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Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Harmon, Kim; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2018
Purpose: A burgeoning literature investigates the importance of student teaching placements for teacher candidate development, but an important perspective that is largely missing from the existing literature is that of the school districts that host student teachers. In this paper, we describe the student teaching process from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, School Districts, Public Schools
Au, Wayne – Rethinking Schools, 2013
This author explains why he believes that teacher education is under attack. The same forces that are seeking to dismantle teachers' unions and de-professionalize teaching have their sights set on university-based teacher education programs. After all, logic decrees that if teachers are to blame for educational inequality--as corporate education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Testing Problems, Educational Change
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Meuwissen, Kevin W.; Choppin, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The edTPA is a teaching performance assessment (TPA) that the states of New York and Washington implemented as a licensure requirement in 2013. While TPAs are not new modes of assessment, New York and Washington are the first states to use the edTPA specifically as a compulsory, high-stakes policy lever in an effort to strengthen the quality and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Certification
Vavrus, Michael – 2003
This paper describes one aspect of a project that resulted in a required, common teacher candidate pedagogy assessment instrument for use by all teacher preparation programs in Washington State. It examines multicultural components embedded in the conceptual framework and instrument and the process leading to this product. It also describes a…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education