Sentences with phrase «teacher licensure policies»

By Mac LeBuhn, DFER Policy Analyst This Friday, the State Board of Education will vote on a proposal to change Tennessee's teacher licensure policies.

This document, produced by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), provides state - by - state information on teacher licensure policies for Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers.

This report from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) provides state - by - state information on CTE teacher licensure policies, including certification routes, length of teacher certifications or renewal, professional development and recruitment for all 50 states and D.C.

Recent changes in the State Board of Education's teacher licensure policy put higher - education - based preparation programs into competition with independent organizations like Teach for America and the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence.

Not exact matches

However, the labor market for teachers has features that create «mobility frictions» preventing teachers from moving to open jobs, such as state - specific licensure policies and importable pensions.

With RTTT, Tennessee is stepping around this problem: they are now developing online instruction in the use of TVAAS, and a new State Board of Education policy has relaxed restrictions on alternative teacher licensure.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

Licensure screens for teachers sound like good public policy, but they aren't.

While state governments have had a heavy hand in teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk,teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk,Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk,teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk, 2012).

As I have shown in the journals Educational Policy and the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, licensure exams are very loosely related to teacher effectiveness.

During his tenure in Delaware, his team focused on improving policies and practices across the educator effectiveness continuum: educator preparation, licensure / certification, recruitment, placement, evaluation, professional learning, and teacher - leader career pathways.

Other policies for regulating teacher preparation — such as teacher licensure requirements and institutional accreditation — often hinder innovation more than they help to improve quality.

Most states have some form of licensure reciprocity policies in place that allows a teacher who is licensed in one state to gain an additional licensure in a new state.

Our session, titled «Cultivating Literacy Achievement Through Quality Teacher Preparation,» touched on current program - improvement efforts, revision of the ILA standards for program recognition, variations in licensure requirements across the country, and policy - related challenges.

What to watch: Various stakeholder groups in Oklahoma expressed a desire to use federal funds on policy changes to elevate the teaching profession through recruitment; residency and mentoring; differentiated pay and other incentives; culturally relevant teaching; teacher leadership opportunities; and improvements to both the evaluation and licensure systems.

Develops coherent policies that support and align teacher preparation, licensure, and ongoing professional development requirements and activities;

As the first state to fully implement policy requiring new teachers to pass edTPA for licensure, New York and its PK - 12 educators and teacher educators have encountered a variety of operational challenges.

Senate Bill 867, titled «Protect Students in Schools,» would replace a patchwork of local school district policies on background checks with one statewide policy, which, as of the last publicly released version, requires fingerprint checks for all teachers seeking licensure in the state.

Three members of the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC)-- Dr. Patrick Miller, Green County Schools Superintendent; Dr. Andrew Sioberg, Service Support Coordinator with NCDPI Educator Effectiveness Division; and Ms. Jen DeNeal, Policy Fellow with the NC Board of Education — joined Wake BTLN members at WakeEd Partnership on March 15, 2018, to discuss their work in redesigning North Carolina's teacher licensure and preparation programs.

The Role of Teacher Preparation, Licensure, and Retention in Creating High - Performing Middle Schools, C. Kenneth McEwin, Thomas S. Dickinson, and Tracy W. Smith Lessons Learned from Comprehensive School Reform Models, Nancy Ames State - Level Policy Development, David A. Payton Creating Common Middle - Level Knowledge: A New York Story, Jeannette Stern and Sandra L. Stacki A New Vision for Professional Learning, Stephanie Hirsh.

I am talking about the pilot project for teacher evaluation, not the licensure policy.

For the second year in a row, Republican lawmakers are seeking major reforms to state education policies, including tenure reform, teacher evaluation and alternative licensure.

State licensure and certification policies, however, often fail to include all of the dimensions of knowledge necessary for good teaching.5 According to the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, most licensure examinations have been widely considered to be «insufficiently rigorous, limited in scope and unconnected to practice.»

While Arkansas's policy offering its provisional license for one year only minimizes the risks brought about by having teachers in classrooms who lack sufficient or appropriate subject - matter knowledge, the state could take its policy a step further and require all teachers to meet subject - matter licensure requirements prior to entering the classroom.

Under the proposed policy, licensure would depend of measures of teacher knowledge, competence and effectiveness.

By Rachel S. White While state governments have had a heavy hand in teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association of Colleges -LSB-...]

Oregon should reconsider its waiver policy and, as a condition of licensure, require all secondary teacher candidates to pass a content test in each subject area they plan to teach to ensure that they possess adequate subject - matter knowledge and are prepared to teach grade - level content.

Nebraska wisely requires subject - matter tests for most middle school teachers but should address any deficiencies that undermine this policy (see Goal 3 - B: Middle School Licensure Deficiencies analysis and recommendations).

Another stream of inquiry in the late 1980s revisited the district role in response to increasing state policy interventions such as curricular standards, graduation requirements, standardized testing, teacher career ladders and new licensure requirements.

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the session's final days was the foundering of Senate Bill 867, a bipartisan - backed bill requiring fingerprint background checks for teacher licensure that, as Policy Watch reported, spurred concerns that the bill could dissuade acts of protest among educators.