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| In April of 2010, I was approached by the Director of the National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) to consider hosting the 2011 Maricopa Community Colleges Future Educators Conference. I remember distinctly that I told him that I would have to present the idea to Club Teach (formerly FEA reborn as Club Teach in 2009), and that it would have to be their decision to accept such a huge responsibility. At a special meeting I presented the idea to be considered. Read More |
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| Melissa Rose Nelson, a former Chandler-Gilbert Community College student and National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP) Scholarship recipient, has agreed to write a series of articles for this year's NCTE Newswire documenting her experiences as a first year teacher. See previous articles in the past four editions. Read More |
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The following articles, published in the January 24, 2011 edition of Community College Week, were written by Tawn Hauptli, Mesa Community College teacher education faculty member and NACCTEP Executive Board member, and Jenny Rosado, a Mesa Community College student and student panelist at the 2011 NACCTEP national conference in San Diego, CA, in February 2011. Both articles are thoughtful and timely, and the National Center for Teacher Education is proud to present them here.
Transforming Teacher Education: Preparing Education Majors for 21st Century Teaching
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| In the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Project ASU NEXT, The Teaching Foundations Project creates rigorous, inquiry-based, content-rich courses for future teachers. Project Director Dr. Laura Turchi, of Arizona State University (ASU), and co-Director Dr. Richard Malena, emeritus professor of Mesa Community College, believe this project will change how future educators experience and understand our complex world. Read More |
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| Rebalancing the Mission: The Community College Completion Challenge examines the shift of the community college mission from one focused on access to one focused on completion, emphasizing less the curriculum that is offered and more the objectives students seek to complete. How each college addresses the issues that community college leaders and their community partners will have to navigate will vary, but a consistent factor across all community colleges is that current fiscal conditions will undoubtedly continue to influence policy and administrative decisions. Read More |
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| During the past 20 years, the number of teachers of color has doubled to 640,000, while the number of white teachers has gone up 40 percent. Yet teachers of color still represent only 17 percent of the teaching workforce, even as the population of students of color has exploded. Recruitment is up, but it's a revolving door. For the past two decades, a University of Pennsylvania study shows, minority teachers, mainly blacks and Latinos, have been changing schools and abandoning the profession at higher rates than whites. What's more, the turnover gap is widening. New research suggests that teachers of color are leaving because of poor working conditions in the high-poverty, high-minority urban schools where they are concentrated. They want more influence over school direction and more autonomy in the classroom to teach what works. Read More |
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| According to President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget request, federal officials plan to overhaul the reporting requirements for higher education-based teacher preparation in favor of leaner, outcome-based indicators of program quality. The budget also proposes a $185 million Presidential Teaching Fellows grant program that would give money to states for scholarships to high-quality teacher-candidates in exchange for accountability for preparation programs and routes. Read More |
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| With special education and the related services being one of the most frequently reported personnel shortage areas nationwide, innovative and effective strategies are being implemented at the state and local levels to address this need for qualified personnel, especially in rural and urban areas. States are using an array of funding sources to provide state-level support, yet many Local Education Agencies (LEAs) still need assistance in implementing those strategies that have the greatest impact. Comprehensive planning and implementation of strategies that involve State Education Agencies, Institutions of Higher Education and LEAs will be essential to solving the personnel needs of local districts. Read More |
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Showcase your teacher education or early childhood program activities and accomplishments in the Newswire by submitting the following to the National Center for Teacher Education.
1. ARTICLE about your program, activity, practice, policy, partnership, resource, etc.; include contact information, photos and a web address if applicable.
2. UPCOMING EVENT title, date, time, place, target audience, cost, sponsoring campus/program(s), partners, etc. |
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