"Teacher competence" means that a teacher has the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively teach and support students in their learning. It refers to their expertise and capability in delivering educational content and managing a classroom.
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Authors engaged in this work have highlighted various features of attention to student thinking that reflect important aspects
of teacher competence.
School leaders must make sure classroom teachers are using instructional strategies in a way that reaches all students and are taking appropriate steps to
improve teacher competence when this goal is not being met.
Induction programs that are specifically designed to train new teachers help
increase teacher competence, which, in turn, directly impacts student achievement.
It also needs to be said that curriculum is notably hard for researchers to get hold of — partly because it's so variable, so subjective, so entangled
with teacher competence and pedagogical method and therefore hard to isolate, and partly because it's just so nebulous, even secretive.
-- an end to the «last hired, first fired» practice that looks solely at teacher seniority and not at teacher competence
More recently, under President Obama, the issue has been
teacher competence more than quality: Are teachers getting the job done?
Of main interest are his 14 reasons, «big and small» for [his] judgment that
assessing teacher competence using standardized achievement tests is nearly worthless.»
Changes in depressive symptoms, rumination, cognitive reactivity, mindfulness skills, and self - compassion from pre to post treatment, grouped by the
mean teacher competence score from lowest to highest.
Teaching to Lead (T2L), a research - based preparation program for new and early career CTE teachers,
improves teacher competence and self - efficacy and has been shown to increase teacher retention.
Linda Darling - Hammond states that the best predictor of academic success is
teacher competence.
The TNA also explores the link between student learning levels and
teacher competence and identifies areas that teachers perceive as their needs.
As students return to school, the national dialogue on controversies surrounding teacher tenure, salaries, the core curriculum, testing and
teacher competence will get more fervent.
But establishing valid indicators of
teacher competence has proven to be controversial.
On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring
teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»
For them, teachers are nothing more than interchangeable, dues - paying widgets and
teacher competence and effectiveness are of no discernible consideration.
And of all the factors contributing to these results, research shows that class size, ethnicity, location, and poverty levels all pale to triviality compared to
teacher competence.