All of this means that policymakers are still looking for the right way to
identify effective teacher preparation and predict who will be an effective teacher.
Twenty - eight percent of the points in the RTTT rubric centered on effective teachers and principals; beyond that, other sections included requirements for
identifying effective teacher preparation programs, effective instructional strategies, and effective schools, as identified by student - level data.
Not exact matches
Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to
identify effective policies and practices in
teacher preparation,
teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.
Sue O'Neill:... The first issue I
identified in the preservice beginning
teacher preparation courses (from my research in 2014 and 2015) was that there was what I considered to be a lack of depth of evidence - based practices that have been proven to be
effective from conducting well designed and rigorous research.
Can outcomes like student test performance reliably
identify more or less
effective teacher -
preparation programs?
The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to
identify high - and low - performing
teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become
teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only
effective teacher preparation programs.
For example, beginning in the first semester of the
teacher preparation program, preservice
teachers in a technology course are taught to
identify and use
effective technologies that may be considered as assistive technology for students with disabilities and instructional technology for other students.
While most of these studies, regardless of perspective, fall short in
identifying the qualities of
effective teacher education practices or programs, they are encouraging in documenting the broad positive impact of
teacher preparation.
³ The Tennessee report
identified TFA as the most
effective of the state's 42
teacher -
preparation programs, with corps members demonstrating a greater impact on student achievement than the average new
teacher in every evaluated subject area.