- How do you keep all public schools staffed with well-trained, effective teachers when population shifts create a crisis in staffing for many schools?
- Should teachers be prepared primarily to teach? Or should they be prepared with knowledge of their subject?
- Who should be in charge of educating the teacher? A university? Or the school in which the teacher is working? How can they collaborate?
- What should California teachers be able to know and do in order to ensure students know and can do things considered essential in each subject area at each grade level?
- Should school districts assume that once a teacher earns a degree the teacher is highly qualified to teach?
State Organizations Involved
There are 19 members of the CTC, 15 voting members and 4 ex-officio, non-voting Members. The Governor appoints 14 voting Commissioners serving 4 years as volunteers in unpaid positions:- six classroom teachers
- one school administrator
- one school board member
- one school counselor or services credential holder
- one higher education faculty member from an institution for teacher education
- four public members
- Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities
- Regents of the University of California
- the California State University
- California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office