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Teacher preparation
Based on some recent experiences in my own program, I have a couple of thoughts on teacher preparation that I want to get out there. One of those deals with the degree itself. Many programs allow for...
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#NCTQ report on #student #teaching
The NCTQ released its report on student teaching in colleges of education. You can download it here. I guess the organization gets some critique from progressive-minded educators and officials....
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New-new #HuffPo piece on upaid #internships
This was something I’ve been sitting on for a while, wanted to put it somewhere else, but then passed it along to Huffington Post College this time. I’m glad they put it up there. It’s about student...
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Part of my job as #education #professor
I do a lot of supervision of pre-service teachers. I tend to see a lot of test-driven and scripted instruction in classrooms. No matter how much we try to encourage innovative and meaningful methods,...
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Yearlong #student #teaching internships
Arizona State is going to implement a mandatory yearlong clinical experience for all graduating teachers in order to, well: The goal of the project, according to its leaders, is to graduate teachers...
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QQ: Why would it cost a low-income school in SE DC to host student teachers?...
When I was a professor and teacher educator for four years, we did NOT cost our placement schools anything. In fact, we offered mentor teachers a modest stipend. And by modest, I really do mean modest....
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Funny anecdote on the edTPA
I see a few folks here and there starting to talk more about the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), or the Pearson product that will now be used to score and certify student teachers. I scored...
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How is #teacherprep really different at Western Governor’s?
We keep hearing about these NCTQ teacher preparation rankings. There’s so much critique out there of NCTQ as a legitimate research organization, of their data and methods, I don’t even have to get into...
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