IBHE Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) Project

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TQE Project at a Glance

 

The Illinois State TQE grant has the following objectives:

• Improving state licensure and certification requirements for middle-grade teachers;
• Redesigning teacher preparation curriculum for middle-grade teachers;
• Developing a seamless teacher preparation route between two- and four-year institutions;
• Creating web-accessible courses for delivery of teacher preparation courses;
• Developing innovative strategies to recruit highly competent middle-grade teachers for high poverty urban and rural areas; and
• Creating clinical experiences at middle-grade schools for higher education Arts and Science and Education faculty.

This co-creation of teacher preparation curriculum and web-accessible courses by two and four-year faculty increases the role that community colleges have in the preparation of high quality teachers and, thereby, increases recruitment and production of teachers

 

IBHE agenda February 2001 (PDF format)