Major Forum: Examining Professional Practice: Evolving Notions of
Beginning Teacher Competencies Defining what teacher candidates should know and be able to do can be challenging, particularly given the continually evolving understanding of what teaching and learning should look like in the current education landscape.
Not exact matches
When a thoughtful project - based instructional program is established schoolwide, many other agreeable things happen:
Teachers from various disciplines discover they are working to develop the same competencies and habits of mind, and students begin hearing the same messages from all their t
Teachers from various disciplines discover they are working to develop the same
competencies and habits of mind, and students
begin hearing the same messages from all their
teachersteachers.
Mr. Harper has listed dropout prevention, reducing class sizes,
competency testing for
beginning teachers,...
The article
begins with a discussion of national reform movements that have influenced math instruction (i.e., National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics Standards, minimum
competency testing, graduation requirements, inclusion).
Building on the promise of the
competency - based movement and the urgent need to engage more aspiring
teachers earlier, the Educators Rising
Beginning to Teach microcredentials aim to become a key part of a systemic solution for improving how aspiring educators demonstrate their skills and knowledge on their road to becoming accomplished
teachers.
Through partnership with the Center for Collaborative Education, the
teachers were able to build their assessment literacy and
begin to create local
competency - based assessment systems.
Portfolio development has received some attention as a possible tool for
beginning teacher reflection during their induction programs (Perez, Swain, & Hartsough, 1997) and has been mentioned as way to ensure
competency in teaching (Reynolds, 1995).
California's
teacher induction programs can be a key tool is developing these
competencies and mindsets for
beginning teachers.
These new exams, such as edTPA, formerly the
Teacher Performance Assessment, and the Educational Testing Service's Praxis Performance Assessment for
Teachers focus on assessing
beginning teaching
competency.
That means that
teacher preparation must
begin to shift from a «time served» model to
competency - based one.
While mentoring overall addresses the instructional support resident educators need as they
begin their professional teaching careers, focused mentoring is specific and targeted to address
teacher competencies Ohio once measured in the Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA) in the years preceding 2017 - 2018.
Since it can be difficult for less experienced
teachers to stand out in large applicant pools, this resume
began by highlighting Core
Competencies that she has excelled in throughout their brief career.