Author: Tunara Moore
California State University to Receive AACTE Award for Innovative Use of Technology
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (Feb. 19, 2014, Washington, D.C.) – The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will honor the California State University (CSU) with the 2014 AACTE Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology. The award, which honors programs that incorporate innovation […]
AACTE to Honor Hargreaves–Fullan Book on ‘Professional Capital’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (Feb. 19, 2014, Washington, D.C.) – The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will present its 2014 Outstanding Book Award to Andy Hargreaves, Ph.D., and Michael Fullan, Ph.D., for their monograph Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School. The award, which […]
Chezare A. Warren to Receive AACTE Award for Dissertation on Teacher Empathy in Multicultural Settings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (Feb. 19, 2014, Washington, D.C.) – The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will present its 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award to Chezare A. Warren, Ph.D., for his study of the conception, relevance and benefits of empathy as a professional disposition of […]
AACTE Award to Recognize Study on Use of Rehearsals in Teacher Preparation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (Feb. 19, 2014, Washington, D.C.) – The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will present its 2014 Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) Article Award to a group of eight authors whose study provides a provocative framing of the ways in […]
AACTE Releases Model Legislation to Recruit Excellent Teachers into High-Need Schools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org National Education Organizations and Teachers’ Unions Sign On (January 30, 2014, Washington, D.C.) The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) today released model state legislation that would provide college scholarships to academically talented students who commit to teach in high-need public […]
Teacher Colleges Seek to Shift to Digital Age
From Education WeekBy Robin Flanigan At Clemson University, aspiring teachers are working together to develop and review digital lessons. They’re learning how to use social media to find classroom resources. And they’re being encouraged to partner on projects that emphasize technology with students from other majors. Those strategies reflect a shift underway at some teacher […]
AACTE President/CEO Clarifies Facts following NAME Position Statement on edTPA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (January 24, 2014, Washington, D.C.) AACTE shares the National Association of Multicultural Education’s (NAME) goal to support equity and multicultural education. In fact, that is a key reason that AACTE supports the new rigorous, authentic assessment system edTPA. It represents a groundbreaking step […]
New Report on Classroom Management Recycles Old NCTQ Methodology, Misconceptions about Teacher Preparation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (December 10, 2013, Washington, D.C.) The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) today released the latest of its critiques of university-based teacher preparation. Training Our Future Teachers: Classroom Management follows the template we have come to expect from NCTQ, using document reviews of […]
Results of Program for International Student Assessment Highlight Inequities, International Lessons for U.S. Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, contact: Lisa Johnson Kiefer 202-478-4502 or lkiefer@aacte.org (December 3, 2013, Washington, D.C.) Today the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released results from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), a worldwide study of 15-year-old students’ performance on mathematics, science and reading. American students’ performance remained largely unchanged […]