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| Strengthening Teacher Preparation Systems or Creating New Ones?
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Bryan Hassel, Founder and Co-Director, Public Impact
William C. Wilson, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Teacher Education Evaluation and Assurance, California State University
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Moderator:
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Nikola Filby, Associate Director, Western Regional Educational Laboratory, WestEd
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Strand(s):
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Incentives to Attract High-Quality Teachers to Hard-to-Staff Schools
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| Description: | State-supported Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), long vital in preparing the K-12 teacher workforce, are under pressure. Demands for more and better teachers have intensified the debate between those who would tighten IHE accountability by raising program or certification requirements versus those who would give schools and districts more freedom to hire, reducing certification or preparation requirements. One proposal aims to have a number of state-approved providers outside the California State University system to establish greater competition and options. This session examines how to improve teacher preparation systems.
Inquiry Questions:
- What strategies are state-supported universities using to recruit, prepare, and support a well-qualified teaching force?
- Can large bureaucracies (e.g., IHE) change? What does it take? What are the limits?
- What might a different systemic approach look like? What positive effects would the new approach promise? What concerns might it raise?
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