Teacher Preparation at New Graduate Schools of Education: Studying a Controversial Innovation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session focuses on a controversial innovation intended to relocate teacher preparation at “new graduate schools of education” (nGSEs), which: are unaffiliated with universities, offer pre-professional teacher education for 9-12+ months, endorse new teachers, and grant master’s degrees. Most nGSEs are founded by charter school leaders to supply beginning teachers for charter and urban schools. Advocates characterize nGSEs as a dramatic departure from both fast-track entry routes, which they perceive as recruitment not preparation, and “traditional” university programs, which they perceive as overly theoretical and failing to produce effective teachers. The purpose of this session is to present analyses from a cross-case study of teacher preparation at nGSEs conducted by a research team with unprecedented access to multiple nGSE sites.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 09: Teacher Education Innovation, Policy, and Research

Chair

• Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College

Papers

• Studying Teacher Preparation at New Graduate Schools of Education (nGSEs) - Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College

• Creating Jaw-Droppingly Effective Rookie Teachers: Teacher Preparation at Sposato Graduate School of Education (Match Education) - Andrew Frederic Miller, Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Schools Office; Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Lesley University

• A Case Study of Teacher Preparation at High Tech High Graduate School of Education - Juan Gabriel Sanchez, Boston College

• Preparing Teachers in the Digital Age: A Case Study of the Educatore School of Education - Molly Cummings Carney, Boston College

Discussant

• Ana Maria Villegas, Montclair State University