Resources Related to the Recruitment,
Preparation, and
Induction of Teachers
ORGANIZATIONS
Academic,
Professional, Governmental, & Public Service Agencies &
Associations
State Education
Agencies
- National
Association of State Boards of Education
- Links
to State Education Agencies
- Illinois State Board of
Education (ISBE)
Teacher Ed
Accreditation
- National Council for the Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE)
- NCATE Electronic Exhibit Rooms
- Eastern Illinois
University: NCATE 2000 Electronic Exhibit Room
- Illinois
State University: NCATE Electronic Exhibit Room
- University of Illinois at Springfield: Preparing for
Accreditation
- Teacher Education Accreditation
Council (TEAC)
Certification and
Standards
- National Association of
State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC)
- National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards (NBPTS)
- Interstate New
Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
- National
Association for Alternative Certification
- Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE): Professional
Preparation, Certification and Certificate Renewal
- ISBE:
State Teacher Certification Board
Teacher
Education and Liberal Arts
- American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education
- Association
of Teacher Educators
- National Association of Early
Childhood Teacher Educators
- American Associate Degree
Early Childhood Educators
- Council for Exceptional
Children (CEC): Teacher Education Division
- CEC Illinois Teacher
Education Division
- Association for Teacher
Education in Europe
- Association of Independent
Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education
- Council of Colleges of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
- National Center for
Research on Teacher Learning
- Association of Math
Teacher Educators
International
Organizations
- International Bureau of
Education
- International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching
Education, Teaching, and Learning
- National Center for Education
Information
- National Commission on
Teaching and America's Future
- ETS: Teaching
and Learning Division
Educational
Policy
- Center for the
Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP)
- Education Policy
Institute
Restructuring and
Reform
- National Center
for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching
- Center
for Educational Renewal
- The Center for
Education Reform
- National
Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform
- The Education Trust
- Association for
Educational Development
Excellence and
Accountability
- National
Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching
- National Council on Teacher
Quality
- Council
of Learned Societies in Education
Psychology in Education
- National Institute on the
Teaching of Psychology
- Association for the Teaching of Psychology
- APA Division 2:
Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- APA
Division 15: Educational Psychology
- APA
Division 16: School Psychology
- Teaching
Educational Psychology Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Midwest Association of
Teachers of Educational Psychology (MATEP)
LAWS, REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, and ETHICS
Resources for Compliance with Mandates and Standards Set by Governmental
Regulatory Agencies and Professional Boards
Teacher Certification
CERTIFICATION NATIONALLY
- 50 States' Teacher
Certification Requirements
- NASDTEC
Interstate Agreements --States with Reciprocity Agreements
- NASDTEC Interstate Agreement: Illinois Certification --IL
Reciprocity
- NASDTEC Manual on the
Preparation and Certification of Educational Personnel
CERTIFICATION IN ILLINOIS
- Illinois State
Board of Education (ISBE): Professional Certification
- Illinois Education Statutes
- Illinois School Code
- Illinois State Board of Education Rules
- ISBE: Status of Special Education Teacher Certification Under
Corey H. --Update
- ISBE Qualifications for Teacher Aides
- ISBE Recertification
- Illinois Certification Testing System
Illinois
Alternative Certification
- Illinois Alternative Certification Fact Sheet

- ISBE: Alternative Certification Programs
- Alternative Teacher Certification

- Alternative Route to Teacher Certification

- Alternative Route to Administrative Certification

- Resident Teacher Certification Programs

Illinois Articulation
- Illinois Rule Section 25.415: Credit in Junior College
- I Transfer: Illinois
Articulation Initiative
- I Transfer: ECE Matrix of Transfer Courses from College to
College
- I Transfer: Professional ECE Core Courses
- I Transfer: ECE Course Descriptions
Standards for Teacher
Education, Teachers, and Students
NATIONAL Standards
National
Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- NCATE
Standards
- NCATE Unit
Standards
- NCATE
Program Standards
- NCATE: Specialized Professional Association (SPA) Standards
- NCATE ECE Standards
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Standards Initial Early Childhood Teacher Preparation

- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Standards Advanced Early Childhood Teacher Preparation

- NAEYC
Matrix --MS Word .doc
Specialized
Professional Associations (SPAs)
- NAEYC
Guidelines for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs: Associate,
Baccalaureate, and Advanced Levels
- Personnel Standards for Early Education and Early Intervention:
Guidelines for Licensure in Early Childhood Special Education
--Recommendations of NAEYC, DEC, and ATE
- IRA Standards for Reading Professionals
- NCESS National Standards for Social Studies Teachers
- NCTM Principles
and Standards for School Mathematics
- NSES
Science Teaching Standards
Interstate New
Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
- INTASC Standards
- INTASC Preface, Preamble, and
Core Standards
- INTASC:
Model Standards for Licensing General and Special Education Teachers of
Students with Disabilities: A Resource for State Dialogue
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
(NBPTS)
- NBPTS: The Standards
Technology Standards for Teachers and
Administrators
- National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers
- Technology Standards for
School Administrators
Association of
Teacher Educators (ATE)
- ATE Position
Statement
- ATE Standards for Teacher Educators
- ATE Standards for Field Experience
Other Interested Groups
- Holmes
Partnership Goals
- The State of State Standards 2000
- Developing Educational Standards
ILLINOIS Teaching Standards
PROGRAMS
THAT PREPARE EDUCATORS
- Illinois JCAR: Administrative Code Part 25: Certificates and
Approving Programs That Prepare Professional Educators
- Part 26 of the Illinois School Code --Standards for Certification in Early Childhood and Elementary Education
STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS
- Standards, Rules, and Matrices for Illinois Certification in All
Educational Areas
- Standards for All Illinois Teachers
- Illinois Professional Teaching Standards (IPTS)
- ISBE Content Area Standards for Educators
--ECE
p.18
- ISBE Core Technology Standards for All Teachers
- ISBE Core Language Arts Standards for All Teachers
STANDARDS FOR STUDENTS
NATIONAL Standards
Technology Standards for Students
- National Educational
Technology Standards for Students
ILLINOIS Learning Standards
Illinois Standards for
Students
- Illinois Learning
Standards --K through 12
- Illinois Early Learning Standards --Ages 3 - 5
- Illinois Birth to Three Program Standards, Quality Indicators, and
Resource Guide (Draft) --Ages 0 - 3
CHICAGO
Standards
Chicago Standards for
Students
- Chicago Academic Standards --K through 12
THEORY-RESEARCH-PRACTICE
Full-Text &
Scholarly Articles, Academic Treatises, Professional Commentaries, Graduate
Level Student Critiques, etc.
Research-Based Education
- Applying the Science of
Learning: Topical Papers
- What
Does it Mean to Be a Research-Based Profession?
- The Missing Foundation in Teacher Education
- The Research Base of
Effective Teacher Education
Psychology of Learning and Teaching
- Psychology of Learning --Power Point Presentations
- Learner-Centered Psychological Principles: Guidelines For The
Teaching Of Educational Psychology In Teacher Education Programs --See
also APA Learner-Center Psychological Principles: A Framework for
School Reform and Redesign
- Educational
Psychology as a Foundation in Teacher Education
- Toward a Re-Evaluation of the Role of Educational Epistemology in
the Professional Education of Teachers
- Reconceptualizing Educational Psychology: A Pragmatic Approach to
Developments in Cognitive Science
- Things I Wish I Knew about Teaching Psychology
- Reconceiving the Foundations of Education: An Ecological Model
- Telling the Stories of Educational Psychology --Berliner
- Educational Psychology Study: Making It Harder, Making It Better:
Improving Teaching and Learning
- A
Postmodern, Constructivist Pedagogy For Teaching Educational Psychology,
Assisted by Computer Mediated Communications
- The Teaching of Educational Psychology: A Research Agenda
- Variations in Excellence: Context Matters in Reforming Our Courses
and Rethinking Our Roles --by Rocklin
- Case Competition as a Catalyst to Restructure the Teaching and
Learning of Educational Psychology
- Personal Construct Psychology and Teacher Education: Reflective
"Thought Objects", Story and Metaphor
- Psychology May Be Key to Education --First Lady Laura Bush
Pleas for Research-Based Teacher Education (July 27, 2001)
Expert-Novice Teacher/Professional
Comparisons --See also From Novice to Expert Teacher
- In Search of the Expert Pedagogue --by David Berliner
- Expertise: The Wonder of Exemplary Performances --by Berliner
- Problem Presentation in Teaching: Inferences from Research of Expert and Novice Teachers
- Should Teachers Be Expert in the Subject Matter?
- An Examination of the Characteristics of Expert Teaching of Technology Tools
- Ongoing Research in Expertise
- Novice to Expert: How Do Professionals Learn?
Teaching, Learning to Teach, & Teacher Knowledge
- Teaching --by Brophy
- The Teaching Challenge
- The Current State of Teaching in America: Five Barriers to Increasing Student Achievement
- Preservice Teachers' Conceptions
- Transforming
Subjects: A Study of Teacher Education Practice for the Development of Pre-Service
Secondary Teachers' Subject Matter Knowledge
- Teaching and Learning to Teach
- Teachers on Teaching: Learning to Teach
- Theory Follows Practice in Learning to Teach and in Research on Teaching
- Teacher Knowledge and the Evaluation of Student Achievement
- Two Problems with Teacher Knowledge
- Teacher Knowledge, Cognitive Flexibility and Hypertext: Case-Based Learning and Teacher Education
- Teacher Knowledge and Behavior
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge Taxonomies
Professionalism
- Systemic Reform in the Professionalism of Educators
- Teacher Professionalism and Teacher Commitment: A Multilevel Analysis
- Teachers' Work and Theories of Professionalism: Conceptualizing a New Approach
Teacher Quality and
Gatekeeping --See also Out-of-Field
Teaching and Teacher
Certification and Under-certified Teachers
- Effective Teaching
- Quality Counts
2000: Who Should Teach?
- The Gatekeeping Challenge
- ETS
Report: Academic Quality of Prospective Teachers: The Impact of Admissions and
Licensure Testing
- Revisiting What States are Doing to Improve the Quality of Teaching:
An Update on Patterns and Trends: A Working Paper (2001)
- Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in
Improving Teacher Quality (2001)
- Teacher Quality and
Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence --by
Darling-Hammond
- Policy Brief: Relationship Between Teacher Quality and Student Achievement
- How
Teaching Matters: Bringing the Classroom Back Into Discussions of Teacher
Quality
- Teacher
Quality: A Report on the Preparation and Qualifications of Public School
Teachers
- National Conference on Teacher Quality: Best Practices --Many
Full-Text Papers
- Title II HEA
Teacher Quality Programs
- Initial Report from the Secretary of Education on the Quality of
Teacher Preparation
- Educating the
Emerging Majority: The Role of Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities in
Confronting America's Teacher Crisis: Report Prepared for the Alliance for
Equity in Higher Education
- Evaluating Teachers' Professional Practice
- What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future
- Some
Approaches to Raising the Quality of Teaching
- Laura Bush to Help Train Teachers --July 27, 2001
- National Council
on Teacher Quality: Illinois Reforms and Developments
Teacher Certification and
Under-certified Teachers --See also Teacher Quality and Gatekeeping
- Research and
Rhetoric on Teacher Certification: A Response to 'Teacher Certification
Reconsidered' --by Linda Darling-Hammond
- The Effectiveness
of Teach for America and Other Under-certified Teachers on Student Academic
Achievement: A Case of Harmful Public Policy --by Laczko-Kerr and Berliner
- Teach For America Study Reports Some Gain, but Obscures Failed Teaching Policies in Urban Schools (2004)
Teacher Preparation --See also Teacher Scholarships
- The Making
of a Teacher: A Report on Teacher Preparation in the US --by Feistritzer
- How Are
Other Countries Preparing Teachers?
- From
College to First-Year Teaching: How the United States Compares to Several
Other Countries
- Preservice Teacher Education
- Learning-to-Learn Skills for Lifelong Learning: Some Implications
for Curriculum Development and Teacher Education
- How Do Preservice Teachers Use Concept Mapping to Organize Their
Curriculum Content Knowledge
- Conjoining Product Technologies with Mutliple Intelligence Theory:
Rethinking Teacher Preparation
- World Education Report 2000
- Preparing New Teachers for the Challenges of Today's
Classrooms
- Building a Profession: Strengthening Teacher Preparation and
Induction
- Improving Teacher Preparation and Credentialing Consistent with
the National Science Education Standards
- Improving Teacher Preparation
- Blueprints Online: Teacher Education
Teacher Induction
- What to Look for in a Teacher Induction Program
- Beginning Teacher Induction: Collaboration for Success
- Mentoring the New Teacher --Syllabus
Teacher Supply and Demand
- Solving the Dilemmas of Teacher Supply, Demand, and Standard: How
We Can Ensure A Competent, Caring, and Qualified Teacher for Every Child
--by Darling-Hammond
- Teacher Supply
and Demand: Surprises from Primary Research
Teacher Education Reform
- The Problems of Reforming Teacher Education
- A Personal Response to Those Who Bash Teacher Education
--Berliner
- The Politics of Epistemology and the Self-Study of Teacher
Education Practices
- Turning
Schools of Education into Communities of Scholars Through the Use of
Technology: Reflections on a Presentation at CILT'99 by Lee Shulman
- Shulman Urges, "Emphasize Scholarship and Teaching"
- Institute
for Educational Leadership Monograph A Dialogue on Teacher Education
Reform
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities Policy
Statement: A Call for Teacher Education Reform
- Illinois Framework for Restructuring the Recruitment, Preparation,
Licensure and Continuing Professional Development of Teachers
International Comparisons and Models
- An International Comparison of Teacher Education
- Institutional Approaches to Teacher Education within Higher
Education in the Europe Region: Current Models and New Developments Planning
Meeting for National Case Studies
- Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA): The Changing
Social Base of Teacher Education
- ATEA:
The Changing Political Economy of Teacher Education
- ATEA:
The Changing Knowledge Base of Teacher Education
- Teacher Preparation
and Professional Development in Asian-Pacific-Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Members: A Comparative Study --by Darling-Hammond
New Directions
- Harvard University to Ground Teacher Education in Urban
Experience
- Northern Michigan University School of Education: Conceptual
Frameworks for Teacher Education, Educational Administration and Instructional
Leadership, and School Guidance Counseling Programs
- Models of Teacher
Education --Power Point Presentation
- Models
of Teacher Education: Where Reading Recovery Teacher Training Fits
Public Policy
Debates
- No Child Left Behind Government Web Site
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, H.R. 1
- No Child Left Behind? Faculty Response to Bush's Education
Bill --Includes Links to Responses by Several Faculty Members of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Testing Our Schools: Bush Promises to Leave No Child Behind But Where Will His Faith in Tests Leave Education?
- No Child Left Behind Legislation Is Bad Law
- FairTest.org: Why No Child Left Behind Will Fail Our Children
- No Child Left Behind After Two Years: A Track Record of Failure
- No Child Left Behind
- No Bad Idea Left Behind
- No Child Left Behind: Great Name / Bad Consequences --National Education Association
- ACLU
Opposition to School Vouchers (aka "Scholarships")
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State: School Vouchers
Pedagogy
- NAS Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy
- Pedagogy for the 21st Century
- Active
Learning Teaching Strategies: Models of Teaching --A Reflection on the
work of Bruce Joyce, Bev Showers, Marsha Weil and Others
- Components & Dimension of Instructional Models
- Preparing Teachers for Differentiated Instruction
- What Teacher
Educators Need to Know about Inquiry-Based Instruction
- The Case
Method in Teacher Education: Alaskan Models
- UNESCO: Examples of General Secondary Education Curricula and
Teacher Training Materials
Assessment and Outcomes
- Value-Added
Assessment
- Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System
- Sanders
101
- Analyst Rocks Education Boat with Theory that Teacher, Not
Economic Status, is More Important
- Value-Added Assessment: An Accountability Revolution
- The Value-Added Achievement Gains of NBPTS-Certified Teachers in
Tennessee: A Brief Report
- Reforming Teacher Education and Training: Designing and
Implementing An Effective Pre-Service Teacher Performance-Based Program with
Portfolio Assessment
- The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture
- The
Outcomes Question in Teacher Education
RESOURCES
Topic-Specific Resources and Additional WWW Links
Teacher Quality
- US Dept.
of Ed (USDE): Teacher Quality
- Renaissance Partnership for
Improving Teacher Quality
- Promising
Practices: New Ways to Improve Teacher Quality
Education Today and Tomorrow
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): The Condition of
Education, 2001
- Recreating Colleges of Teacher Education
- Reforming Teacher Education: What Are Others Doing?
- Thematic Network on
Teacher Education in Europe
- Project 30: Teacher
Education Reform Initiative Focusing on Liberal Arts and Sciences and
Education
- Education Reform Sites
Education Policy
- AACTE Education Policy
Clearinghouse
Teacher
Preparation
- Teacher Education in Illinois
- SUNY Book Series: Teacher Preparation and Development
- Teacher
Education Resources
- Task Force on Teacher Education and Professional Development
- Directory of NSF Collabortives for Excellence in Teacher
Preparation
Pedagogy Resources
- List of
Pedagogy Related Sites
- Millenium
Project Library: Pedagogy
Culturally
Responsive Education
- Center
for Multilingual/Multicultural Research: Teacher Education and Professional
Development
- Culturally Responsive Practice
Resources and Materials for Teaching in Higher Ed
- Philosophy of Education Syllabi
- History of American Education Syllabi
- History of
Childhood, Youth, and Family Syllabi
- Class Resources and Syllabi for Teaching Educational
Psychology
- Teaching Educational Psychology
- Educational, School, and Teaching Psychology
- Teaching
Clinical Psychology
- UK Learning and
Teaching Support Network: Teaching Psychology in Higher Ed
- Teaching
Psychology Handbook
- Approaches to Teaching and Learning Psychology
- Office of
Teaching Resources in Psychology
- Teaching Psychology
- Psychology Teaching and Research Resources
- History
and Teaching of Psychology
- Critical Psychology Teaching Materials
- Teaching
Psychology Resources
- Psychology: Teaching Resources
- Teaching Resources for Psychology
- Teaching
Resources for Psychologists
- Psychology Teaching Materials
- Professor's Palimpsest: Support Materials for Teaching
Psychology
- Teaching Psychology: Effective Power Point Presentations
- Psychology Teaching Resources: Overhead Projector Images
- Overhead Slides for Early Childhood Education --Power Point
Presentations
- Survey of Exceptionalities --Slides and Power Point
Presentations
- Psychological Science on the Net: Teaching Psychology --Online
Courses Plus Syllabi
SEARCH ENGINES
Topic-Related Engines for Searching the Internet
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and
Teacher Education
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Information
and Technology
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS/ONLINE
MEDIA
Full-Text & Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Journals
- AERA Division K:
Teaching and Teacher Education Newsletter and Archives
- National
FORUM of Teacher Education Journal
- Teachers College Record
(TCR): The Voice of Scholarship in Education
- Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy: Publications
- Rethinking
Schools: An Urban Educational Journal
- Basic
Education Archive
- Policy
Perspectives: Examining Public Policy Issues in Teacher Education
- Education Week on the Web
- Harvard Education Letter: Research
Online
- Thinkers on Education
- Educational Innovation and Information
- Strategies for Teaching Educational Psychology: Selected
Articles
- Education Journals and
Newsletters Available on the Internet
- Journals Available Electronically
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Instructional and Assistive Technologies for Teaching and Learning across
Contexts, Ages, and Abilities
- Technology in Preservice Teacher Education
- Society
for Information Technology and Teacher Education
- International Society for
Technology in Education
- National
Educational Technology Standards for Teachers Project: Preparing Tomorrow's
Teachers
- Web Tutor for Educational Psychology: A Practitioner-Researcher
Model of Teaching
- Teaching with Electronic Technology
- Using
the Internet in the Classroom
- Integrating On-Line Learning: A First Attempt to Integrate the
Internet into a Teacher Education Core Curriculum Subject
- NetTech: Educational
Technology for Education Leadership
- Northwest Educational
Technology Consortium
- Teachers College
Institute for Learning Technologies
- EdTech Web Ring
- Evaluating Web Pages
- ERIC
Educational Technology Web Site
- Cyberculture
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