Action | Comprehensive Revision of the Regulations Governing the Review and Approval of Education Programs in |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 10/31/2015 |
Considering that college and univesrity teacher education programs provide the majority of high quality teachers for the Commonwealth of Virginia and are the most heavily regulated and scrutinized entities who prepare teachers, any regulation that serves to deny approval on the basis of a single test score of it's teaching candidates should be re-considered. The proposed regulations have added an additional category "Approved with stiuplations" which should help the teacher education programs maintain their endorsements and continue to provide high quality teachers for critical shortage areas. I affirm this addition:
In addition, the proposed regulations which remove the 18 hour and 24 hour cap on eduation courses that teacher education programs can require at the undergraduate level is helpful in that the professional education competencies have increased, and we will need to develop additional courses to fulfill those requirements.
Another item in the proposed regulations, requiring all programs to be nationallly accredited could create additional demands in terms of data collection and reporting on colleges and universities with teacher education programs. Requiring national accreditation must be tied to an agreement between the Commonwealth of Virgina and CAEP that seeks to minimize duplicate reporting of data and requiring data that teacher education programs have no authority or means to collect.