Designed for the Digital Age: Teacher Preparation at TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, several novel approaches to teacher preparation have emerged to challenge the dominance of university-based programs. Included in those approaches are two well-publicized, but little-researched phenomena: new graduate schools of education (nGSEs) and fully online teacher preparation. Drawing on data generated from a comprehensive qualitative case study of one institution, this article offers a theorized profile of teacher preparation at the intersection of these two phenomena. Based on a systematic analysis, it details the conceptualization and enactment of teacher preparation at TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education, a fully online nGSE.

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Notes

¹ On July 9, 2020, the Higher Education Licensing Commission of Washington, D.C. approved a name change for TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education – Moreland University; The TEACH-NOW Teacher Preparation Certificate Program will continue to exist under the Moreland University umbrella. Given its new status as a university, the institution no longer fits with our definition of nGSEs. However, all of the data about TEACH-NOW in this and other articles in this issue were obtained while it was an nGSE.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Spencer Foundation [5105021].