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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teachers» organizations and others who favor advancing the teaching profession have promoted professional accountability mechanisms, such
as the accreditation of
teacher preparation institutions and upgraded
requirements for
licensure.
A Pennsylvania teaching license is conferred by the state's Department of Education, which regulates the
requirements for
licensure as a Pennsylvania certified
teacher.
Module 4: Connecting
Teacher Evaluation to Student Academic Progress — Implementing Standard 7 Dr. Mark R. Allan, VDOE's director of licensure and school leadership, describes the requirements of Standard 7 — Student Academic Progress as a part of teacher eval
Teacher Evaluation to Student Academic Progress — Implementing Standard 7 Dr. Mark R. Allan, VDOE's director of
licensure and school leadership, describes the
requirements of Standard 7 — Student Academic Progress
as a part of
teacher eval
teacher evaluation.
Requirements for
licensure as a
teacher of Elementary Education, Grades 1 — 6 are listed below.
In addition to these more traditional options, National University also offers highly specialized degrees such
as the Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Development with a Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential, an ideal program for prospective
teachers who are looking to knock out their
requirements for
licensure in one fell swoop.
Kansas also allows some
teachers who have not met its
licensure requirements to continue teaching under a two - year prestandard license, referred to
as Exchange Teaching.
As noted above,
teacher preparation programs must meet the state's
requirements in order to qualify graduates for
licensure.
We urge educators working in states that have yet to add edTPA to the list of
teacher licensure requirements to resist pressures to accept what might appear to be an inevitable change, and encourage those who, like us, work in states that have adopted the edTPA
as a high - stakes assessment instrument, to lobby for its elimination
as a mandated
licensure requirement.
Making adjustments to state
teacher licensure requirements to allow teaching candidates to demonstrate their competency through rigorous but more authentic performance assessments, such
as the edTPA, that do not have the degree of racial disparity in pass rates that traditional exams have had.
Further, the District contended that online
teachers serving DCPS students must meet the same
licensure requirements as in - classroom DCPS
teachers.
Further, Texas's
licensure loopholes are particularly worrisome,
as the state has strong subject - matter
requirements for elementary
teachers that are potentially sabotaged by the fact that
teachers who have not passed
licensure tests are allowed to be in the classroom for up to three years.
If you are seeking employment
as classroom
teachers in kindergarten and primary grades you must fulfill the Colorado De partment of Education
requirements for
licensure in addition to the ECE master's degree; some preschool programs in public schools also require licensed
teachers.
Another stream of inquiry in the late 1980s revisited the district role in response to increasing state policy interventions such
as curricular standards, graduation
requirements, standardized testing,
teacher career ladders and new
licensure requirements.
The only alternative license available in Tennessee is the Transitional License, which is issued to an individual who is employed
as a
teacher while still completing specific
licensure requirements and is only valid for a year.
More states will be using the test soon, and «ultimately,» according to the edTPA website, «the long - term expectation is that institutions of higher education, state education boards and professional standards boards throughout the United States will adopt edTPA
as a mandatory
requirement for the award of an education degree and / or for
teacher licensure.»