Tag » preparation

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  Preparing Teachers for the Future

  1/5/09 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU

  As American schools seek to accommodate an increasing range of students, teachers are challenged as never before. When students with disabilities, linguistic differences or other unique abilities join general education classrooms, even willing teachers fear their lack of training and preparation to deal with such differences make their role as primary teacher inappropriate and inadequate.

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  Reconceptualizing Continuing Professional Development: A Framework for Planning

  1/1/06 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Teachers’ professional preparation, along with their working conditions, has been identified as fundamental to improving elementary and secondary education for the 21st Century (Darling-Hammond, 1997). A recent report by the National Center for Education Statistics (1997) reveals that many teachers are not adequately prepared for their teaching assignments even at initial licensure. This situation is worse in urban districts where significant numbers of teachers are not licensed, where...

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  Chicago Public Schools

  1/25/07 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Chicago Public Schools plans to be the premier urban school district in the country by providing all their students and their families with high quality instruction, outstanding academic programs, and comprehensive student development supports to prepare them for the challenges of the world of tomorrow.

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  Improving Education: The Promise of Inclusive Schooling

  1/28/07 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Audrey Desjarlais, Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU

  The purpose of education is to ensure that every student gains access to knowledge, skills, and information that will prepare them to contribute to America’s communities and workplaces. This central purpose is made more challenging as schools must accommodate students with ever more diverse backgrounds, abilities, and interests. For students with disabilities, achieving this common purpose means thinking again about the consequences of special and general education as separate systems, and...

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  Principals of Inclusive Schools

  1/10/09 - Christine Salisbury , Gail McGregor, Equity Alliance at ASU

  School leaders play an important role in promoting and sustaining change in schools. Without their efforts, schools cannot change or improve to become places where all students are welcome, and where all students learn essential academic and non-academic lessons in preparation for life in the community. Nowhere is this initiative more important than in urban schools where many students have been left behind, shunted aside, or asked to learn with poor or inadequate buildings, materials, and...

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  Walkthrough Planning Guide

  1/5/09 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This document provides guidance on how to prepare for a building walkthrough, what to do during and after the walkthrough. It contains both group and individual feedback forms. (Focus on Results 2001).

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  Teaching for a new world: Preparing high school educators to deliver college- and career-ready instruction

  1/9/09 - M Miller

  "This brief offers a new conception for secondary teacher preparation that ensures candidates are able to prepare students for college and career success after high school,a encourages a shift to the skills, knowledge, and competencies candidates should have once they become classroom teachers of record, highlights the need for improved teacher performance assessments and data systems, and contemplates how federal policy can support the realization of these goals. "

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  Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

  1/22/10 - Chrys Dougherty

  "This report focuses on identifying students who have large academic preparation gaps entering high school and developing databases that can be used to identify promising interventions for those students. Section 2 discusses how to disaggregate poorly prepared students based on the size of their academic preparation gaps relative to college and career readiness targets on state and national tests. Section 3 reports on research at the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) on the...

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  Developing Pathways to Postsecondary Success

  1/3/09 - Laura Hand, Benah Parker, Sybil Francis

  High school can no longer be the socially accepted endpoint of a student’s education. It is time to work towards a transition between high school and postsecondary that is as seamless as the transition from middle school to high school. Real and perceived barriers to entry to postsecondary need to be addressed, and pathways towards postsecondary education should be created in order to achieve this goal. The current assumption that postsecondary is unnecessary for many students has...

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  Key issue: Preparing teachers effectively for at-risk schools

  1/3/09 - Lasagna, M.

  This Key Issue includes strategies used in the preparation of beginning teachers for at-risk schools.

• Models for preparing culturally responsive special education personnel

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  Provides descriptions of personnel preparation programs that are culturally and linguistically responsive.

• PART III: CREATING MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS: Under-Prepared Students: Essentials beyond Academics

  1/1/07 - Ford, Theron N., Glimps, Blanche, Giallourakis, Angie

  Teacher education programs continue to struggle with preparing highly qualified teachers ready to meet the academic, cultural, exceptionality and linguistic challenges, which are increasingly the reality of American's classrooms. Despite increased academic rigor in such programs, many emerging teachers are still ill prepared to each effectively students from cultural and racial backgrounds different from their own. The article asserts that this is due in part to a lack of an appropriate...

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  Preparing high school students for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

  1/5/09 - Bangser, Michael

  This issue brief highlights lessons from selected policies and programs designed to improve students’ preparation for postsecondary pathways. The publication summarizes core characteristics of popular interventions in a user-friendly chart, poses overarching implementation questions and challenges, and includes considerations for students with disabilities.

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  Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners

  1/30/09 - Kristen McGraner, Laura Saenz

  This Issue Paper presents a review of the policy environment for ELL instruction and the preparation of mainstream teachers toa ddress the needs of ELL students.

• Program content that fosters culturally relevant pedagogy

  The National Technical Assistance Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education Minority Institutions of Higher Education (Monarch Center),

  Provides resources that describe curriculum, specific learning tasks, assignments, and practices. In general, these resources focus on how higher education faculty can prepare future professionals to use methods and techniques that are successful with culturally diverse populations of students.

• School counselors: Becoming key players in school reform

  1/1/02 - House, Reese M., Hayes, Richard L.

  This article presents the view that school counselors must be proactive leaders who are effective collaborators in advocating for the success of all students. Closing the existing achievement gap between poor students and students of color and their more advantaged peers is the focused mission of schools today. School counselors need to be integral players in helping all students gain access to rigorous academic preparation that will lead to greater opportunity for all students. By helping...