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Teacher Professional Development

Ethical PD: Doing right by the teachers who do right by the world

April 11, 2025 by Ben Talsma, Van Andel Institute for Education
Ethical PD is a philosophy that puts teachers and their needs front and center, for the benefit of students, communities, and the nation.
Teachers are superheroes. Every day, they rise to the challenge, pouring their hearts into shaping the future. They stay late to grade papers and show up early to…
Digital Learning

GenAI and cultural competency: New priorities in teacher preparation

February 19, 2025 by Kelly Vaughn, Ph.D., School of Education at Notre Dame de Namur University
Cultural competency and AI literacy in teacher training programs can fundamentally transform how educators are prepared for the future.
Generative AI has the potential to transform teaching practices, improve efficiency, and even promote equity--but if used without care, it can also reinforce harmful biases.
Students with Special Needs

Special education staffing shortages put students’ futures at risk–how to solve that is tricky

December 27, 2024 by Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat
While the number of special education teachers has risen over the past two decades, the demand still outpaces the supply
Every year, more special education teachers quit than graduate from the nation’s teacher preparation programs, even as the number of students diagnosed with disabilities keeps rising.
Literacy

Purdue begins work to advance science of reading with $1.5M grant

March 14, 2024 by Rebecca Hoffa
The funds for the science of reading will support efforts to enrich curriculum through science-based literacy methods in elementary education
Purdue University has begun work to improve the reading abilities of K-12 students in Indiana by strengthening teacher preparation using science-based methods.
News

21 education technology recommendations for 2016

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 by Converge Staff
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District Management

Effectiveness of teacher preparation under scrutiny

August 27, 2014 by By Lisa Driscoll, Editorial Intern
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Current attempts to measure teacher quality have resulted in controversy, and a ranking of teacher preparation programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality is one example.
District Management

Teacher recruitment tool will factor in controversial ratings

July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 by From staff and wire reports
In an incendiary move guaranteed to divide the education community, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has partnered with a web-based teacher hiring system that will factor…
District Management

Report: Teacher preparation programs an ‘industry of mediocrity’

June 20, 2013June 19, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
In a new report that’s already dividing the education community within hours of its release, findings based on eight years of research are supposedly able to rank U.S.…
District Management

What makes a good teacher preparation program?

April 2, 2013April 1, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>
To make sure students graduate from high school prepared to tackle whatever path they choose, teacher preparation must focus on making today's education system a learner-centered instructional model,…
District Management

Aspiring teachers ill-prepared to use ed tech effectively

February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
Students who are studying to become teachers use social media in their personal lives more frequently than in-service teachers do, and they want to use ed tech in…
District Management

Opinion: Shouldn’t more be done to prepare new teachers?

January 29, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
We've all been inside a classroom, and there's a good chance we've each had at least one teacher who wasn't prepared for the task at hand, TakePart.com reports.
Curriculum

Panel: Teacher preparation needs overhaul

December 19, 2012 by By Sarah Langmead, Assistant Editor
Today’s digital-age students are expected not only to communicate effectively, think critically, and collaborate with one another, but also to ... Read more
District Management

New venture connects U.S. teachers online

June 20, 2012June 19, 2012 by From staff and wire reports
Share My Lesson, a new online portal that teachers will be able to access free of charge, is expected to contain more than 100,000 user-generated materials.
Teaching Trends

Schools chafe at effort to rate teacher preparation programs

May 8, 2012 by From wire service reports
This article is no longer available. 
District Management

Obama requests funding to help math, science teacher preparation

February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by From staff and wire reports
President Barack Obama on Feb. 7 called for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to…
District Management

ED proposes teacher prep reforms

October 4, 2011October 4, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
To ensure that teachers are ready to enter the classroom, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is proposing a series of initiatives to reward the best teacher preparation…
District Management

New teacher education program headed to 8 states

November 17, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
Eight states are beginning a national pilot program to transform teacher education and preparation to emphasize far more infield, intensive training as is common practice in medical schools,…
District Management

Groups urge updates to teacher preparation programs

October 29, 2010September 23, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills are calling on teacher education programs to update their curricula to better prepare…

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