By John Mooney
Christie administration heeds calls for slower implementation of some of its proposed changes
Three months after they were first proposed, the Christie administration’s voluminous revisions to the state’s teacher preparation and certification requirements are still being fine-tuned, with the state stepping back from a couple of the more aggressive changes.
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“You can see that they really reflected on the various comments that were made by the stakeholder groups,” said Joelle Tutela, director of teacher education at Rutgers University-Newark and president of the New Jersey Association of College for Teacher Education.
“It really was the first time that we were seeing our voices being heard,” she said. “We are really grateful for that.”
Tutela said the extension of accreditation requirements to all programs was especially critical, as was delaying the student-teaching requirement.
“We’re all for more time in a clinical setting, but there are a lot of things that first need to be put in place,” she said.
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