Schools of education are changing their approaches as needed to help improve the content knowledge and skills of prospective teachers, said Dr. Sharon P. Robinson, president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. “There is considerable work to be done,” she said. “But we are not standing still.”
Many of these improvements focus on better use of data and new methods to work with ELL and special education students, she said.
Another promising approach for schools of education is working with inner-city school districts on teacher training. With the city of Detroit, Michigan State University has an urban teaching program in which students focus specifically on at-risk students and perform their student teaching in such an environment.
So far, the initiative is developing a cadre of teachers enthusiastic about working with at-risk youth, says Daniel Fallon, program director at the Carnegie Corp., which is supporting the effort. With increasing student enrollment, “It’s been one of the big growth areas at Michigan State,” he says.
--Charles Dervarics
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