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Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High Quality Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers for Urban Schools: The Cal Teach Experimental Program

Summary

Recruiting, preparing, and retaining high quality secondary mathematics and science teachers are three of the most critical problems in our nation’s urban schools that serve a vast majority of children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds (Council on Science and Technology and the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2007; EdSource, 2008; Rumberger, 1985). Although the factors contributing to these problems are complex, one area that has caught the attention of leaders of the teacher education community centers are the alternative pathways (or routes) through which teachers are trained and allowed into the profession (Hanushek, Kain, O’Brien, & Rivkin, 2005). This article describes the distinctive design of Cal Teach compared to the traditional pathway through which teachers are prepared. The design of Cal Teach provides a basis for our subsequent discussions. We discuss challenging issues in recruiting strong candidates (i.e., STEM majors) into teaching and how they are addressed. We then focus on the preparation of candidates, highlighting what we perceive are some of the problematic aspects of traditional teaching education programs and describing how Cal Teach is modeled and designed to overcome these problems. Following this, we describe mechanisms through which Cal Teach attempts to help retain graduates in the teaching force.

Authors

Xiaoxia A. Newton, Heeju Jang, Nicci Nunes, Elisa Stone

Organization/Affiliation

University of Massachusetts Lowell, College of San Mateo, Benicia Unified School District, University of California Berkeley

Year

2010

Discipline

Mathematics

Resource Type

Article - Peer-reviewed Journal

URL

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ887293

Citation

Newton, X.A., Jang, H., Nunes, N, & Stone, E. (2010). Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High Quality Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers for Urban Schools: The Cal Teach Experimental Program. Issues in Teacher Education 19(1), 21-40.

Content Focus

Clinical Preparation and Partnerships, Culture competency of teachers, including culturally relevant pedagogy, Pedagogy, Recruiting an effective and diverse teacher workforce, Recruiting and Supporting Candidates, Retention and support of teacher candidates during in preparation, Retention, Support, and Tracking of Graduates, Supporting each and every student, Teacher candidate learning—pedagogy, Teacher candidate preparation to enter the field (induction and/or mentoring)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE- 2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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