Six-part strategy for assuring qualified teachers for all students¶

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Description¶

The article lays out six elements of a strategy to assure highly qualified teachers: standards for entry into the profession, accountability measures for colleges and universities that prepare teachers, professional development for existing teachers, assurance that poor and minority children have teachers at least as qualified as others, parent right-to-know policies, and recruitment and rewards to attract the best into teaching. It states these are "the more powerful ideas we have gleaned from our work with leading states and cities" and urges acting before every piece of the puzzle is in hand.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Concerted action from policymakers, K-12 and higher education leaders, teacher unions, and parents, since no single party can win alone

Constraints¶

• The article concedes it does not yet have all the answers and that existing licensure examinations may be too low to assure content knowledge

Target Learners¶

• Poor and minority K-12 students
• All K-12 students
• Prospective teachers

Target Learning Goals¶

• Access to well-qualified teachers across all subjects
• Closing achievement gaps between groups

Related Strategies¶

• Federal policy should expand access to high-quality, integrated early care and education with quality assurance and adequate ECE educator compensation
• Sequenced multi-year investment plan across teacher and principal pipelines, early childhood, high-poverty schools, funding, and assessment and accountability to achieve Leandro compliance

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Haycock, Kati. (1998). Good Teaching Matters: How Well-Qualified Teachers Can Close the Gap. Thinking K-16, v3 n2. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED457260