Sentences with phrase «teacher preparation system»

It sounds as if the private teacher preparation system in Texas comes very close to the scandalous and very expensive (to students, parents, and the federal government - through very high default rates on guaranteed student loans) «private college» system which is currently being forced to clean up its act.

In 1998, Eugene Hickok, then Pennsylvania's secretary of education, revealed that his state's teacher preparation system provided «limited assurances of competence and quality,» leaving «the doors - open for C - plus students (or worse) to become teachers.»

Many schools did not participate in the study, and some aspects of California's teacher preparation system resulted in state schools being rated lower than in other states.

Section II presents the Mexican teacher preparation system.

In order to significantly improve elementary teacher preparation in the U.S., we need to incorporate a systemic approach that ties together the common features of the high - performing elementary teacher preparation systems identified in the report.

As work begins on the first comprehensive evaluation of the state's teacher preparation system in more than a decade, a widely respected math and science advocacy group is calling for sweeping change in support of STEM instruction.

The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010, as well as by the recently announced effort, led by NCATE, to overhaul the teacher preparation system.

NCTR believes states can use their authority under ESSA to support improvements in their teacher preparation systems through teacher residencies and by focusing on four main policy areas:

The problem is that our teacher preparation system remains largely mired in the constructivist, learner - centered, input - driven mold, with licensing primarily governed by the traditional college of education and regulatory compliance dominated routes, both to the classroom and the administrative offices.

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.

Sadly, the effort to undermine Connecticut's teacher preparation system and the value of teacher certification is nothing new for Malloy and his administration.

What this means for those of us who are concerned about «where we are going» is that the quality of our teacher preparation system is the absolutely critical element in the enhancement of the quality of our children's education.

So what is the quality of our teacher preparation system?