Professional Documents
Culture Documents
education
Professionalism and
quality assurance
My focus
How do we build professionalism in teaching?
How do we ensure quality in teaching and
teacher education?
The professionalization of teaching: at the
various sites where teachers learn to teach.
How can we make quality teaching and
student learning the heart or professionalism
and how can we develop and ensure this
professionalism over time?
student teaching
On the Job - The first years of teaching. the
school as employer
Quality assurance the structures that
ensure quality and professionalism
improve.
The norms of professional discourse such as
respecting evidence and other perspectives,
the vocabulary of teaching, and ways of
conversing about teaching.
Needed!
More collaboration and co-ordination among
Possible approaches
Different models for providing new teacher support.
E.g. mentoring
Well planned programmes of induction made a
difference to teaching quality and to teacher
retention.
The research. Teachers who experienced a good
induction programme with competent mentors, and
who understood their role were less likely to leave
teaching after 3 years and were more likely to
express satisfaction with teaching.
Maintaining quality
But to maintain professionalism and ensure
The result
If we achieve these basic conditions on which
Maintaining quality
This question has become more urgent as we
Teacher education
Accreditation, validation and quality
QA and programmes
The need for developmental support,
QA and Institutions
Need to examine and scrutinize institutional
What criteria?
There must be a consensus on the criteria for
society.
Professional preparation has to take into account (in
addition to others)
academic programmes,
Cannot be accredited by agencies that do
generic accreditation.
The special role of those who know, examine
and can develop those standards must be
acknowledged.
The special role of the profession of teachers
must also be acknowledged.
Models
The CNAA (Council for National Academic
Models (cont)
The TDA (Teacher Development Agency) in
Models (cont)
The Ontario College of Teachers is is
Special-ness of teaching
Teachers must recognize what is involved
Special-ness of teaching
We must have a vision of our profession.
We must recognize that generic accreditation
What is needed
Two sets of standards
One set that focuses on the teaching profession:
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