Sentences with phrase «as teacher licensure»

such as teacher licensure requirements and institutional accreditation?

Other policies for regulating teacher preparation — such as teacher licensure requirements and institutional accreditation — often hinder innovation more than they help to improve quality.

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Nora will be in the states in February 2011 as she is working towards her Licensure as a Teacher Trainer with Loving Touch.

And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

As part of her job, McCown lobbied for higher teacher compensations, change in teacher preparation and training, teacher certification and licensure reform, and teacher support improvements.

As one of the program's 1,169 recipients, Steele fell into the greater category of those who would have chosen an underperforming urban school regardless of the $ 20,000 awarded to those in a teacher licensure program.

However, the labor market for teachers has features that create «mobility frictions» preventing teachers from moving to open jobs, such as state - specific licensure policies and importable pensions.

The report is based on Steele's own experience as the recipient of a $ 20,000 Governor's Teaching Fellowship while in a graduate teacher licensure program at Stanford University.

Seductive and reasonable as it sounds to wrest teacher standards and licensure from the bureaucratic grip of the state - after all, lawyers do much the same thing through the bar association - in reality these structures nearly always turn out to be dominated by teacher unionists and ed school faculty.

The problem with many states» licensure requirements has been that they have not been thoughtfully developed as a coherent picture of what teachers need to know in order to be effective.

More and more, the challenge to business as usual in teacher licensure is resulting in a complete overhaul of the process.

The National Board's standards of good teaching practice guided the work of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) as it began to develop a set of prototype standards for teacher licTeacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) as it began to develop a set of prototype standards for teacher licteacher licensure.

All beginning teachers in the state also take part in an initial - licensure program that includes three years of mentoring, two of which the state pays for, as well as an evaluation of each teacher's classroom performance by a team of local experts.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Fourth, big changes are brewing in teacher preparation and licensure as ed schools come under fire, as «alternate routes» proliferate, as programs like Teach For America get greater traction, and as more attention is paid to what a teacher knows about her subject than to what pedagogy courses she took in college.

The ETS is very upfront about the issues surrounding the use of teacher - licensure tests and entry tests as a measure of teacher quality, but it also points out that doing so does make sense, because using this kind of test can show that, as it says, «an individual has acquired a level of knowledge that is acceptable for licensing a beginning teacher, and that teachers without this knowledge are unlikely to become effective teachers.»

Alternative routes to licensure outside of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organizations.

Part of the reason these procedures are so complicated is that teachers have rights to appeal that effectively treat the district's dismissal as a threat to a teacher's licensure.

Just as lively (and divisive) as the controversy over school choice and home schooling has been the debate over teacher pay and licensure.

As licensure requirements may vary by state, it is the student's responsibility to ascertain and meet licensure requirements in any state in which the student desires to practice and to contact the applicable state educator licensure agency to verify current requirements to become a licensed teacher.

As I have shown in the journals Educational Policy and the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, licensure exams are very loosely related to teacher effectiveness.

NCLB required that all of the nation's public school teachers be «highly qualified» by the end of 2005 — 06 and set as a standard that they have a bachelor's degree, meet state licensure requirements, and demonstrate competence in a core subject.

The state does not use performance assessments, such as classroom observations or portfolios, to evaluate teachers already in the classroom and determine whether they may move to an advanced stage of licensure.

As a teacher - quality professional associate, Mr. Dedman, 39, will work on teacher - licensure issues and follow trends in professional teaching standards.

Massachusetts has long been regarded as setting a high bar for licensure, with the goal of ensuring that new teachers are prepared to teach the moment they enter the classroom.

For example, the IDOE provides a web - based recruitment portal to provide streamlined sharing of teacher candidate information for more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reporting.

Massachusetts collects data on these programs and publishes a report detailing best practices and lessons learned.35 Stakeholders instituting or considering such reforms should study these reports to identify how to link preservice requirements, licensure, and new teacher supports such as induction and mentoring programs.

The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages) Program offers a six - course, 26 - credit add - on license pathway that allows MAT students in content - specific areas (e.g., English Education, Social Studies Education, Mathematics Education, and Science Education to meet requirements for a Massachusetts licensure endorsement as Teacher of English Language Learners (ESL).

Wisconsin considers certification from all other states, as long as the applicant completed a teacher preparation program with requirements comparable to Wisconsin's, offered by a regionally accredited institution, that is approved by the other state and qualifies the applicant for licensure in the other state.

State officials believe that 25 % of novice teachers will opt into microcredentialing to complement other more traditional options as their route to obtain the professional development points required for licensure advancement.

Preservice teachers enter the 15 - month initial licensure program as a cohort, completing coursework including a three - course, subject - specific methods sequence with extensive supervised practicum and student teaching experiences in both middle and high school settings.

In addition to her work with Union Elementary, Shannon works as a consulting teacher for homeschooling families and teaches a course with the Vermont NEA for experienced educators seeking teacher licensure via alternative certification.

The minor does not prepare students for licensure as a mathematics teacher.

The Career Switcher program is an online alternate route to licensure that will prepare you to become a middle or high school teacher in as little as a year.

Highly Qualified Teachers Enrolled in Programs Providing Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification or Licensure (2015) summarizes state - and district - level data on the numbers of full - time equivalent (FTE) highly qualified teachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diTeachers Enrolled in Programs Providing Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification or Licensure (2015) summarizes state - and district - level data on the numbers of full - time equivalent (FTE) highly qualified teachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school diteachers in high - poverty and rural school districts.

The Master of Education in K - 12 Special Education provides a licensure track for individuals seeking K - 12 teacher licensure with endorsement in special education as well as a non-licensure track for educators seeking further training in the field of special education.

Our program supplements coursework with authentic experiences as an educator in the classroom and contributes toward the initial teacher licensure process.

[17] We illustrate this in Figure 2, which shows the relationship between teachers» future classroom effectiveness (at the elementary level) as measured by value - added and their initial performance on licensure tests.

But the error rate of these «value - added measures» may be lower than the error rate of classifications based on traditional measures of teacher effectiveness such as licensure status or years of experience.

Candidates with a liberal or professional undergraduate degree who are now seeking licensure as an elementary teacher.

As the first state to fully implement policy requiring new teachers to pass edTPA for licensure, New York and its PK - 12 educators and teacher educators have encountered a variety of operational challenges.

States and districts should require that principal licensure programs include evidence of knowledge of methods of teacher evaluation and evidence of proficiency in supervision of instruction as core competencies.

Senate Bill 867, titled «Protect Students in Schools,» would replace a patchwork of local school district policies on background checks with one statewide policy, which, as of the last publicly released version, requires fingerprint checks for all teachers seeking licensure in the state.

The training programs also dedicate less course time to training teachers in the content they will teach (in part because curriculum can vary significantly from state to state) and teacher licensure exams do not include as difficult questions on content pedagogy as those in top - performing countries.

Bulletin # 106: Do you have Massachusetts Teacher Licensure as an Instructional Technology Specialist?

This program is approved for licensure as a Specialist Teacher of Reading in Massachusetts, and it will also qualify candidates for Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) endorsement.

The ability of a highly qualified teacher to address the learning needs of all New Mexico's students, including those students who learn differently as a result of disability, culture, language, or socioeconomic status, forms the framework for the New Mexico Teacher Competencies for Licensure Levels I, II, and III - A Assessment Criteria Bencteacher to address the learning needs of all New Mexico's students, including those students who learn differently as a result of disability, culture, language, or socioeconomic status, forms the framework for the New Mexico Teacher Competencies for Licensure Levels I, II, and III - A Assessment Criteria BencTeacher Competencies for Licensure Levels I, II, and III - A Assessment Criteria Benchmarks.

And controversial teacher licensure rules known as REPA II didn't end up going anywhere after all.

However, students who complete degree requirements prior to completing one year of full - time teaching must later meet this requirement to be eligible to apply to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for licensure as a Specialist Teacher of Reading.

Although this report deals primarily with selectivity as it relates to entry into teacher preparation and alternative certification, states can also increase the selectivity of the teaching profession through their licensure systems.