Author: Tunara Moore

Tennessee tests more stringent teacher licensing standards

At TN colleges, educators-to-be must prove skills From: THE TENNESSEANby Julie Hubbard About 500 Tennessee college students will have to prove they can teach before they earn their teacher licenses this spring. For decades, earning that certification meant simply passing a multiple-choice exam. Under a pilot program at eight Tennessee universities — and universities in […]

Future teachers must show, not just tell, skills

By Chris WilliamsThe Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. – Standing at the edge of a pond surrounded by her class of fourth-graders, Jasmine Zeppa filled a bucket with brown water and lectured her pupils on the science of observing and recording data. Many of the children seemed more interested in nearby geese, a passing jogger […]

Pilot Project Tests Teacher Performance Assessments

From Education Week’s Teacher MagazineBy Liana Heitin Teacher candidates nationwide would have to pass a common performance assessment based on student-teaching experiences before becoming licensed, if advocates for a new certification process get their way. At a panel discussion in downtown Washington Oct. 19, Stanford University education professor Linda Darling-Hammond and several other education experts […]

Reevaluating Teacher Evaluation

Teacher-Prep Accrediting Groups to Merge

From Education WeekBy Stephen Sawchuk The two national accreditation bodies for teacher education have approved plans to merge into a single organization, in what might mean a more rigorous bar for teacher preparation in the future. Under the terms of the agreement, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the much smaller Teacher […]

Evaluating Teacher Performance Should Be A National Initiative, Report Finds

From Diverseeducation.comby Joyce Jones , October 20, 2010 Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond is an education professor at Stanford University. WASHINGTON — Although more than 30 states are embracing the need to evaluate the nation’s elementary and secondary school students’ academic progress and achievement based on common-core standards, a similar consensus has not yet been built around […]

Appeals Court Curbs U.S. Rule on Alternative Certification

Federal panel’s decision centers on California use of ‘intern’-status teachers From Education WeekBy Mark Walsh Published Online: October 1, 2010Published in Print: October 6, 2010, as Appeals Court Curbs U.S. Rule on Alternative Certification A federal appeals court decision striking down a rule making it easier for some alternative-route teachers to be considered “highly qualified” […]

Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

From: Inside Higher Edby Allie Grasgreen When it comes to teacher education, pragmatism beats idealism. But most education professors – save for a small minority – are complacent with antiquated teaching philosophies. These conclusions, released today in a report by FDR Group and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the views of education professors, summarize […]

Groups urge updates to teacher preparation programs

Integrating 21st-century skills into teacher prep will help students compete globally, new paper says From eSchool News Teachers equipped with digital-age skills and teaching strategies will best serve today’s students, a new paper argues. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) are calling on teacher […]