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Appendix C Nontraditional K-12 Teacher Preparation Programs
Appendix C Nontraditional K-12 Teacher Preparation Programs
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As noted in Chapter 3, none of these is a program to train new and recent PhDs for K12 teaching, but they do offer ideas about approaches to consider in designing a program for potential teachers. UTEACH History and Goals UTeach is an innovative program at the University of Texas at Austin that prepares science and mathematics majors to teach in secondary schools (see http://www.uteach.utexas.edu)
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Concerned that this potential population of future teachers was not being tapped, the dean called on three outstanding secondary school teachers from the local school district and an assessment expert to propose an ideal teacher training program in science and mathematics. During the summer of 1997, this group developed a framework for a 4-year course of study, taking into account university regulations, and paying close attention to recently modified state and national guidelines.
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Classroom Teaching Experiences In accordance with new national guidelines for teacher preparation that recommend early field-based experience, UTeach students enrolled in the introductory Step classes begin carefully supervised classroom teaching in local elementary school classrooms during their first semester in the program. Entering students begin with Step 1, the introductory field-based course that places preservice teachers in elementary classrooms.
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THE MIDGAREER MATH AND SCIENCE PROGRAM History and Goals Established in 1983, the Harvard Graduate School of Education's MidCareer Math and Science (MCMS) Program was designed to address the shortage of well-qualified, secondary teachers in mathematics and the sciences specifically by providing a venue for mid-career professionals from non-educational but technically oriented fields to enter careers as secondaryscience and mathematics teachers.
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In addition, the MidCareer Math and Science Program is designed to address the larger goals of the Harvard Teacher Education Program, including: · to prepare teachers for the specific challenges of urban education including providing high quality instruction for all students, addressing the causes of unequal access in our educational system, and creating classrooms and schools where previously unsuccessful students can succeed; · to prepare teachers to facilitate students' understandings and capacities to construct knowledge through a deep understanding of literacy and to assume new leadership roles within schools by developing skills to participate in organizational diagnosis and change leadership activities; and · to demonstrate that teaching can be a life-long career with multiple stages and aspects of growth typical of adult development by starting novice teachers on a path toward National Board Certification. In carrying out these objectives, the MCMS Program works closely with cooperating urban middle and high schools in preparing its candidates for teaching.
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Classroom Teaching Experiences Extensive fieldwork in secondary school classrooms is the centerpiece ofthe graduate studies of MCMS candidates. MCMS candidates complete their field-based requirements in a public high or middle school, working with experienced, state-certified teachers in urban schools within the greater Boston area that belong to Harvard's Professional School Partnership.
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During their clinical experiences, candidates enrolled in a seminar designed to support their systematic reflection on their implementation of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Coursework MCMS candidates complete the equivalent of nine courses to fulfill requirements for a masters in education and state certification.
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A goal of the program is to help these districts with few resources to provide a high-quality education to their students. The school districts hire and pay corps members as regular beginning teachers.
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They also learn basic teaching skills, such as curricular planning around clear goals, effective lesson design, student assessment, classroom management techniques, and literacy development. In the mornings and early afternoons of the institute, corps members teach in a summer school program.
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Other alumni are graduate students in education. An independent evaluation of the effect of the program's teachers on student performance in the Houston Independent School District was conducted in 2001 by CREDO, a research group based at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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