At Ohio State University, which annually graduates more new
teachers than any other institution in America, a 12 - member «technology» group within the education faculty is working to develop courses and programs that will introduce students to the theory and operation of computers as teaching devices.
Not exact matches
School administrators seeking to hire new
teachers can not be confident that graduates of NCATE - accredited
institutions are likely to be better
teachers than other applicants.
Teacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and ret
Teacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more
than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of
teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and ret
teacher preparation
institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retention.
Many also are likely to be interested in outcomes
other than those measured by value - added, such as the number of
teachers, or types of
teachers that graduate from different
institutions.
National University recommends more
teachers for credentials
than any
other single
institution in California and holds more K - 12
teacher training contracts with elementary and secondary school districts
than any
other university in the state.
TFA trains more
teachers for low - income communities
than any
other organization or
institution in the nation.
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
More
than 50 % of college graduates attend more
than one higher education
institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of
teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and
other academic departments outside of
teacher education.
Foreign Language
Teachers work in various education
institutions and non-school settings and are in charge of instructing their students on
other languages
than their native ones.