Tag: Student Teachers

Opinion

Has The TA Run Its Course?

Like most doctoral students, I served as a TA (teaching assistant) during my time in graduate school. The experience was important, not only for financial reasons, but it gave me the opportunity to apply five years of teaching experience and pedagogical strategy in a university setting and that was exciting for me.

May 27, 2019

African-American

It’s a Family Reunion: Thurgood Marshall College Fund Teacher Quality and Retention Program

This summer, I attended the best family reunion ever. But here’s the catch; none of us who attended the reunion were actually blood-related. In fact, most of us had never seen each other in our lives. However, the kinship was there from the start and we were definitely a family.

October 16, 2018

News Roundup

Report: Alabama Colleges are Successfully Preparing Future Teachers

The Alabama State Department of Education distributed report cards for the state’s colleges and universities that train future teachers and officials are impressed with how well-prepared public school teachers are. These are the first report cards issued by the state since 2009. Colleges and universities didn’t receive letter grades on the report cards, but received […]

September 14, 2018