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Community Colleges & Teacher Preparation: Roles, Issues & Opportunities
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) recently released an issue paper by Tricia Coulter and Bruce Vandal that explores the expanding and evolving role community colleges are playing in teacher preparation to help meet the ongoing demand for quality teachers. The paper describes the forces shaping education policy and practice around teacher preparation, and offers suggestions on how community colleges can capitalize on their unique attributes to meet critical workforce demand in local and regional communities to positively affect the field of teacher education. Highlighted recommendations from the report include: (1) Teacher preparation should be viewed as a four-year process that includes content and pedagogical training throughout the four years; (2) Program and course development should be a collaborative process including representation from universities, community colleges and the K-12 sector; (3) Each state department of education should encourage ongoing collaboration and communication among legislators, community colleges, universities and the K-12 sector on how community college teacher preparation can be used to improve the quality of teacher preparation and ameliorate teacher shortages; and (4) Policymakers and institution leaders should consider providing resources to community colleges and K-12 school districts to support customized training for teachers through contracts and/or partnerships between community colleges and school districts.
Download at http://www.ecs.org/CCteacherprep
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