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Lesson 8 Ensuring Teacher Quality Through Competency Framework Standards
Lesson 8 Ensuring Teacher Quality Through Competency Framework Standards
Standards
L.O
1. Distinguish between teacher quality and quality teachers
2. Relate competency framework for teachers in Southeast Asia (CFT SEA)
To teacher quality
3. Discuss the PPST career stage 1 -beginning teachers competencies & how it can
assure teacher quality in the Philippines
Are qualified teachers really quality teachers?
Teachers quality matters, most educator & policy makers that agree that one of
the most important school related factors influencing students achievement and
outcomes is teacers quality (Rice 2003).It has been found out to be the best
predictions of students outcomes.
One of the biggest challenges of ensuring teacher quality is the attractiveness
of teaching profession
The teahing profession is not attractive like the other professions that is why is
does not always get the best material.This is a cause of concern in many countries
around the world as exemplified in the global teachers status in 2013.
QUALITY teachers and teacher quality defined
Quality teachers are characterized by the different skills needed in the 21 st
century education.
1. Global awareness
2. Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy
3. Civic literay
4. Health literacy
Quality teachers are competent teachers. Teachers with global competence are able
to demonstrate knowledge , skills, values and dispositions.
Teacher quality- possession of a credential or certification to what studenst know and
are able to do with what they were taught by their teachers.This is related to the
outcomes based education. On other hand some other countries use standards for
teacher quality.
Quality teachers are defined by their attributes and characteristics while teacher
quality is defined by standards set for the profession and are validated by the
students learning outcomes.