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The framework is an endeavour of the National Council for Teacher Education to encourage interested parties and stakeholders to give their views on the qualitative and quantitative improvements that could be achieved in educating teachers at school, graduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
Teacher quality assessment commonly includes reviews of qualifications, tests of teacher knowledge, observations of practice, and measurements of student learning gains. [1] [2] Assessments of teacher quality are currently used for policymaking, employment and tenure decisions, teacher evaluations, merit pay awards, and as data to inform the professional growth of teachers.
Teacher attrition rates are high in some locations e.g., 40% in the UK in 2015. [ 10 ] [ failed verification ] In the UK, it was reported in 2015 that 40% of teachers leave in their first year. [ citation needed ] Lack of professional development is cited by teachers leaving the profession as a major contributing factor.
The practitioner-teacher model involves the incorporation of practice, teaching, consultation and research responsibilities in the delivery of education. [1] The model is most closely associated with Rush University , a health sciences university developed within Rush-Presbyterian-St.-Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
A medical doctor who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children", derived from the two Greek words: παῖς ( pais "child") and ἰατρός ( iatros "doctor, healer").
The reliability coefficients for the WPPSI-III US composite scales range from .89 to .95. The UK sample for the WPPSI-III was collected between 2002–2003 and contained 805 children in an attempt to accurately represent the most current UK population of children aged 2 years 6 months to 7 years 3 months according to the 2001 UK census data.
Childcare, also known as day care, is the care and supervision of one or more children, typically ranging from two weeks to 18 years old.Although most parents spend a significant amount of time caring for their child(ren), childcare typically refers to the care provided by caregivers who are not the child's parents.
A teacher educator must be a highly competent ‘first-order educator’ (i.e. a good teacher) but also a skilled ‘second-order educator’ (i.e. capable of teaching effectively about the skill of teaching and facilitating others to acquire teaching skills). As first-order educators, they need to be proficient teachers (of 'adult' students).