Academic Preparation for Teaching - Meeting on August 15-16, 2005
QUALITY TEACHER PREPARATION: STRONG ACADEMIC PREPARATION FOR TEACHING
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) hosted an invitational meeting, Quality Teacher Preparation: Strong Academic Preparation for Teaching, at The George Washington University on August 15-16, 2005. This meeting was one of two scheduled as follow-up to NCTAF's June 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation. (The second follow-up meeting focused on assessment of teacher preparation programs and convened in September at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.) These meetings were sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Eight institutions participated in the August meeting, including: CUNY-Brooklyn; East Carolina University; The George Washington University; New York University; Southeastern Louisiana University; University of Cincinnati; University of Southern Maine; and West Virginia University. Each institution put together a seven-member team consisting of campus representatives (including either the president or provost and the deans of education and arts and sciences), two state-level policymakers and two district-level practitioners.
Meeting Materials:
- Read the meeting summary
- The meeting agenda
- The keynote address from the Honorable Richard W. Riley, a NCTAF Co-Chair
- See NCTAF's Vision for Strong Academic Preparation for Teaching, a PowerPoint presentation by NCTAF President Tom Carroll
- The participant list
- An excerpt from, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, published by the National Academy of Sciences
- A slideshow presentation on the How People Learn research -- presented by Suzanne Donovan, the Program Director of the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) Institute, an organization launched from the National Academy of Sciences to create a research and development program focused on the problems of classroom and school practice.
- The self-assessment tool
- NCTAF Recommendations for Teacher Preparation
- HEA Reauthorization-Recent History and Opportunities for Progress, an overview presented by NCTAF
- An executive summary of NCTAF's 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation
- A handout on Louisiana's Teacher Preparation Programs: Four Levels of Effectiveness
- A handout from the University of Southern Maine on its initial teacher certification programs.
Click here to view the background materials.
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