How did The University of Texas education faculty throw out all the old courses and bring in the new ones?
A. The starting point was to design degree plans that would allow students to complete university, major, and professional development requirements in 8 semesters. The State of Texas had established a cap in the number of course credits that could be required for certification. The State Board for Educator Certification had recently relaxed rigid requirements and challenged universities to come up with new ways to certify teachers—just so the graduates could demonstrate that they had achieved a reasonable list of competencies for new teachers. An “elephant in the living room” is the fact that in Texas, the majority of teaching certificates are granted through alternative programs that can be accomplished in a shorter time frame than traditional university teacher preparation programs. These outside pressures required a careful analysis of how the education courses could be streamlined and more efficiently presented, in such a way as to include the most essential elements of what previo
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