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FACTE Fall Conference

Explore teacher shortages, legislative impacts, and strategies to maintain relevance in education. Understand shifts in teacher preparation, certification, and the evolving landscape of education policies. Discover how to adapt to changes and influence decision-making in education.

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FACTE Fall Conference

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  1. FACTE Fall Conference Teacher Preparation and the legislative process October 17, 2019 Cathy Boehme, NBCT FEA Legislative Specialist

  2. Teacher shortages by the numbers

  3. Teacher shortages by the numbers

  4. Teacher shortages and public policies Demand • Increase in students • Increases in Retirement, Resignation, Non-reappointments • Instructional coaches and other functions • Class size pressures Supply • Fewer students entering professional preparation programs: • Less attractive salaries? • Low status profession? • Challenging internship conditions? • Challenging working conditions? • Alternative routes perceived as more flexible, less time, lower cost? • Barriers to college and program admission? • Tests and disparate impacts • Schedules

  5. Maintaining Relevance and opportunities • Initial teacher preparation • Alternative teacher certification: certification and skill support • Continuing education skill development • Basic research: student and adult learning • Applied research: program and tactical efficacy • Social-emotional health: research and skill support • Maintaining classroom order/student discipline/classroom management • Addressing gaps: ESE, social, racial-ethnic, income and access

  6. Finding balance • Art and craft of teaching • Practical knowledge • Theoretical knowledge • Addressing the latest buzz and the silver bullet • Social-Emotional Learning • Leadership and Change Management • Experiential Learning • Inquiry Learning • Learning Styles • Direct Instruction • Conducting research • Theoretical knowledge • Practical knowledge

  7. What has changed in 10 years? • Budget pressures increase (less funding for education) • Declining enrollment in Teacher Preparation • Increased scrutiny of program content • Emphasis on reading process skills, reduced emphasis on core content knowledge • Evaluation of Teacher Preparation programs • Reduced requirements to begin teaching without teacher preparation • Requiring districts to offer alternative certification • Increased requirements for certificate renewal • Technology and distance learning

  8. What has changed in 5 years? • Higher Education performance funding • Program evaluation criteria focus on output measures • Increased emphasis on reading instruction (direct process instruction) • Removing incentives for advanced degrees • Budget pressures increase (less funding for education) • Mentoring requirements • Teacher Preparation supervisor requirements • Increasing certification testing standards ( Raising the Bar, again)

  9. What has changed in 1 year? • Content Standards (scrub Common Core from Florida Standards) • Statutesand Administrative Rules: • Certification fees • Mentoring • Reading • Teacher Preparation (IPEP) requirements • Guidance and Counseling and Social Work • School Safety and Incident Preparation

  10. Who are your consumers? • Our students • Their students • Schools and school districts • Florida taxpayers

  11. Who are the influencers? • Consumers? • Researchers? • Business interests? • Governmental Think Tanks?

  12. Who are the deciders? • Legislature? • Executive Branch? • Judicial Branch? • Constituents? • Voters?

  13. Why won’t they leave us alone? • What is the intent of the change? • What do the changes do? • Why do they think there should be change? • What do we think about the changes? • What can we do to shape the changes? • How would we make the proposal better? • Who is behind the changes? (Follow the money?) • How will the changes affect our colleges/departments? • How will the changes affect your high education students? • How will the changes affect the students in pre-k-12 classrooms?

  14. Marketing 101 • Who defines YOU? • What do your consumers/influencers/deciders want? • What are you doing well? • How do you know? • How do others know? • What isn’t working and how will you improve? • Who is telling your story? • How can you (they) tell it better, louder?

  15. What do you have to offer?How will they Know?

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