The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality
Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels for all students. Gaps remain, however, between the nation's educational aspirations and student achievement. To address these gaps, policy makers have recently focused on the qualifications of teachers and the preparation of teacher candidates. This book examines the appropriateness and technical quality of teacher licensure tests currently in use, evaluates the merits of using licensure test results to hold states and institutions of higher education accountable for the quality of teacher preparation and licensure, and suggests alternatives for developing and assessing beginning teacher competence. Teaching is a complex activity. Definitions of quality teaching have changed and will continue to change over time as society's values change. This book provides policy makers, teacher testers, and teacher educators with advice on how to use current tests to assess teacher candidates and evaluate teacher preparation, ensuring that America's youth are being taught by the most qualified candidates.
cific standards so as to demonstrate content-specific teaching practices (Connecticut State Department of Education, 1999:4). Scorers are trained to evaluate the portfolios using criteria based on contentfocused professional teaching ...
These gatherings often motivate teachers to further their exploration of developments in education and study new topics ... To connect with colleagues , check the resource sheet " Professional Development Resources and Organizations .
The Decade Ahead National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards (U.S.). The program in many respects is a superior form of supervisory program . The curriculum planning council , which includes many teachers in its ...
A Hands-On Guide to Setting Up and Running a Terrific Classroom
Presents a practical guide for kindergarten through eight-grade teachers that provides helpful tips for organizing the classroom including behavior-management strategies, checklists, calendars, and charts, creating student portfolios, centers and workstations, Websites, and more.
Professional Records You ou should always maintain evidence of your personal professional growth records , trainings , and classes . These not only create a portfolio but also may serve as necessary documentation for credential renewal ...
These convictions about the purpose of secondary education determined a teacher's qualifications . ... By the turn of the century a campaign , sponsored mainly by professors of education , to include professional training as a necessary ...
( 2 ) Professional education . Professional education shall include a minimum of twenty - four semester hours of course work and clinical and field - based experiences designed for teaching vocational education subjects .
The book provides a valuable insight for teachers and teacher-educators to act on the demands of teaching in the 21st century and helps them develop their pedagogical practices accordingly. Teacher Education in the 21st Century presents a series of focused ideas and classroom plans along with real-life examples for enhancing the quality of teacher preparation efforts to develop young minds for the future. The editors and contributors have incorporated principles of constructive teaching, inclusive education and integration of technology throughout the book. The book explicitly contextualizes the teaching practices and pedagogies in the social, cultural and linguistic landscape of India. The learning pedagogies, resource ideas, case studies, flow charts and classroom activities in this book lay the essential groundwork for teachers and teacher-educators to apply in their daily teaching. The examples and case studies span across teaching contexts in primary, middle and high school grade levels. Key Features: • New and emerging interdisciplinary curricular areas. • Emphasis on ongoing professional development for teachers. • New-age pedagogical practices for teachers and students. • Highlights the importance of collaborative efforts between and among teachers, parents, school administrators, and ancillary school professionals.
The book provides a valuable insight for teachers and teacher-educators to act on the demands of teaching in the 21st century and helps them develop their pedagogical practices accordingly.
Innovations encompass all phases of teacher education, with emphases on induction activities for new teachers and inservice activities which create new roles for experienced ones; they involve collaborative, integrative, reflective, experiential, and inquiry-oriented practices; and they emphasize teachers as leaders in their own development and schools as learning places for all. Complex networking of institutional structures enriches school-based teacher development; other innovations aim to improve teacher education practices, and change working and learning conditions; some are guided by a vision of teachers as reformers. The report concentrates more on the state of innovative activity, with only general references to the prevalence and impact of these changes.
Innovations encompass all phases of teacher education, with emphases on induction activities for new teachers and inservice activities which create new roles for experienced ones; they involve collaborative, integrative, reflective, ...
