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NCATE works to make a difference in the quality of teaching and teacher preparation today, tomorrow, and for the next century. |
News
Spring 2002 Quality Teaching: NCATE's newsletter available on the web
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In This Issue:
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Solving the Teacher Shortage: A Matter of Professional Standards
The Washington Post
Hospitals in America are facing a crunch in hiring enough qualified nurses. In response, some states allow hospitals and public policymakers to use financial incentives to recruit trained and qualified nurses. No one is suggesting we relax professional standards to fill the need for nurses. When it comes to education, however, we seem to think differently. Everywhere one turns there is talk of a dire teacher shortage. As a result, the pressure is on to adopt “emergency” procedures enabling untrained, untested and unlicensed people to assume the role — and title — of “teacher.”
Read the article on the ETS website
North American Association of Environmental Education Joins NCATE
The North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) was
ratified as a member of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE) at NCATE’s Executive Board meeting on
In becoming an NCATE constituent member, NAAEE joins over 30 other national organizations that represent teachers, teacher educators, state and local policymakers, and content specialists. As a member of NCATE, NAAEE will appoint representatives to NCATE’s on-site evaluation teams and to the NCATE policy boards that develop NCATE standards, policies, and procedures.
Ten Steps to Improve Student Achievement
In Low-Performing Schools in Urban Districts
Big school district superintendents are faced with a bonanza of Title I funds under the recently enacted No Child Left Behind Act. Investing in quality teachers is one core strategy to improve student achievement.While there are no silver bullets, there are promising practices that have never been tried on a scale equal to the task of improving the flow and quality of teachers to urban schools. One such practice would be the introduction of professional development schools, restructured and re-staffed schools operated by districts and universities to prepare new teachers to work effectively in urban settings.
Video Broadcasts of Orientations Available Now
Video broadcasts from the latest institutional orientations are now available on the web . These orientations are sold out, standing-room-only events. The web broadcast medium can help those who attend the orientations carry the information back to their institutions, and can be a training and professional development aid for those unable to attend the orientations.
Continuing
Orientation, September 2001
Initial
Orientation, August 2001
Initial Orientation,
January 2001
PDS Standards Released; Model Can Be Used to Address Teacher Shortage and Quality Issues
NCATE has released new standards for Professional Development Schools
(PDS). These represent a strategy school districts and universities can
use to develop high quality teachers and boost teacher retention rates,
and can be an effective tool in alleviating teacher shortages.
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Forming the Hand That Holds the Chalk
New accreditation rules require extensive cooperation from neighboring schools... With standards demanding careful documentation of continuous fieldwork, universities require more help from principals and experienced teachers to design training and rate future teachers
Who Is Teaching Your Children?
Most states have “emergency” licensing provisions allowing school districts to circumvent state standards, with the result that an increasing number of unprepared personnel are in classrooms nationwide. NCATE recently released a series of questions parents can ask their school officials to learn about the qualifications of their child's teacher. Read the release
Performance-Based Accreditation
Art Wise discusses how NCATE’s performance-based accreditation standards
will ensure better teacher quality and improve student achievement.
View story
Acquisition of Computer Skills and Practices by K–8 Classroom Teachers
Michaeleen Davis, an assistant professor of education in the Department
of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at
Announcements
PDSs for Hard-to-Staff Schools
The Southeast Center for Teaching Quality in Chapel Hill, NC, recommends the use of professional development schools in its new report, Recruiting Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools. The report enumerates specific steps to recruit teachers for hard-to-staff schools, including “develop professional development schools to adequately train prospective teachers for the challenges they will face (see PDS standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) in hard-to-staff schools.” For more information contact the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality at (919) 843-9519.
Samford PBL-PR Grant information
http://www.samford.edu/pbl/pblpr.html
Dept. of Ed Offers Publications
Free education publications are available from ED Pubs, the U.S. Department of Education's Publications Center. To order free books, brochures, videos, and more, visit the ED Pubs web site or call ED Pubs toll-free at (877) 433-7827.
NCTAF Issues Response
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) has released “The Research and Rhetoric on Teacher Certification: A Response to Teacher Certification Reconsidered” Authored by Kate Walsh, Teacher Certification Reconsidered seeks to dismiss every major study done over the past four decades that supports a link between teacher education or certification and teacher quality. According to Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, executive director of NCTAF, the evidence suggests that this approach would be sure to negatively impact students — particularly those who are already underserved.
NBPTS Seeks Assessors, Committee Members
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is offering
rewarding opportunities for experienced teachers to serve as assessors.
Assessors will help score the candidate entries for National Board Certification
at a variety of sites across the country during the summer; assessors
are compensated for their work. All assessors must hold a baccalaureate
degree from an accredited institution, hold a valid teaching license/certificate,
have three years’ teaching experience, teach at least half-time in
the selected certificate area, and successfully complete special training
sessions provided by NBPTS. NBPTS is also seeking nominations for qualified
candidates to serve on various Standards Committees. Visit the NBPTS
website for additional information and nomination forms or call
1-800-22TEACH
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