GOAL: To reformulate teacher education programs in New Jersey's higher education institutions to improve their quality and assure accountability for results. This goal will require that New Jersey's institutions of higher education align their programs with teaching standards and P-12 student standards, as well as new program approval standards. These efforts will ensure that teachers are ready to teach the more rigorous content students are expected to learn.
        Objective 1: Complete a major, standards-based reform of the state system regulating teacher preparation in institutions of higher education.
        Objective 2: Redesign the comprehensive review system for program approval that incorporates standards and options for national accreditation.
        Objective 3: Promote research- and standards-based innovation leading to greater teacher quality and strengthened linkages between IHEs and the P-12 community through a competitive innovation grant process.
        Objective 4: Promote and institutionalize structured opportunities for dialogue among stakeholders focused on progress about reform issues related to quality in teacher preparation.

NJDOE's Bureau of Higher Education Quality Initiatives