In
order to help ensure that every classroom in the nation has an
effective teacher, a national Commission on Standards and Performance
Reporting will develop rigorous accreditation
standards for educator preparation that will raise the bar for
preparation providers, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator
Preparation (CAEP)
announced today. CAEP is the new accrediting body being formed through
the unification of two organizations charged with assuring quality in
educator preparation — the National Council for the Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC).
The
commission will ensure increased accountability through a focus on
outcome data and key program characteristic
data. CAEP has pledged to use multiple measures in its evaluation
system, including new sources of data from state longitudinal databases.
CAEP standards will also give increased attention to recruiting and
admissions to help ensure a supply of candidates
who are motivated to enter the teaching workforce and have
characteristics associated with teaching success and who are prepared in
areas in which they are needed.
“The work of this commission complements Kentucky’s proposed
Professional Growth and Effectiveness System for teachers and
administrators, which also looks at multiple measures of effectiveness,”
said Holliday. “It is crucial that the teacher preparation programs in
our state’s higher education institutions provide
teacher candidates with the means to be successful, and this commission
will ensure the quality of those programs.”
CAEP will expect accredited preparation providers to take bold steps to recruit, prepare and help develop effective
teachers who can contribute their expertise to improving student performance in all schools.
Through
the development of the new standards and accompanying processes, CAEP’s
quality assurance system will be
characterized by the accreditor’s dual mission of accountability and
improvement. CAEP’s decision-making will be transparent and will clearly
recognize the qualities that matter in programs.
CAEP believes that all educator preparation providers should be subject
to the same high standards of quality. To make
this possible, one of the tasks of the commission is to ensure
accreditation standards are appropriate for all preparation providers.
In the past, accreditation standards have been geared specifically to
higher education institutions.
The
Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, to become
operational in 2013, will accredit over 900
teacher education institutions across the nation, producing
approximately 175,000 graduates annually. For more information, see CAEP
Updates at
www.ncate.org or
http://www.ncate.org/Public/SOURCE: KDE Press release
2 comments:
It amazes me how global economic and academic comparisons have served as a catalyst of comparison between the U.S. and these other contries were are so fearful of falling behind. We use these places as our justification for "reform" actions but I am at a lose to identify any of them as obsessed with similar changes in their systems. To the contrary, many of their approaches are relatively traditional in practice. No one seems to be willing to recognize that our culture is based upon individuality and personal freedom and with that comes the possibility of failure. Expectations of standardized behavior and performance run counter to the ideals and behaviors of our citizens.
I am sorry, but how many years did he serve preparing pre-service teachers for classrooms?
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