More Classroom Experience For Education Majors
Tennessee universities are overhauling the curriculum used to prepare teachers for the classroom by giving them more real experience in a classroom and engaging with students.
The Tennessee Board of Regents has launched a five-year effort to revamp its teaching curriculum in an initiative called “Ready2Teach.”
The Tennessean reports that future teachers will spend the bulk of their time in college learning the subjects they will be teaching, such as math, history or physics. Then their entire senior year will be working in a classroom or engaged in classroom problem-solving exercises.
The entire program won’t fully launch until 2013, but the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education has partnered with TBR to help implement the program.
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