The High-Stakes Testing/Common Core Connection to New Teacher Ed. Regulations
High-stakes testing, Common Core and teacher education are all interconnected. Controlling for all three is a privatization package deal.
For years, there has been a push to deprofessionalize teaching and that includes going to the heart of what makes a good teacher—teacher education. By doing so, the school reformers change the way teachers work.
Not only are teachers more likely to be temporary, like Teach for America (TFA), they will be followers instead of leaders. They won’t be innovative and focus on the individual/personal needs of the student.
They will be fast-track workers who administer nonstop assessment and implement Common Core aligned curriculum to reach Common Core State Standards.
Data will mean everything to the new breed of teacher. If you examine the focus of every fast-track program, you will find it centers on high-stakes testing and data collection.
The new teacher won’t study and learn about child and adolescent development and base their decisions on real research. They will follow the script.
As many of you might have heard, new federal regulations have been drafted concerning teacher education and they are a serious concern. The kinds of changes, if they are approved, will create a teaching workforce focused on what I noted above.
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC), well-respected scholars, presented a review showing that the new federal teacher regulations to be approved on February 4, 2015 will do harm to teacher education. Kevin K. Kumashiro who is the dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and who has written award-winning books about education, examined the draft of the new regulations and broke down what they mean to the teaching profession. His “vital policy concerns” are The High-Stakes Testing/Common Core Connection to New Teacher Ed. Regulations:
For years, there has been a push to deprofessionalize teaching and that includes going to the heart of what makes a good teacher—teacher education. By doing so, the school reformers change the way teachers work.
Not only are teachers more likely to be temporary, like Teach for America (TFA), they will be followers instead of leaders. They won’t be innovative and focus on the individual/personal needs of the student.
They will be fast-track workers who administer nonstop assessment and implement Common Core aligned curriculum to reach Common Core State Standards.
Data will mean everything to the new breed of teacher. If you examine the focus of every fast-track program, you will find it centers on high-stakes testing and data collection.
The new teacher won’t study and learn about child and adolescent development and base their decisions on real research. They will follow the script.
As many of you might have heard, new federal regulations have been drafted concerning teacher education and they are a serious concern. The kinds of changes, if they are approved, will create a teaching workforce focused on what I noted above.
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC), well-respected scholars, presented a review showing that the new federal teacher regulations to be approved on February 4, 2015 will do harm to teacher education. Kevin K. Kumashiro who is the dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and who has written award-winning books about education, examined the draft of the new regulations and broke down what they mean to the teaching profession. His “vital policy concerns” are The High-Stakes Testing/Common Core Connection to New Teacher Ed. Regulations:
