up $1 billion a year in earnings in order to solve this problem,” Papageorge said. “We’re widening the wage gap in order to fix the education gaps.”
4) The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Wants Teachers to Learn Brain Science   …Bror Saxberg, the vice president of learning science at CZI, said during a call with reporters. “But we don’t really widely reflect those results in how we educate students or even in how we train teachers.”

Inside Higher Ed. The Summer Pell Bump” More Pell Grant recipients attended community colleges last summer, survey finds, after the federal government reinstated eligibility for year-round grants.   The study’s author, Vivian Liu, a postdoctoral research associate at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College, said she was surprised that the AACC survey didn’t find larger enrollment growth.

Learning Policy Institute. Webinar: Reaching Equity: Strategies for Solving Teacher Shortages in Underserved Communities [55 min. from Nov. 13]

Teaching Tolerance. Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way: Educators have an ethical obligation to teach accurately about Thanksgiving. Here are some online resources that can help.

Washington Post. Linda Darling-Hammond vs. Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris (update)

NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE Annual Fall Conference Archive. New York State Certification Update  edTPA MMRP, Cert. Exam Safety Nets, Teacher Shortage Areas, SWD Grade Level Extensions, Computer Science Cert. etc…

NYSED Professional Standards and Practices Board. September 2018 meeting minutes

Oswego County Today. Oswego Expertise in Teacher-Candidate Residencies Tapped For Statewide Project   The SUNY Oswego School of Education has joined three other educator-preparation schools in Bank Street College’s Prepared to Teach-New York Learning Network… recipient of a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, cites evidence to support a sea change in what represents “student teaching” in the state.

NEW YORK CITY
Business Insider. Students in Brooklyn protest their school’s use of a Zuckerberg-backed online curriculum designed by Facebook engineers    …parents from schools in eight states who are pushing back against Summit Learning has complained that the curriculum is a “poor education product” that has been improperly implemented, alienated students, and reduced teachers to the role of “facilitators.”

CityLimits.org. Overdue Assignment: Making NYC Schools Culturally Responsive   Specifically, the chancellor has highlighted a need for more black and Latino teachers and announced a program aimed at persuading New York City teenagers return home to teach school after college.

Heinman Blog. What We Have Learned (so far) from Teaching the Phonics Units of Study  The TCRWP phonics team has been observing and collecting data as teachers have gotten the phonics units off and going. They’ve heard ideas on how to make the work more efficient in places, how to best organize the materials, how to how to adjust certain sessions for clarity and ease of instruction. 

Teachers College. The Jaffe Peace Corps Fellows Program Autumn Newsletter

GLOBAL
Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE). ACDE Re-Elects President, New Deputy and Outlines Priority Issues   ‘After three years of major reforms in Australian teacher education in Australia, there is still much to be done,’ Professor Aspland says.

Brookings Institute. The importance of gender in early childhood education policy   Research in Asia and Africa on teachers’ attitudes and expectations toward girls’ performance in mathematics and science has shown that training teachers with a gender-sensitive approach can improve equal participation of all children in a learning environment.

New Telegraph. [Nigeria] Ayade flags off Advanced Teachers’ College project The governor… hinted that the project was being executed to improve the performance and skills of teachers, while addressing performance of the state in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Times Higher Education (THE). World University Rankings 2019 by subject: education 1. Stanford Univ. 2. Harvard Univ. 3. Univ. of California-Berkeley 4. University of Hong Kong 5. Univ. of Oxford…  

UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat.
1) Memphis leader of Teach for America stepping down this spring
2) WATCH: This Detroit teacher — a physicist lyricist — uses rap to excite his students about science   I’m a physicist, lyricist, been in this ridiculousness, he raps, quoting Columbia University professor Chris Emden… Nellum, a science teacher at the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, a charter school on Detroit’s northwest side, said he is writing a book called “teaching black males in science education and science classrooms.”

Chronicle of Higher Education. What the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed   But the prospect that the new Congress will consider a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act remains remote.

Daily Journal. Districts turn inward to groom future teachers … the Mississippi Department of Education is launching a new teacher-residency program this month. The initiative will recruit 35 teacher candidates, pay for their undergraduate tuition, place them in the classroom of a teacher-mentor for two years and then require them to teach for three years …

Education Week.
1) Buckle Up, Betsy DeVos: Democrats Have Won the House Democrats’ proposal to overhaul higher education through the Aim Higher Act, for example, will probably stall in the GOP-controlled Senate even if the House votes to pass it.
2) In Historic Win, Nationally Recognized Teacher Jahana Hayes Elected to U.S. House   Her platform called for more resources, support, and training for teachers, as well as increasing career-readiness training for students and making college more affordable.
3) Teachers Colleges as the Weakest Link: Part 2 [M. Tucker blog] The problem is the separation almost everywhere in this country between the governance of the schools and the governance of higher education.  In countries with very strong education systems, for example, teachers colleges are expected to teach prospective teachers how to teach the state-required curriculum in the schools.

Fair Test. “Beyond The GRE” Campaign And “GREXIT” Web List Seek To Downplay Tests In Graduate School Admissions

Inside Higher Education.
1) Gubernatorial Winners and Higher Education   Ducey [AZ] notes that he backed programs to make it possible for college students to graduate debt-free if they pledge to work as a teacher in the state.
2) What a Divided Congress Means for Higher Education   Among the Democrats elected Tuesday was Donna Shalala …a three-time college president/chancellor: at the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Hunter College of the City University of New York… The Democratic victory also puts another nail in the coffin for the PROSPER Act, the controversial GOP proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.

Lafayette Journal & Courier. Teachers are learning on the job how to manage students with autism   Marchand-Martella frequently hears from local school districts and current undergraduate students alike that teachers want more training for behavioral management and instruction differentiation. 

Learning Policy Institute. Reaching Equity: Strategies for Solving Teacher Shortages in Underserved Communities [Webinar 11/13 3pm]

New York Times. Is Democracy at Risk? A Lesson Plan for U.S. and Global History Classes

Scientific American. As Insect Populations Decline, Scientists Are Trying to Understand Why   In the long haul, Spafford sees education as critical. “I think training teachers to better understand the role of insects in systems and such would be really helpful, and then teachers would hopefully share that information with students,”…

Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE). ATLAS Video Library Offer for edTPA Members

The Bakersfield Californian. KCSOS working to help prospective teachers get their credentials The Kern County Superintendent of Schools office is holding a free informational session for prospective teachers …Representatives from universities such as Cal State Bakersfield, Point Loma Nazarene University and the Bakersfield campus of the University of LaVerne will be available to talk to about their credential programs.

Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond Teacher Residency receives nearly $5M grant to expand, provide STEM training   The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $4.97 million grant to expand Richmond Teacher Residency, help provisionally licensed science, technology, engineering and math teachers move toward full licensure, and provide math and science training to hundreds of local elementary and special education teachers.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents.
1) November Meetings
2) Public Comment Period: Rules of the Board of Regents Relating to Professional Development Plans and Other Related Requirements for School Districts and BOCES Data, views or arguments may be submitted by Dec. 1, 2018 to: Allison Armour-Garb, NYS Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Office of Higher Education, Albany, NY 12234, (518) 486-3633, email: [email protected]

NEW YORK CITY
New York Times. Wish List in Hand, Mayor de Blasio Savors New Dynamic in Albany   Senate Republicans subsequently tormented him whenever possible, blocking his initiatives or letting him turn slowly before they agreed to extend mayoral control of city schools (for much shorter periods than he desired).

GLOBAL
CTV News. Ontario government to require math test for new teachers   The legislation comes after the Education Quality and Accountability Office, which administers standardized assessments in the province, said this summer that math test scores among public elementary students have been decreasing over the last five years..

Hürriet Daily News. Turkey’s education minister unveils education reform program  There will also be changes in the education of the teachers. “The training of teachers should definitely be changed in education faculties [of universities]. We cannot control the system without controlling the resources,”

International Education News. Leading Futures: Flip the System UK: A Manifesto for an Education Evolution  “A growing teacher recruitment crisis is looming unless greater support for teachers is forthcoming, the President of NASUWT Scotland warned.”… Welsh Government figures showed the target for trainee teacher intake in secondary schools and for PGCEs had both been missed in 2015-16.

The Straits Times [Singapore]. Mid-career scheme for would-be teachers at international schools launched   Mid-career professionals looking to switch careers now have a scheme where they can train to become teachers in international schools.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Colorado Gives Grants to AACTE Member Institutions to Combat Teacher Shortage   The projects will establish teacher residency programs, leverage technology for improved professional support, and encourage more teacher candidates to specialize in high-need content areas.
2) Radio Show Highlights Efforts to Retain, Recruit Black and Hispanic/Latino Male Teachers   …the teaching profession as a whole has sort of lost its respect and dignity. That prevents many Black and Latino males from even considering the profession as a career option, compounded with the fact Black males and Latino are needed now more than ever to be in the classroom.” said Kuykendal, associate professor and dean of the school of education at the University of Indianapolis.

AAQEP. Quality Assurance Symposium [Feb. 21, Louisville, KY]

Chalkbeat.
1) As Michigan’s poorest 4-year-olds wait for classroom seats, free pre-K for all kids seems elusive.  …places facing shortages or high turnover for its preschool teachers have turned to Teach for America to fill gaps, or provided scholarships for early childhood educators to obtain degrees that would raise their wages.
2) Teacher residencies have many admirers but still train few teachers. California may be about to change that.   Teachers who go through the programs have to commit to teaching for four years in the district or school that sponsors the residency, and if they leave early they’re on the hook to pay back some of the grant funding.

Chronicle of Higher Education. Margaret Spellings Is Stepping Down at UNC. Will Anyone Want to Replace Her?   She cited changes that she has set in motion and seemed wistful about goals that hadn’t been reached yet, among them a “college-going culture” and better teacher-preparation programs.

Education Post. Let’s Put The Science of Reading in Teachers’ Hands, So Kids Aren’t Left Behind   Teacher training is a critical missing link in helping children learn to read. The International Dyslexia Association has identified only 25 colleges in the U.S. [incl. TC Reading Specialist program]

Education Week.
1) Teachers Colleges: The Weakest Link [Opinion, M. Tucker]  Our schools of education are the weakest link in our public education system, and, of all the system’s parts, they may be the hardest to change with the tools available to policy makers. Perhaps that’s why we don’t really even try.
2) Teaching Force Continues to Grow  The teaching force has continued to grow larger, less experienced, and more racially diverse, as high rates of teacher turnover continue, a new analysis shows.
3) Why Doesn’t Every Teacher Know the Research on Reading Instruction? [Commentary]   I’m hopeful this renewed interest will serve as a catalyst for overhauling reading instruction in our teacher-preparation programs. However, relying solely on better preparation for the next generation of teachers is a slow delivery system to children.

Hechinger Report.
1) OPINION: Teachable moments from the Pittsburgh shooting   We need to change our language to encourage a culture shift at home and in schools.  A quick and informal survey of my college students lets me know that they received (and still receive) gendered messages.
2) Research evidence on bullying prevention at odds with what schools are doing   Jonathan Cohen, a psychologist and an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, is currently working on a paper about the gap between anti-bullying policies and the scientific evidence on bullying… he argues that schools should combine consequences for bullies with mediation, counseling or a learning experience.
3) TEACHER VOICE: We need phonics, along with other supports, for reading   The teacher preparation courses since the 1990s certainly deserve blame for “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” and leaving a generation of students without strong reading skills.

New York Times.
1) After Teacher Walkouts, Arizona Republicans Jostle Onto Education Platform. Mr. Ducey’s challenger, David Garcia, a professor of education at Arizona State University, has a radically different vision… He is an Army veteran with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an expert on the huge troves of data that have transformed education research over the past two decades.
2) Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way? [Opinion] …kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction…Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers.

Tribune Star. Indiana’s teacher shortage slightly improved   The reasons for the shortage haven’t changed. “We don’t pay well, the job is tough” and prospective teachers are often having difficulty passing the tests required for certification, McDaniel said. Some are choosing to go out-of-state to teach because of difficulties passing Indiana’s CORE content area assessment exams. 

NEW YORK STATE
CityLimits.Org. CityViews: Focusing on the Wrong Teacher Shortage Crisis in New York   …there are gaps between subject area specializations of recently trained teachers and the current distribution of teaching jobs in New York: the share of teacher preparation graduates in mathematics, science, English, and social studies is less than the share of classroom instructors currently teaching in those critical fields.

NYSATE/NYACTE. October 2018 Conference Archives.

NYSED. Office of Higher Education October Newsletter
1) Assessment Vouchers
2) CTE Grades 5 and 6 Extensions
3) Teacher Diversity Pipeline Pilot Grant RFP    …must include an eligible New York State institution of higher education with an approved undergraduate teacher preparation program
4) Recruitment for the Students with Disabilities, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Health Education CSTs

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) After report that New York City is ending its Renewal turnaround program, big questions remain   “There seems to be good reason to think that the program is going to be shut down after three quarters of a billion dollars has been pumped into it without much positive impact to point to,” said Aaron Pallas, a researcher at Teachers College who has studied the Renewal initiative.
2) Anti-Semitism is on the rise in schools. After Pittsburgh, teachers grapple with a response.   At New York City’s Harvest Collegiate High School on Monday, social studies teacher Andy del Calvo [Teachers College MA ’13] did what educators often do: He adapted his lesson for the times.

Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. TR@TC Induction Newsletter | November, 2018 | Fall Edition

WNYC. Five Ways to Make Classrooms More Inclusive