With two of Matific's founders being professors, the company's background includes strong, high
quality pedagogical knowledge, something that both parents and teachers appreciate.
Not exact matches
One of the things that's interesting about this is that we tend to be focussing on teacher
quality a lot and thinking about their
knowledge of content and
pedagogical content
knowledge and that's important.
All of our CPD aims to do three broad things: improve subject and
pedagogical knowledge; improve the overall
quality of teaching; and support leadership development.
But Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher
Quality, says that the «certification process» has only a «crude capacity for ensuring» quality teachers, because pedagogical «knowledge can be acquired by means other than coursework.
Quality, says that the «certification process» has only a «crude capacity for ensuring»
quality teachers, because pedagogical «knowledge can be acquired by means other than coursework.
quality teachers, because
pedagogical «
knowledge can be acquired by means other than coursework.»
According to this point of view, certification is necessary to ensure teacher
quality, because teaching, like other professions (law, medicine, the sciences, and so forth), requires mastery of an esoteric body of substantive and
pedagogical knowledge that can not be obtained without undergoing a rigorous training program.
Another example: in Teacher
Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence (1999), Darling - Hammond reviews what the research says about the relationship between student achievement and many different teacher variables, including teacher's general academic ability, intelligence, subject - matter
knowledge,
pedagogical knowledge, experience, and certification status.
«States must ensure that alternative certification programs are of high -
quality and that teachers demonstrate sufficient
pedagogical and academic
knowledge before entering the classroom,» said U.S. Rep. Dale Kildee (D - Mich.)
ELA Content
Knowledge and
Pedagogical Content
Knowledge, including a deep understanding of College and Career Ready Standards, and high
quality curricular resources for Math (e.g. Eureka)
It details observable features of
quality science teaching within categories of lesson design and implementation, content
knowledge, and
pedagogical and
pedagogical content
knowledge.
Dispositions can be as important in teacher
quality as
pedagogical or content
knowledge (Singh & Stoloff, 2008).
Teacher preparation programs and undergraduate institutions should provide students with high -
quality, rigorous coursework aligned with the
pedagogical skills and content
knowledge proven to influence their students» future success.
I don't believe that parents have enough
pedagogical knowledge to be able to visit a school and determine if
quality instruction is taking place.