Sentences with phrase «raising teacher preparation standards»

As Secretary Rod Paige so well noted in his first annual report to Congress on Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge in June 2002, the teacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generalization.

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«The bottom line is that SUNY intends to create an insulated and self - regulated system, which would contradict and undermine state and national efforts to raise standards and accountability in teacher preparation and certification.»

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepaTeacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepateacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

In brief, they include raising admission standards for teacher - preparation programs, making licensure contingent on candidates» demonstration of specific skills, and overhauling their process for approving programs.

TCTA asserted that allowing school districts to unilaterally decide to exempt themselves from teacher certification requirements was at cross purposes with the state's obvious desire to raise standards in teacher preparation.

Fund the congressionally authorized Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program for competitive grants to teacher - preparation programs at minority - serving institutions to make such programs more rigorous — including raising entry and exit standards for the programs; at the same time, students would receive help in meeting those standards.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said many states are raising standards for teacher preparation, and she praised New Jersey officials for taking steps in this dirTeacher Quality, said many states are raising standards for teacher preparation, and she praised New Jersey officials for taking steps in this dirteacher preparation, and she praised New Jersey officials for taking steps in this direction.

In Transforming Teaching, the National Education Association called for a career continuum based on national professional teaching standards that guide preparation and teacher performance assessments completed before licensure.8 In Raising the Bar, the American Federation of Teachers called for a «bar exam» for teaching that offers a nationally available performance assessment for licensure, along with evidence of competence in the subject area and strong clinical training.9

Texas policymakers» desire to raise standards for teacher preparation programs and to find new and improved ways to train better teachers resulted in legislation (S.B. 174) in 2009 that amended the Texas Education Code as well as Chapter 229 of the Texas Administrative Code to create the Accountability System for Educator Preparation (ASEP).

Bill Henk, dean of Marquette's College of Education, says standards should be raised for admission to teacher preparation programs.