Making Teaching a Profession
| Autor: | Robert H. Koff |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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| Zdroj: | The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas. 61:297-299 |
| ISSN: | 1939-912X 0009-8655 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00098655.1988.10113954 |
| Popis: | State Efforts to Control Quality in Teacher Education Today more than 70 percent of the institutions of higher education in this country provide programs that lead to teacher certification. The institutions are large and small, secular and religious, graduate and undergraduate. About 41,000 persons teach teachers in nearly 1,300 institutions of higher education. Some institutions have education faculties that number more than 150, while others have only one, two, or three faculty members. About ninety institutions that prepare teachers are not even regionally accredited. Unlike the case in many other countries, the quality of initial preparation of teachers in the United States is not controlled by a national ministry of education. Instead, each state monitors entrance to the profession in a variety of ways-program approval and teacher certification being two of them. The former refers to the process whereby a state department of education approves the teacher preparation programs of a given college of education. Approval is usually given after a site visit and/or an independent evaluation. Thereafter the state automatically certifies all graduates of the approved program. One difficulty with program approval is that once programs have been approved, approval is almost never withdrawn, even though there is usually a nominal periodic review. To my knowledge, in the last twenty years fewer than a dozen institutions in all the fifty states combined have been told by chief state school officers that they could not continue to produce teachers. |
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