AACTE Responds to New Report on Teacher Education Program Accountability

AACTE Senior Vice President Jane West participated in a panel July 29 responding to the new Center for American Progress report Measuring What Matters: A Stronger Accountability Model for Teacher Education. AACTE has released an official response statement and a list of resources related to the accountability topic. "We welcome and endorse the statement that 'no single measure – no matter how powerful the findings – is enough to gauge all the relevant compotents of teaching quality of program effectiveness,' " said AACTE President/CEO Sharon P. Robinson.

TITLE 515 ADVISORY BOARD OF THE DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

ARTICLE 1. TEACHER TRAINING AND LICENSING: BEGINNING RESIDENCY AND LICENSE RENEWAL
ARTICLE 2. ENDORSEMENT OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS AS INDEPENDENT PRACTICE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS
ARTICLE 3. PERFORMANCE-BASED PROCESS FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS
ARTICLE 4. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR LICENSE TEACHERS
ARTICLE 5. SUBSTITUTE TEACHER'S PERMIT
ARTICLE 8. INITIAL PRACTITIONER AND OTHER LICENSES
ARTICLE 9. ISSUANCE AND REVOCATION OF VARIOUS LICENSES AND PERMITS
ARTICLE 10. WORKPLACE SPECIALIST LICENSES REQUIREMENTS
ARTICLE 12. ACCOMPLISHED PRACTITIONER LICENSE

NOTE: The copy of this document has been edited. All the references to repealed language, history lines, the "authority" and "affected" citations have been removed. This is a "clean" version of the new REPA rule language.

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