The 74 Million – Matt Barnum
“Teachers who work in schools similar to where they student taught tend to be more effective, finds new research released by CALDER, a group affiliated with the American Institutes for Research. The study also showed that teachers who trained in schools with lower turnover were less likely to leave the profession themselves, and oddly those who were trained under a teacher with an advanced degree were less effective. The paper recommends that schools and universities try to place student teachers in schools demographically similar to where they want to work, and in schools with less teacher turnover. The research — conducted by Dan Goldhaber, John Krieg, and Roddy Theobald — comes as increased attention is being focused on improving schools of education, though it’s one of very few studies examining how the student teaching experience plays out later in classroom effectiveness An earlier study by the same authors found teachers’ first jobs tended to be in schools geographically close to where they student taught.”(more)