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Notes from Secretary Arne Duncan’s Speech . a stronger pre service fieldwork component focus on subject-matter competency and classroom-management techniques state action to gauge the success of teacher college graduates in classrooms
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Notes from Secretary Arne Duncan’s Speech a stronger pre service fieldwork component focus on subject-matter competency and classroom-management techniques state action to gauge the success of teacher college graduates in classrooms “Students sail in, but no one knows what happens to them after they come out,”
More Notes…. Mr. Duncan chided the many universities that treat their education programs as “cash cows” by diverting program revenues to more prestigious departments fail to coordinate among education programs and those in the arts and sciences
Secretary Duncan’s Speech states need to do their part by overhauling their program-approval process He highlighted Louisiana’s efforts to link graduates of its teacher-certification pathways into the classroom to track their effectiveness at boosting student performance
Secretary Duncan’s Speech Mr. Duncan highlighted the teacher-residency model, which embeds coursework into a yearlong student-teaching experience
finally…The U.S. Department of Education recently invested in residencies for the first time, and early next year will announce the recipients of $100 million in new residencies and other partnerships between universities, low-income school districts, and nonprofit organizations. ("Teacher 'Residencies' Get Federal Funding to Augment Training,"Oct. 14, 2009).