Practice Brief

Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Candidates Supporting Staffing Needs During COVID-19—Program Highlights

January 2022 | Prepared To Teach

This report from the Prepared to Teach Network provides an overview of how 14 different educator preparation programs across the country have supported staffing needs in k–12 schools. This document was created for the United States Department of Education and the White House and shows that preparation programs can promote and support their candidates working as substitute teachers,  paraprofessionals, teacher assistants, and tutors in classrooms as well as in other instructional capacities at school and district levels. The report asserts that with financial supports in place, candidates’ clinical practice can be designed in powerful ways that both meet the supplemental learning needs of children resulting from the pandemic and ensure the country’s future teachers are well prepared.