Certification route doesn’t matter
Alternatively certified elementary teachers are as effective as those who took a traditional path to certification, concludes a Mathematica study for the U.S. Education Department. It didn’t matter...
View ArticleFast track to teaching
Mature professionals are using alternative certification to get into teaching, reports the New York Times. Twenty percent of new teachers now come through alternative routes. The story looks at Wylie...
View ArticleAccountability for education schools
How well are ed schools preparing tomorrow’s teachers? The National Center on Teacher Quality will evaluate the quality of the nation’s 1,400 education schools. . . . very little is known about the...
View Article40% of new teachers took alternative path
Forty percent of public school teachers hired since 2005 came through alternative preparation programs, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Information. That’s up from 22 percent...
View ArticleBrown: New teachers need apprenticeship
Ed Week‘s Teaching Ahead asks young teachers how teacher preparation should be changed. Several teachers who started after a crash course in teaching over the summer say they needed much more time to...
View ArticleUM crafts national standards for teacher ed
The University of Michigan’s TeachingWorks is developing national standards for teacher education, reports Inside Higher Ed. Aspiring English instructors were supposed to be mastering their craft in...
View ArticleLearning to teach — with avatars
No children were harmed in this teacher training exercise. Prospective teachers can practice their teaching skills on avatars in the Teach LivE lab, writes Sarah Butrymowicz on the Hechinger Report....
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Study: Alt-cert teachers are a bit better
Traditionally trained teachers aren’t more effective than those with alternative certifications, according to a recent meta-analysis, reports Liana Loewus in Education Week. Students whose teachers...
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