Wednesday, April 24, 2013
UTRU is a data-driven organization and we routinely meet to discuss the latest research, news and reports on teacher preparation. This week, we’ve all been reading and digesting the latest important piece from TNTP, Leap Year: Assessing and Supporting Effective First-Year Teachers. The...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) final report on measuring teacher effectiveness last week. The MET project sought to answer three key questions: Can measures of effective teaching identify teachers who better help students learn? How much...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A recent Washington Post blog surfaces a question that has been troubling teacher preparation programs for years: can anyone be made into a teacher, or are certain dispositions or characteristics necessarily inherent? Robert Bligh, the blog’s author, past general counsel of the Nebraska...