Sentences with phrase «meaningful licensure exams»

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Once states have meaningful exams in place that are effective predictors of subsequent classroom performance, states should set high, meaningful passing scores for teacher licensure exams, as opposed to the standard practice of setting passing scores well below the median.

Four factors perpetuate this patchwork system: from state - to - state, licensure exams are rarely a meaningful measure of readiness to teach; the bar for passing is often set too low; little uniformity exists across state lines; and current processes limit the ability of teachers to easily transfer their licenses to other states.

States should ensure that licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach, requiring future teachers to demonstrate both pedagogical and content knowledge, and classroom skills.

Lastly, ensuring that teacher licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach, and creating a uniform system for licensure, can increase student achievement.

Ensuring that teacher licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach can also allow the teaching profession to accrue the same level of respect as other professions, such as medicine and law.

States that make teacher licensure exams a more meaningful measure of readiness to teach can ensure that teachers are better prepared before entering classrooms of their own.

While patterns and similarities across state licensure exams do exist, and though states need not achieve perfect uniformity between their licensure requirements, adopting similarly meaningful entry requirements into the profession would go a long way to changing this perception.

Four key results are likely to emerge from ensuring that teacher licensure systems are uniform and include exams that are meaningful measures of readiness to teach.

Instead, uniform teacher licensure systems and meaningful exams can be one part of ensuring that every teacher feels prepared to teach in any city or state, which will ultimately lead to an increase in student success across the country.