The scorecards highlight colleges that are graduating teachers who are highly effective, specialized, and more likely to stick with the profession for more than three years. It shines a desperately needed light on teacher preparation, one that panelists pushed for during a YEP-DC event panel this month. The event, called “Teaching the Teachers,” invited experts, researchers, and practitioners to weigh in on the all-important goal of strengthening teacher training across the nation.
New York City took a big, important step toward teacher preparation reform this week. The city’s department of education, in a first-ever move nationwide, released scorecards on the 12 teacher education programs that supply the most educators to the city. They judge the quality of the programs based on new teachers’ performance and success (or lack thereof) in the classroom.
The scorecards highlight colleges that are graduating teachers who are highly effective, specialized, and more likely to stick with the profession for more than three years. It shines a desperately needed light on teacher preparation, one that panelists pushed for during a YEP-DC event panel this month. The event, called “Teaching the Teachers,” invited experts, researchers, and practitioners to weigh in on the all-important goal of strengthening teacher training across the nation.
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The game is on the line; that’s for sure. So why are some of our best players in the education reform movement still sitting on the bench?
Experienced classroom teachers lend a thoughtful, much-needed practitioner’s perspective to the ongoing education debate, but too often In the policy world, teachers resemble the kid in the back of the class waving his hand in the air wildly. They’re left out of conversations that desperately need their input, and instead, other professionals without classroom experience lead the way. Case in point: I looked into the teaching background of 58 national staffers at five large education nonprofits in America: |
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