Urban Teacher Education part of the Education Reform Network

Diversifying the pool

• Alternative Certification Program
  The program is a collaborative effort between the Hamilton County Schools and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga specifically designed to meet areas of critical teaching shortage in the Hamilton County Schools. Individuals who have earned a bachelor's degree in math, science, foreign language, or have content courses applicable for special education may become licensed to teach in an accelerated and supported cohort program.
• Bringing Diverse Populations into the Teacher Certification Process
  The College of Education at Wayne State University focuses on the preparation of professional educators for urban settings. In 1997 the College won the AACTE award for best practice in the area of supporting diversity in the teaching profession.
• Glimpses of innovation: Efforts to increase Chicano/Latino teachers in the southwest.
  This volume presents the results of an effort at the Tomas Rivera Center in Claremont (California) to determine what is being done in the southwestern United States to produce more Latino and other minority teachers, including descriptions of 31 programs currently implemented at colleges and universities. (ERIC Abstract).
• Great City Teacher Project (GCT)
  The Great City Teacher (GCT) project focuses on the critical and long-standing need for elementary school teachers of learning disabled students. Under the auspices of the Council of the Great City Schools, the project is being implemented in five urban school districts working in partnership with five urban universities.
• PEF and Osborne Foundation Implement Urban Masters Program
  The Osborne Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to the Public Education Foundation (PEF) to implement a master's degree program for urban educators. The PEF, who will raise an additional $500,000 for the project, will coordinate the Osborne Fellows Project.
• Program Finds New Teachers In Unexpected Places: Schools
  Recruiting highly qualified teachers to work in needy school districts isn't difficult if administrators know where to look for candidates.
• The Future Teacher Institute. Promising Practices, The Nation's Voice for Urban Education, Council of Great City School.
  The Future Teacher Institute (FTI) is a minority teacher recruitment model which was initiated and field-tested at the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) over a five-year period. The major goal of the FTI is to involve promising minority high school students in a direct teaching/learning experience in order to increase the likelihood that they will eventually choose a career in education.