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Reports and Papers on Personnel Preparation
EIGHT QUESTIONS ON TEACHER PREPARATION: WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY? (2003). Education Commission of the States (Michael Allen) - Based on a review
of 92 studies with rigorous criteria, the report addresses eight aspects of teacher preparation, including coursework, field experiences, and alternative route programs.
Summary and full text.
http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/educationIssues/teachingquality/tpreport/index.asp
EMPLOYMENT AND PREPARATION OF PARAEDUCATORS: THE STATE OF THE ART 2003. (April 2003). National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals, Utah State University (Anna Lou Pickett, Marilyn Likins, & Teri Wallace). - The 7th in a series of State of the Art Reports, this paper provides policymakers and administrators in State and local education agencies, higher education faculty and administrators, and other stakeholders with information they can build on as they work together to address issues and practices for the employment, training/education, and supervision of paraeducators. Emphasis is placed on (a) development of standards for paraeducator roles, preparation, and supervision, and (b) the need to prepare teachers to supervise and work effectively with paraeducators. Full text.
http://www.nrcpara.org/resources/stateoftheart/index.php
EVERY CHILD MATHEMATICALLY PROFICIENT: AN ACTION PLAN OF THE LEARNING FIRST ALLIANCE. (1998). Learning First Alliance - Proposes curriculum and assessment reform in math instruction. Also recommends that: (a) all students of math should be taught by teachers who have been prepared in math content and techniques of teaching math;
(b) certification standards should be established for the preparation and professional development of teachers of math in grades 5-9; and (c) a closer link should be created between research findings and professional preparation and development. Full text.
http://www.learningfirst.org/publicaiions/math/
PREPARED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EXCELLENCE IN ELEMENTARY TEACHER PREPARATION IN READING INSTRUCTION. (2003). International Reading Association (J. V. Hoffman, Chair) -- Reports the results and recommendations stemming from a major research study of the preparation of classroom teachers in reading. The executive summary, details on critical features of effective programs, and a guide for strategic planning may be downloaded.
http://www.reading.org/downloads/resources/1061teacher_ed_com_summary.pdf
PREPARING EDUCATORS FOR SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: RESULTS OF A NATIONAL SURVEY OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. (1999). Center for Research on Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University (Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis, G. Sanders, & Laural A.Clark) - Report of a survey of deans and chairs of education in 161 institutions, which revealed a dramatic gap between their beliefs about the importance of educators' competence to work effectively with students' families and communities and the low preparedness of graduates to do so. Full text.
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/techReports/Report34.pdf
PREPARING OUR TEACHERS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR BETTER READING INSTRUCTION. (2002). New Brunswick Group, National Academies Press (Dorothy Strickland, Catherine Snow, Peg Griffin, M. Susan Burns, & Peggy McNamara) -
Extracts information from the 1998 report of the National Research Council to outline what classroom teachers need to be able to do to give children in preschool through grade 4 the essential opportunities to become good readers. Also discusses what teacher education programs should do to prepare teachers who are effective in reading instruction. Full text.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10130.html
PREPARING TEACHERS AROUND THE WORLD. (2003). Educational Testing Service (Aubrey H. Wang, Ashaki B. Coleman, Richard J. Coley, & Richard P. Phelps) - Examines policies and control mechanisms that high-performing countries use to shape the quality of the teaching force. Covers (a) control and governance, (b) entry and exit standards, (c) certification practices, (d) alternative routes, (d)compensation, (e) tenure, and other factors. Seven high-performing countries are examined and compared with the United States (Australia, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and Singapore) . Full text.
http://www.monarchcenter.org/pdfs/prepteach.pdf
PREPARING TEACHERS TO WORK WITH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SPECIAL AND GENERAL TEACHER EDUCATION. (February 2002). AACTE Focus Council on Special Education
(G. Thomas Bellamy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Chair) - Reviews expectations within the context of IDEA that all teacher education will be standards-
based; new teachers will be judged by the performance of their students; and teachers must place increased emphasis on academic performance. The report explores new possibilities and challenges for preservice programs, with an emphasis on greater congruity between general and special education preparation. Full text.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/29/d1/78.pdf
STUDY OF PERSONNEL NEEDS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION (SPeNSE) - As part of the national assessment of IDEA mandated by Congress, SPeNSE examined (a) the extent to which personnel are adequately prepared to serve students with disabilities, (b) variation in personnel preparation, and (c) factors that explain that variation. Final reports are shown.
Also see SPeNSE's paper on Special Education Teacher Quality in the 24th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of IDEA (Section I).
http://ferdig.coe.ufl.edu/spense/ (SPeNSE web site)
http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/osep/2002/index.html (24th Annual Report)
TEACHER INEQUALITY: NEW EVIDENCE OF DISPARITIES IN TEACHERS' ACADEMIC SKILLS. (June 13, 2002). Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(30) (Andrew J. Wayne, SRI International) - Points out that teacher certification, degrees, and experience have become benchmarks of teachers' qualifications, partly because of a lack of additional teacher quality indicators. The focus of this article is teachers' academic skills. "National data on teachers' entrance examination scores and college selectivity reveal substantial disparities by school poverty level. The findings commend attention to the gap in academic skills in the formulation of future policy and research on the teacher quality gap." Full text.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n30/
TEACHER PREPARATION RESEARCH: CURRENT KNOWLEDGE, GAPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS. (2001). Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy,
University of Washington. (Suzanne M. Wilson, Robert E. Flooden, & Joan Ferrini-
Mundy, Michigan State University) - An examination of studies about teacher preparation
to address five research questions on (a) subject matter preparation, (b) pedagogical preparation, (c) clinical training, (d) policies and practices to improve and sustain the
quality of preservice teacher education, and (e) components and characteristics of high-quality alternative certification programs. Full text.
http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/PDFs/TeacherPrep-WFFM-02-2001.pdf
TEACHER QUALITY: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHER ATTRIBUTES. (2003). Economic Policy Institute (Jennifer King Rice, University of Maryland) - Reviews research to draw conclusions on the characteristics that appear to
be linked with teacher effectiveness. The author uses five categories of measurable indicators to organize the characteristics assumed to reflect teacher quality: (a) experience; (b) preparation programs and degrees; (c) certification; (d) coursework; and (c) test scores. The executive summary and Chapter 1-Introduction may be downloaded.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_teacher_quality_execsum_intro
TEACHING READING IS ROCKET SCIENCE: WHAT EXPERT TEACHERS OF READING SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO. (1999). American Federation of Teachers - Reviews research on effective reading instruction; recommends a research-based core curriculum for teacher preparation; and calls for other changes in teacher preparation and professional development in reading. Full text.
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/downloads/teachers/rocketsci.pdf
*See the upcoming Monarch web strand on Federal and State Requirements and
Initiatives for reports and guidance relevant to personnel preparation from the
U.S. Department of Education.
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