1. Teacher Education Update November 30, 2017

3. The Michigan Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE) exists to promote, within Michigan, the learning of all PK-12 students through the promotion of high quality preparation and continuing education for all school personnel.

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MACTE Board Jim Rooks Calvin College Anne Tapp Saginaw Valley State University Betty Kirby Central Michigan University Joe Lubig Northern Michigan University Doug Braschler Hope College Hakim Shahid Madonna University Caryn King Grand Valley State University Beth Kubitskey Eastern Michigan University Sally Rae Siena Heights University Susan English Aquinas College

5. Teacher Education Chaotic
Becoming a teacher-complex/simple
Hypercritical period for schools of education; teachers
Time of unprecedented change

6. State and National Challenges
Teacher shortage
Substitute teacher shortage
Changing demographics
Our children

7. Teacher Shortage A decline in teacher preparation enrollments,
9,665 teaching certificates awarded to MI applicants in 2004; 3,696 in 2016
District efforts to return to pre-recession pupil-teacher ratios,
Increasing student enrollment, and
High teacher attrition.
Sutcher, L., Darling-Hammond, L., & Carver-Thomas, D. (2016). A coming crisis in teaching? Teacher
supply, demand, and shortages in the U.S.. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute.

8. Teacher Shortage
Almost all states report special education teacher shortages
Michigan critical shortage list
While we used to focus on innovative ways to teach students; we now seem to focus on innovative ways to find teachers
High turnover, low interest

9. Why? 8% turnover of teachers a year
$$$ - beginning teachers make about 20% less than college grads in other fields
Working conditions
Teacher preparation
Toxic political environment/public opinion

11. Response to Shortage
Alternative credentialing routes and experimental programs
Current certified staff
* Full year shortage and basic sub permits
Student teachers
Daily and full-year basic sub permits
Paraprofessionals
Annual CTE authorization, full-year basic and expert sub permits

12. Alternative credentialing route
Teachers of Tomorrow - allows individuals to begin working as ‘teachers’ while gaining certification online.
“Reducing the qualifications to become a certified teacher is yet another avenue to deprofessionalizing the teaching profession.”
- David Crim MEA

13. Substitute Teacher Shortage
4/2017 Every day roughly 1,200 substitute positions in Michigan classrooms are unfilled*
Part of what is causing the substitute shortage is a law passed in December, Public Act 219 of 2015, that requires school districts to pay an extra percent if they hire as a substitute a teacher who retired after June 30, 2010.
* Fox17 News Need for Substitute Teachers –Solution for Shortage 4/25/17

14. Changing Demographics
2014 – Majority/Minority Milestone
% of 3.4 million school teachers were non-Hispanic white; 7 % non-Hispanic black;
8% Hispanic
National imperative to bridge cultural divide

15. Michigan’s Children 1 in 5 children in poverty
34% in single-parent homes
17% live in high-poverty areas (55%/29%)
46% subsidized lunch
54% not meeting 3rd grade reading standards
67% of 8th graders not meeting math standards
Dismal NAEP scores

16. Teacher Education Chaos to Strategic Convergence?
Opportunity
Becoming a teacher – creative approaches
Hypercritical period for schools of education; teachers/appreciation and value
Rigorous standards/scaffolded practice

17. Raising the Bar National Accreditation - CAEP
Partnership Agreement between the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation and the Michigan Department of Education ( )

18. National Accreditation - CAEP
Content and Pedagogical Knowledge
Clinical Practice and Partnerships
Quality and Selectivity of Candidates
Program Impact
Quality Assurances

19. Clinical Practice Seismic shift Heart of teacher education programs
Field-based
Modeling, practice, feedback, alignment
Shift towards stronger partnership agreements with Pk-20
Residency models

21. PRE/SAT
Professional dispositions
Professional competencies – end of program
Program impact data
Accreditation

22. Questions?