Teacher Preparation Evaluation Systems: What Would It Take to Put Equity at the Center?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

For the last two decades, there has been widespread attention to teacher preparation evaluation and accountability from both within and outside the field. In fact, accountability has been regarded by many policy and other actors as a key mechanism for “fixing” teacher preparation, which has repeatedly been characterized as a “broken” system. This session takes up questions related to equity and teacher preparation evaluation systems by focusing on intersecting roles, layers of contexts, and organizations and by bringing together presenters who are differently positioned. The major goal of the session is to consider what it would mean, what it would take, and what it would look like to make equity the central goal of teacher preparation evaluation systems    

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College

Papers

• Best Practices for Evaluating Teacher Preparation Programs: Centering Equity - Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College; Emilie Mitescu Reagan, Claremont Graduate University

• Learning to Teach for Equity, Social Justice, and Diversity: Do the Measures Measure Up? - Wen-Chia Claire Chang, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Refocusing Educator Preparation Evaluation With a Social Justice Lens: Eradicating the Monopoly - Stafford Hood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mary E. Dilworth, Independent Researcher

• National Teacher Education Accreditation With Equity at the Center: An Accreditor's Perspective - Mark W. LaCelle-Peterson, Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation

Discussant

• Maria del Carmen Salazar, University of Denver