Urban Teacher Education part of the Education Reform Network

Models

• New Urban Teacher Collaborative
  Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI is working in conjunction with the Office of Professional Development of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in an initiative known as the New Urban Teacher Collaborative (NUT-C). A Virtual Community Forum with sections for General Questions, Celebrations, Classroom Management/Behavior, Professional Readings, Elementary Curriculum, Middle and High School Curriculum and Technology supports beginning teachers during their first year in the schools.
• Supporting Beginning Teachers
  Twenty to 30 percent of new teachers leave the field within 3 years, 9.3 percent do not even make it through their first year, and after 5 years 50 percent have left teaching. Unlike most other fields, in which new hires spend years training and building up to more challenging assignments, first-year teachers are generally expected to take on the same duties and responsibilities as people who have been teaching 20 years.
• The Power of Preparation
  In an inner-city San Francisco elementary school, San Francisco State University graduate students practice-teach at the same place they take their education courses -- a professional development school that is run jointly by university teacher-educators and the school district.