Education Pipeline

Teacher Education

An important part of higher education's mission is to prepare the teachers who teach it's future students. SUNY prepares 5,000 new teachers every year and aims to provide school districts with teachers of the highest quality.

A National Strategy

In January 2010, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) formed an expert panel on clinical preparation and partnerships, signaling the beginning of a sea change in the preparation of our nation’s teachers. The work of the panel - called the NCATE Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation, Partnerships and Improved Student Learning - culminated in recommendations for restructuring the preparation of teachers to reflect clinical psychology in Nov. 2010. This was an historic coming together of major stakeholders to make excellent programs the norm in teacher education. Read more about it here.

The redesign of teacher preparation to be more clinically-based and partnership-oriented is framed by the concept that teaching is a practice-based profession akin to medicine, nursing, or clinical psychology. Immediately following the panel’s findings, eight states, including New York, began implementing its recommendations. The states are New York, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee.

SUNY Urban Rural Teacher Corp

A SUNY Urban Rural Teacher Corp is under development to train teachers to meet the unique learning needs of students in urban and rural schools through rich academic and clinical experiences.