NCATE Unveils a Plan for Aspiring Elementary Teachers
Washington
Programs that prepare elementary school teachers would shift their focus to monitoring candidates' performance, under a proposed blueprint released last week by the national organization that accredits teacher education.
Instead of looking at what classes and experiences are offered to candidates, the draft standards ask institutions of higher education to provide evidence of what their teacher-candidates know and can do.
Such an orientation meshes with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education's plans to create a performance-based system of accreditation. That system, known as NCATE 2000,...
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