Search results for: National standards

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Virtual Voices: Online Teachers' Perceptions of Online Teaching Standards
Authors: Davidson Smith Robin
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the National Education Association (NEA) published in 2006 the “Online teachers’ perceptions of online teaching standards”. Interviews with two teachers from each of the four online schools were studied following an online survey of 49 online teachers from these schools. Overall, participants reported that both sets of standards as being important but found the NEA standards to be slightly more relevant to their practice. The article concludes with recommendations for policy and research.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 12, 2010
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Defining and Comparing Generic Competences in Higher Education
Authors: Kallioinen Outi
In this paper, the author discusses the importance of defining generic competences in alignment with the European definitions. As a case study the generic competences defined by Laurea University of Applied Sciences are compared with European definitions of generic competences. The comparative matrix of generic competences enhances the comparison of learning outcomes in higher education institutions, facilitates credit transfer and the acknowledgement of prior learning.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 29, 2010
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Using Performance-Based Assessments to Prepare Safe Science Teachers
Authors: Allan Elizabeth, Shane Joseph, Brownstein Erica M., Ezrailson Cathy, Hagevik Rita, Veal William
In this article, the authors describe the requirements of standard 9 of the National Science Teachers Association Standards for Science Teacher Preparation. This standard is designed to ensure that science teacher preparation programs provide preservice science teachers with the knowledge and skills to understand and successfully engage students in a safe and ethical manner.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 12, 2010
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Tailoring National Standards to Early Science Teacher Identities: Building on Personal Histories to Support Beginning Practice
Authors: Eick Charles J.
Individual recommendation plans (IRP) for student teaching practice were co-constructed with two methods students. The IRP was based on the select application of National Science Teachers Association’s National Standards for Science Teacher Preparation. The students completed a resume, an interview on pedagogical preferences, and a learning styles survey to determine the reform-based standards and pedagogical approaches that better fit their personal histories and identity formation as science teachers.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 15, 2009
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The National Board Certification Process as Professional Development: The Potential for Changed Literacy Practice
Authors: Coskie Tracy L., Place Nancy A.
This 2-year qualitative study centered on five elementary teachers the year following their participation in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification process.The study used a communities-of-practice framework and focused on teachers’ appropriation of the Board's standards and portfolio as conceptual tools related to literacy instruction.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jan. 28, 2009
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Towards a New Professionalism in School? A Comparative Study of Teacher Autonomy in Norway and Sweden
Authors: Helgoy Ingrid, Homme Anne
The authors argue that both individual teacher autonomy at the local workplace and autonomy at the national level embracing teachers as a collective group are important in analysing teachers’ professional autonomy. In comparing teachers’ professional autonomy they differentiate between processes of individualisation and collectivisation. Their analysis indicates, although intra-national differences, that the difference between Norwegian and Swedish teachers is striking.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 03, 2008