Teachers for a New Era (TNE)
This multi-million dollar initiative, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York‚ is designed to strengthen K-12 teaching by developing state-of-the-art teacher education programs in accordance with three design principles:
- decisions driven by evidence
- engagement of arts and science faculty
- teaching as an academically taught clinical practice profession.
NIWL has provided technical support and capacity-building services to the 11 competitively selected colleges and universities since 2002. These services have ranged from regular visits by a liaison assigned to work with each participating institution to consultant referrals‚ institutes and workshops‚ a web site that includes a virtual library‚ an electronic newsletter‚ and periodic compilations of the latest research on teacher education reforms and related topics.
The eleven institutions selected to participate in Teachers for a New Era are:
- Bank Street College of Education
- Boston College
- California State University at Northridge
- Florida A&M University
- Michigan State University
- Stanford University
- University of Connecticut
- University of Texas El Paso
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin‚ Milwaukee
For more information‚ visit http://www.teachersforanewera.org/