Teachers for a New Era:
Technical Support and Capacity
Building
Teachers for a New Era is a landmark initiative designed to strengthen
K-12 teaching by developing state-of-the-art programs at schools
of education. With funding from Carnegie, Ford, and Annenberg,
this reform initiative has established three guiding principles
as critical in the redesign of schools that prepare teachers:
1)Leadership on the part of the presidents of supported institutions
that elevates the role and importance of schools of education
within the university community and a design that builds on research
evidence;
2)Top-level collaboration between university faculty in the arts
and sciences with
the school of education faculty to ensure that prospective teachers
are well grounded in specific disciplines and provided a liberal
arts education; and
3)Establishing teaching as a clinical profession, with students
mentored by master teachers in a formal two-year residency as
they make a transition from college to classroom.
AED provides technical support and capacity building to the higher
education institutions participating in the initiative. More specifically,
AED will be providing site support, technical assistance brokering,
and grantee management. AED convenes cross-site workshops and
institutes to deliver technical assistance and enhance sites’
capacities to achieve the goals articulated in the Teachers for
a New Era prospectus. AED will also establish and maintain
a project-specific website and disseminate information about the
project through conferences and a quarterly electronic newsletter.
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join us at TNE website.
