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VIDEO WEBCAST
Original broadcast date Tuesday, October 16, 2001
New Standards for Professional Development Schools Are Tool to
Address Teacher Quality and Shortage Issues
Teacher training in the ivory tower?
Not anymore. New standards for the clinical preparation of teachers
announce the dawn of a new day for teacher preparation. The new
standards, developed under the auspices of the National Council
for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), describe the teaching
profession's expectations for innovative institutions called Professional
Development Schools (PDSs). The implementation of these standards
provides a way to enhance teacher quality and help answer the teacher
shortage issue. Experts on PDSs, the new model of clinical preparation
for teachers, release the standards at:
Event Participants:
- Virginia Pilato, Chief of Program Approval and Assessment,
Maryland State Department of Education
- Robert Yinger, Dean of the School of Education, Baylor
University and
President, The Holmes Partnership
- Kathleen Gagne, PDS Coordinator, Chestnut Accelerated
Middle School Springfield, Massachusetts
- Marsha Levine, Director of the NCATE PDS Standards Project
Arthur Wise, NCATE President
PDSs are partnerships between colleges and universities and P-12
schools similar to teaching hospitals in the field of medicine,
where new physicians complete their training. PDSs are a growing
national trend-one-third of accredited teacher preparation institutions
are engaged in these innovative partnerships, Maryland and Louisiana
have recently enacted policy that requires all public teacher
preparation institutions to initiate PDSs, and policies encouraging
PDSs have been enacted in Georgia, South Carolina, and New Jersey.
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