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Kaput, Krista – Education Evolving, 2019
In 2018, the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) opened rulemaking on the Standards of Effective Practice, which are the core set of knowledge and skills that all teacher candidates in Minnesota teacher preparation programs learn. Opening these regulations has created the opportunity for Minnesota to start rethinking how…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Standards, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Olson, Jennifer D.; Rao, Arthi B. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
The edTPA, a national performance assessment for teacher candidates, has seen rapid adoption across the country since its development in 2009. Against the national backdrop of high stakes testing and accountability, the edTPA was developed to be an indicator of teachers' readiness to teach. The varying perspectives and responses to edTPA in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Preservice Teachers
Markos, Amy Michele – Issues in Teacher Education, 2012
In this article, the author describes pre-service teachers' understandings of English language learners (ELLs) and the ways that their understandings evolved through participation in a Structured English Immersion (SEI) course. To provide the context of this study, the author begins with a brief review of recent policies in Arizona that affect the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reflective Teaching, English Language Learners