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TQE Partnership
Teacher Quality Enhancement
Background – Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) is a federally-funded grant program authorized under the Higher Education Act (HEA) aimed at developing strategies to effectively prepare high quality teachers. Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) and the Denver Public Schools (DPS) were awarded a Partnership grant in 2004 to prepare teachers for urban middle and high schools. The purpose of the five-year grant is to design, establish and pilot test a framework for a collaborative school-college partnership aimed at the effective preparation of teachers in four content areas (math, science, English and social studies) through clinical learning practices (courses and field experiences) in eight middle and high schools called Urban Apprentice Schools (UAS) across the district. Following the expiration of the grant, our expectation is to expand the model to include other DPS secondary schools as well as other urban school districts across the state. Strategic Design - “Theory of Change” – The TQE grant will be used to strengthen the quality of teacher preparation and retention for urban secondary schools through the development of a strategic and interrelated partnership within and across MSCD and DPS. Over the five-year term of the grant, TQE will “pilot” the development of the partnership through (a) the re-design and integration of curriculum within and across both systems; (b) the implementation of field experiences and delivery of secondary and postsecondary instruction to TQE future urban educators at eight designated Urban Apprentice Schools; and (c) the analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of the partnership’s support of a new “clinical” teaching and learning design. TQE Grant Office, Contact Information –
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