IMPLICATIONS & FURTHER RESEARCH
The release of the TETCs has initiated conversations among teacher educators. We encourage those involved in teacher preparation to think critically about the implications, and to consider developing research agendas that will help our field move forward.
PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS
PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
The release of the TETCs has initiated conversations among teacher educators. We encourage those involved in teacher preparation to think critically about the implications, and to consider developing research agendas that will help our field move forward.
PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS
- How could these help you develop?
- How could they help your College of Teacher education change?
- How could they help your teacher candidates be better prepared?
- What is next? PD? Research? Evaluation?
- What resources are needed?
PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
- What are competencies?
- What are the best methods for creating competencies?
- Should we adopt teacher educator technology competencies?
- What would these competencies look like in practice?
- How would these competencies translate to specific domains (i.e. content specialties) and existing competencies or standards those agencies and organizations might already recommend?
- Who will be responsible for monitoring the competencies?
- What research backs or refutes proposed competencies?
- What will be the process for reviewing and revising these competencies?
- How can we ensure such competencies will lead to change and/or high-quality instruction?
- Use TETCs to transform teacher educators’ course goals as well as course design, and note the adoption of the TETCs could guide effective, transformational pedagogical practices.
- Use the TETCs to develop a self-assessment tool for teacher educators in colleges and schools of education.
- Use the TETCs to incentivize and integrate into yearly performance evaluations (standards of academe) and promotion and tenure guidelines.
- Use the TETCs with professional development and modeling which could involve one-on-one, reciprocal mentoring as well as group workshops.
- Use the TETCs to make change in accreditation. Align standards with the TETCs.
- Other?
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Page last updated March 21, 2018.
