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| *January 23, 2013 COLLEGES OVERPRODUCING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS, DATA FIND "Though universities' economics departments preach the gospel of supply and demand, that principle is not always followed when it comes to their education departments. Data, while imprecise, suggest that some states are producing far more new teachers at the elementary level than will be able to find jobs in their respective states—even as districts struggle to find enough recruits in other certification fields." >>read more>> |
| October 6, 2012 TEACHERS’ TEACHERS RESPONSIBLE, TOO “Staggeringly low student performance in our nation’s cities has sparked most of the attention to teacher evaluation. One purpose for rethinking what teachers are to be evaluated for is to introduce some objective measure of students’ academic performance as a component of their evaluation. A fair teacher-evaluation system, however, should also hold those who prepared the teachers to teach, and those who have been mandated and paid to provide professional development to them equally responsible for student achievement.” >>read more>> |
| October 15, 2012 THE RADICALIZATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION "Soifer and Holland expertly show how radical educators are creating a generation of teachers with a major lack of, 'basic knowledge in the very subjects they are teaching.' Knowledge that has been replaced by leftist political indoctrination and 'teaching candidates who are under equipped to address the well documented, worrisome decline in student levels of skills and knowledge in American public schools.'" >>read more>> |
| September 12, 2012 A DEGREE TEACHERS CAN DO WITHOUT “Advanced degrees have shown little impact on classroom performance. On the contrary, effective classroom teaching requires attributes such as patience and kindness, which a person can't obtain with a master's degree. Moreover, the qualities of master's programs vary widely, yet the salary bump teachers receive is uniform.” >>read more>> |
| August 23, 2012 TO TRAIN TEACHERS, A NEW LESSON PLAN “A decade of intensive testing for students as a result of the No Child Left Behind law has shown that student performance directly correlates with the quality of teaching by an instructor. While the past decade has changed how teachers give instruction under the law, little has changed as far as teacher training has gone…An experimental program is underway in Chicago to improve academic results of students by changing the way new teachers are trained.” >>read more>> |
| Summer 2012 TEACHING THE TEACHERS "In any event, few teacher-education schools include data-analysis training, so many teachers don’t know how to read the data, or don’t have the time to use the information to rethink their lesson plans." >>read more>> |
| July 26, 2012 A COLLEGE REINVENTS TEACHER EDUCATION "Instead of closing the school’s Education Department, Hillsdale’s administration recognized that teacher certification is not the same as teacher education. The college could still produce smart, dedicated teachers for America’s classrooms, even if the students wouldn’t have an immediate path to certification. Hillsdale decided to continue its program and invite schools unrestricted by the burden of certification requirements to hire its graduates." >>read more>> |
| April 4, 2012 TEACHER PREP ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING, AND THAT'S IMPORTANT "Obviously, higher ed institutions aren't that psyched about being held more accountable for their teacher prep programs. The very first issue I worked on in education policy involved the development of regulations for the previous iteration of HEA Title II. That law required--horror of horrors--that institutions publicly report on whether teacher prep programs' graduates were passing far-from-demanding licensure exams that enabled them to get jobs in the field they were paying these institutions to prepare them for. It's hard to imagine a lower bar, but of course, the programs resisted ardently, and then found loopholes to largely circumvent the intent of the requirements. But efforts like the NCTQ-U.S. News and NSF efforts suggest that some degree of greater transparency and attention to teacher prep results is coming regardless. Teacher prep programs better start getting used to it." >>read more>> |
| February 8, 2012 IT'S TIME FOR NEW IDEAS IN TEACHER TRAINING "These private schools of education, associated with charter schools and other reform efforts, are issuing master's degrees and promoting a clinical model of teacher education in which most learning occurs in the same place where teachers do their jobs—a classroom full of kids—rather than through traditional college coursework." >>read more>> |
| January 25, 2012 SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION "Larry Sand's article 'No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read'...blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not 'drill and kill' or be the 'sage on the stage' but instead be the 'guide on the side' who 'facilitates student discovery.' This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today's education." >>read more>> |
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REPORT CARD ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHER TRAINING (TN)
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| BUILDING BETTER TEACHERS "With the right training, talented and motivated people can be made into great teachers. But our teacher preparation programs must be up to the task. That's why NCTQ (National Council on Teacher Quality) has embarked on a review of the nation's 1,400 higher ed teacher preparation programs...NCTQ's National Review of Teacher Prep is slated for release in fall 2012. NCTQ will publish reviews of teacher prep annually." >>read more>> NCTQ's standards for rating teacher prep |
| October 15, 2011 STUDENT PROGRESS CAN BE TIED TO TEACHER’S SCHOOL “(This is) hopeful because it leads researchers to the next step in their work: to take a closer look at the changes in teacher training over time in order to determine whether they are actually improving teacher effectiveness.” >>read more>> |
| October 1, 2011 A PUSH TO IMPROVE TEACHERS COLLEGES "The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests. The competition would require states to provide data linking collegiate teaching programs inside their borders to the test scores of their graduates' students. Under the proposal, to be eligible for the money, states would have to ratchet up teacher-licensing exams and close persistently low-performing teacher-training programs." >>read more>> |
| August 7, 2011 GRADE INFLATION FOR EDUCATION MAJORS AND LOW STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS “Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline…(the) reasonable explanation is that the higher grades in education classes are the result of low grading standards. These low grading standards likely will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers during university training. More generally, they contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.” >>read more>> |
| July 21, 2011 STUDENT-TEACHING FOUND TO SUFFER FROM POOR SUPERVISION “The student-teaching experience offered by many traditional schools of education couples poor supervision with a lack of rigorous selection of effective mentor-teachers…” >>read more>> |
| July 24, 2011 ED SCHOOL’S PEDAGOGICAL PUZZLE “Experts hope that out of this sea of experimentation comes a consensus on what teacher training should look like. In some programs, it takes a semester to train a teacher, in others five years. Some require a year of mentored student teaching, others almost no teaching at all.” >>read more>> |
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| *July 14, 2008 EDUCATION SCHOOLS ARE FAILING TO PREPARE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN MATH "The recent study...found that state and individual school requirement combine to result in 'very few teacher candidates taking a sufficient number of courses that prepare them well for teaching in elementary classrooms'.” >>read more>> |
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