COVID-19 profoundly affected teacher preparation during the 2019-20 school year. Based on survey responses from nearly all Washington state teacher education programs (TEPs), Kathryn Choate, Dan Goldhaber, and Roddy Theobald find that the pandemic had predictable but concerning effects on teacher preparation. Most notably, student-teaching requirements were greatly reduced or waived completely for many candidates. Survey responses do not suggest that the pandemic has had an immediate impact on TEP applications or enrollment, but there is still considerable ambiguity about how TEPs will operate going forward and what long-term effects the pandemic will have on the front end of the teacher pipeline.

COVID-19在2019-20学年深刻影响了教师的准备工作。Kathryn Choate，Dan Goldhaber和Roddy Theobald根据几乎所有华盛顿州师范教育计划（TEP）的调查答复发现，这一大流行具有可预见性，但对教师准备产生了影响。最值得注意的是，许多候选人的学生教学要求大大降低或完全免除了。调查反馈并不表明该流行病已对TEP申请或入学产生直接影响，但对于TEP的未来运作方式以及该流行病对教师队伍前端的长期影响仍存在相当多的歧义。