Sentences with phrase «graduates of alternative route»

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Alternative routes to certification are programs that prepare people to be public school teachers outside of a traditional undergraduate or graduate program.

While it is beyond the scope of their research to determine the causal consequences of providing alternative routes for college graduates to become teachers, they provide some evidence indicating that there might be even larger demographic gaps in the teaching force were it the case that only those with undergraduate teaching degrees could become teachers.

Check out the analysis of the latest review of teacher prep programs that includes ratings for 567 traditional graduate programs, 129 alternative route programs, and 18 residencies preparing both elementary and secondary teachers.

In the latest iteration of its Teacher Prep Review, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) asserts that graduate teacher preparation programs and alternative - route programs are facing some «severe structural problems» with what the council deems to be necessary fundamental elements of a successful teacher preparation program.

Each year, some 200,000 school of education graduates and alternative route participants are newly placed in American classrooms.

· We must aggressively encourage the creation of a competitive critical mass of privately and publicly sponsored alternative preparation and certification programs as well as other non-traditional routes to the profession so as to «let many flowers bloom» and create an atmosphere of competitive certification, with value - added assessment of the graduates tied to student achievement.

When Germans have tinkered with alternative routes into teaching, such as their analogue to «Teach for America» entitled «Teach First Germany,» graduates are only placed in classrooms as teachers» aides, not as teachers of record.

Similarly, the Teaching Fellows Program was scrapped in spite of evidence that its graduates had much higher retention rates after three and five years (90 % and 75 %) than did other teachers prepared through both traditional university and alternative routes in the state (80 % and 68 %)(Podolsky & Kini, 2016).