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For The Public Good: Quality Preparation For Every Teacher, Karen Demoss
For The Public Good: Quality Preparation For Every Teacher, Karen Demoss
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The Sustainable Funding Project at Bank Street College of Education was established to address a significant problem in public education: how to ensure that all aspiring teaches are prepared through affordable, high-quality programs so that every teacher enters the profession ready for the demands of 21st century classrooms. This report tackles quality sustained clinical practice as one part of the affordability question.
The Essa Opportunity For Residencies, Bank Street College Of Education
The Essa Opportunity For Residencies, Bank Street College Of Education
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states and districts with a renewed opportunity to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning in schools by explicitly incorporating well-designed year-long pre-service co-teaching placements (“residencies”) into state ESSA applications as an allowable and encouraged use of funds. While “preservice” teacher preparation is not frequently conceptualized as an allowable use of these federal funds, when well designed preparation programs include funded, year-long co-teaching residencies, they address many of the goals contained within ESSA and contribute to the systemic educational improvements sought by states and districts.
Selected Research Supporting Sustainable Funding For Quality Teacher Preparation, Bank Street College
Selected Research Supporting Sustainable Funding For Quality Teacher Preparation, Bank Street College
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In countries where school systems have improved dramatically, pre-service teacher education has become more integrated with the regular school system. Aspiring teachers, while studying for their certification, are paid to practice under the guidance of an effective classroom teacher for a full year before seeking certification. Increasingly, evidence from the U.S. also indicates that such a model is effective. In fact, four persistent teacher quality challenges facing schools and districts can be positively impacted through the establishment of funded year-long pre-service clinical placement.