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- Title: From the Tightrope: Designing, Developing, And Delivering an Alternative Teacher Education Model (Innovative Practices)
- Author : Multicultural Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
Description
In the fall of 2003 a number of factors came together to create a fertile environment for developing an alternative, pre-service teacher education model. The overarching goal of the model is to diversify a rural university's credential program(s) by developing and offering alternative paths toward teacher certification within the constraints of a traditional, fifth-year program. The vision of the model was a collaborative effort conceived by two institutions: Humboldt State University's (HSU) School of Education and the East Bay Conservation Corps (EBCC) Elementary Charter School. The partner institutions are located 275 miles away from each other on the northern California coast. HSU, founded in 1914 as a normal school, serves a vast, rural area and enrolls approximately 7,500 students in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Although HSU serves a geographically-diverse region that includes a high concentration of indigenous American Indian tribal communities, the HSU student population is primarily White. In contrast, the EBCC Charter School opened its doors in 2000 in metropolitan Oakland and serves an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse, urban K-5 population of 190 students.