TLINC Highlighted in New Digital Learning Series Paper

Posted by NCTAF on June 6, 2012 in Featured, TLINC | 0 comments

The Alliance for Excellent Education’s recent paper, “Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning,” articulates the critical need for teacher preparation to focus more on student learning: “Teacher education […] is at a critical juncture. It must be focused less on learning about teaching and focus more directly on teaching for student learning. We have to front-load clinical experiences and then deepen those experiences with the full engagement of Master teachers.” The paper highlights NCTAF’s TLINC® initiative as a good example of how to build purposeful relationships between teacher preparation institutions and K-12 districts. TLINC helps to align teachers’ training and practice and to maximize clinical training and induction experiences so future teachers have a better understanding of how to support student learning. “TLINC encourages discussions and connections between university work and classroom experiences and builds a feedback loop for graduates with their teacher preparation programs,” enabling teacher education faculty and district personnel to collaborate on continual improvement of their programs.

To read the report, please click here.

Author

Sofia Rivkin-Haas, Program Manager, leads the Teachers Learning in Networked Communities (TLINC) projects and contributes to NCTAF’s research and grant writing. Sofia also co-manages social media outreach and writes for the NCTAF blog, in which she regularly analyzes and responds to current trends in education research and news.