Not exact matches
If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving
teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality
applicants to the teaching profession, improve our
teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those
teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate
teacher development programs for
less effective
teachers.
«Once teaching became a high - status profession, more talented people became
teachers, lifting the status of the profession even higher... Where the profession has a low status, it attracts
less talented
applicants, pushing the status of the profession down further and, with it, the calibre of people it is able to attract.»
Reforms to qualified
teacher status (QTS) risk putting
applicants off and making the benchmark seem
less legitimate, according to
teacher training providers and unions.
Though it approves 80 % of
applicants, making it
less selective than the other universities on this list, Grand Valley State University still provides high quality
teacher education programs.
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.