Curry School to implement study ideas, track grads
By Mary Pumphrey | September 20, 2002A new study by the Carnegie Corporation of New York suggests that schools should regard teaching as a clinical profession -- and encourage their education students to pursue post-graduate "residencies." The report encourages colleges to create long term relationships with the new teachers they graduate by tracking their effectiveness. This can be accomplished by compiling information about the achievement of their students, and by creating two-year post-graduate residencies similar to those that new doctors complete, according to the report. Susan King, vice president of public affairs for the Carnegie Corporation, said the post-graduate experience of new teachers is analogous to the experience of medical students. "It is one thing to study the body and another to find someone's liver," King said.
