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| American Federation of TeachersProfessional teacher organization (union) |
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| National Education AssociationProfession organization for teachers (union |
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| Interstate new Teacher Assessment & Support Consortium StandardsStandard Requirements for a beginning professional teacher |
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| National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsCreated in 1987, Independent, non-profit, nonpartisan organization which createdStandards for Accomplished Teachers |
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| The process of meeting basic requirements and standards for becoming a practicing teacher |
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| Referes to experienced teachers who demonstrate teaching excellence as defined by the NBPTS |
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| A process of review in which outside experts decide whether a program is worthy of preparing professionals. |
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| A continuing contractTenured teachers can be released only when “just cause,” or good reason, can be demonstrated. |
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| The most common type of evaluation.A helping process aimed at improving teaching techniques.
Evaluators concentrate on in class performance & help teachers perceive what is happening during instruction.Philosophy of: 1. Individual Excellence, 2. Self-Evaluation, 3. Feedback to improve teaching |
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| Collects and interprets data over a specified period of time to evaluat such things as teachers’ competence and teaching outcomes.Results inform decisions about hiring, compensation, status, tenure ; termination. |
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| Evaluations that reflect people’s true abilities to perform under real-life conditions.Concerned less with recognition and recall of facts and more with ability to apply what they know. |
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| A collection of artifacts that communicate a teacher’s abilities to perform her job.Might contain: tests and homework assignments the teacher gives students, samples of students’ work, lesson plans and a videotape of a lesson. |
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| A series of tests developed and sold by the Educational Testing Service (ETS.)Assesses skills and knowledge at each stage of a beginning teacher’s career, from;entry into teacher ed to classroom performanceEvaluates basic skills in reading, writing ; math as well as professional education and subject matter knowledge |
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| Negotiation of the professional rights and responsibiliteis of teachers as a group |
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