The partnership has served not only to improve the practice
of teacher candidates in science instruction, but also to improve K - 5 student achievement in science and content literacy.
Such samples, particularly video recordings, are used frequently by higher education faculty to review the
work of teacher candidates, or as part of state licensure or certification requirements.
One
of the teacher candidates commented that, although she would never forget the experience and was grateful for the opportunity, the sustainability of such a project in a classroom was a concern.
This permits us to gather real time information about the knowledge and
potential of our teacher candidates from personnel professionals who have just interviewed applicants from across the region.
She was excited that she was able to move beyond her smaller
community of teacher candidates and her teacher education program to interact with veteran teachers in her field, around the world.
Two groups
of teacher candidates with comparable prior experience participated in semester - long field assignments during which they video - recorded their instruction four times and wrote four reflections.
Her research addresses teacher policy, looking specifically at how teachers» preferences affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, how pre-service coursework requirements affect the
quality of teacher candidates, and how reforms affect teachers» career decisions.
Overall, the EPI makes it easier for principals and district administrators to quickly and accurately predict the
effectiveness of teacher candidates, so they're sure to hire great educators for their many classrooms.
Interviews, reflective
journals of teacher candidates, and researcher field notes were transcribed and analyzed independently by two researchers using thematic textual analysis (Erlandson, Harris, Skipper, & Allen, 1993; Miles & Huberman, 1994; Patton, 2002), in which text comments were unitized to their smallest, recognizable component (using nVivo7 software to assist the process).
TEAC accreditation audits focus on three quality principles:
evidence of teacher candidate learning, evidence that the assessment of such learning is valid, and evidence of the program's own continuous improvement and quality control.
The report of the Committee to Study Certification, released earlier this month, also details recommendations to raise the state's certification standards and improve the quality of the teaching ranks, such as by requiring periodic testing
of teacher candidates during their training.
Their brief brochure, «Securing Personal Information in Performance
Assessment of Teacher Candidates,» explains the importance of videos and other artifacts in teacher performance assessment and introduces nine principles to guide those involved in creating or reviewing materials that include student images or identifying information.
Reading Matters to Maine is a non-profit group «helping improve the knowledge
base of all teacher candidates and current teachers who will be, and who are, teaching reading.
The ETS reexamined previous research by comparing the academic
qualifications of teacher candidates who took its Praxis assessments for teacher licensure from 2002 through 2005 with the qualifications of a cohort from eight years earlier.
It's portfolio - based; it takes hours and hours to complete; and it combines
video of teacher candidates delivering actual lessons, teacher lesson plans, student work, and candidate reflections.
Combined, the states of Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Texas produce 74 percent
of teacher candidates trained outside of institutions of higher education.
The state's major teachers unions, New York State United Teachers and United University Professions, said the changes would help reverse the
exodus of teacher candidates who were leaving the state to gain certification elsewhere.
We are excited about the progress of our mentor teachers and realize that they are key to strengthening the clinical
practice of our teacher candidates and preparing them to be ready for their own classrooms on Day 1.
Similar to the participant in Wright's (2010)
study of teacher candidates, she initially found the 140 - character limit constraining, but once she adapted to the discourse system and common abbreviations she saw in other participants» posts, Kim stated, «It was actually fun and challenging to get my point across in 140 characters or less!»
We'll see if it works in the small scale and then if it would work at a much bigger institution, where there are
thousands of teacher candidates» and not just the 10 hand - picked «design fellows» enrolled so far.
The act of facilitation was new to
most of the teacher candidates, who agreed that facilitation required much more expertise than only lecturing or providing guided instruction.
Survey data suggest potential areas of focus including interaction with parents and community during field experiences; selection, training, and
expectations of teacher candidate mentors; connections between course pedagogy to field experiences; and collaboration between teacher preparation programs and preK — 12 schools.