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Addressing Shortages of Educators in an Uncertain COVID-19 Landscape: Viewing Teacher Candidates as Assets

This brief offers examples of ways that teacher candidates can serve as assets in their field placements, both in person and virtually, helping to alleviate potential and ongoing teacher shortages in many content areas.

Policy Snapshot: General Education Teacher Preparation: Field Experience Requirements with Students With Disabilities

This policy synopsis summarizes states’ field experience policies for general education candidates and the extent to which they require experience with students with disabilities.

Learning to Teach: Practice-Based Preparation in Teacher Education

This special issues brief from the CEEDAR Center and GTL Center outlines essential features for providing candidates with high-quality, structured, and sequenced opportunities to practice within teacher preparation programs. The brief also showcases several teacher preparation programs wherein faculty have enacted innovative strategies to embed practice-based opportunities into existing coursework and field experiences.

Learning to Teach: Practical Examples

This series of briefs highlights innovative examples of teacher education programs that are providing their candidates with practice-based opportunities within coursework and fieldwork. Topics include structured tutoring; virtual simulation; lesson study; laboratory experiences; bug-in-ear coaching; video analysis; and coursework-aligned, field-based practice opportunities.