Sentences with phrase «teacher licensure exams do»

The training programs also dedicate less course time to training teachers in the content they will teach (in part because curriculum can vary significantly from state to state) and teacher licensure exams do not include as difficult questions on content pedagogy as those in top - performing countries.

Not exact matches

In other words, some people who do well on a content exam are terrible teachers; while some who do poorly on a licensure exam are great teachers.

Often, these tests do not examine a teacher candidate's ability to teach this content.2 Until recently, teacher licensure exams were mostly comprised of multiple - choice and a few short answer questions.

Making adjustments to state teacher licensure requirements to allow teaching candidates to demonstrate their competency through rigorous but more authentic performance assessments, such as the edTPA, that do not have the degree of racial disparity in pass rates that traditional exams have had.