Educators and policymakers across the United States recognize a growing urgency to improve the nation's systems of teacher preparation. Ensuring that teachers stay and thrive in the profession depends largely on having system-wide policies and practices in place that address teacher shortages, promote equity and excellence, and cultivate expertise, diversity, and more.
The California State University (CSU) system partnered with the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation to launch the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI), in an effort to transform the nature and quality of teacher preparation at both individual CSU campuses and across the CSU system as a whole. To answer the question, "What does it take to transform teacher education?" WestEd and SRI International conducted an evaluation to examine and share learnings about the CSU-led effort to implement large-scale clinically oriented teacher preparation reform.
As part of a series of new evaluation reports that explore key transformational elements of effective teacher preparation programs, this paper identifies key levers to put high-quality clinical experience—that is, the opportunity to practice the work of teaching in classrooms—at the center of teacher preparation. Findings in this report explore the following high-leverage strategies to strengthen the clinical orientation of teacher preparation programs:
Lever 1: Identify prioritized skills
Lever 2: Select or create a rubric to assess candidate proficiency with prioritized skills
Lever 3: Integrate and expand opportunities to practice prioritized skills
Lever 4: Re-conceptualize clinical roles, selection, and support
Lever 5: Define and implement processes to provide formative feedback to candidates on prioritized skills
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- North America / United States (Western) / California / Fresno County / Fresno
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Sacramento County / Sacramento
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Los Angeles County / Long Beach
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Butte County / Chico
- North America / United States (Western) / California (Central Valley) / Stanislaus
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Channel Islands
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Kern County / Bakersfield
- North America / United States (Western) / California/ Orange County / Fullerton
- North America / United States (Western) / California / San Luis Obispo County / San Luis Obispo
- North America / United States (Western) / California / Monterey County/ Monterey