Sentences with phrase «selective teacher education programs»

Becoming and being a teacher starts with earning a placement at one of the country's highly selective teacher education programs.

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In fact, teaching is a highly - selective and thus highly - regarded profession where only 120 students are chosen out of 2000 applicants to enter the only teacher education program in the country.

With such selective admissions — it was harder to gain entry to the University of Helsinki's teacher education program (6.8 percent acceptance rate) than the law program (8.3 percent acceptance rate) or the medical school (7.3 percent acceptance rate) in 2016 — and rigorous preparation, one might expect Finland to suffer teacher shortages not unlike those seen in the U.S..

Admission into the UNK teacher education program is rather selective.

LMU has been recognized by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) and NCTQ for designing programs that are both selective and diverse.

Though it approves 80 % of applicants, making it less selective than the other universities on this list, Grand Valley State University still provides high quality teacher education programs.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

While it is more selective than some other Arkansas schools with education degree programs, with only a 70 % acceptance rate, it provides high quality teacher education for students interested in teaching in Arkansas.

The East Harlem Teaching Residency, in partnership with Hunter College School of Education and Americorps, is a highly selective teacher - training program that develops, supports, and certifies aspiring educators to become elementary teachers in New York.