| Summary
outline of the TEAC accreditation framework
Goal:
TEAC’s
goal is to support the preparation of competent, caring, qualified
professional educators. Using TEAC’s quality principles and
standards for capacity, a teacher education faculty makes the case
that its program has succeeded in preparing competent, caring, and
qualified professional educators.
0.0 Requirements
for candidate status
1.0 Quality Principle I: Evidence of student learning
The core of TEAC accreditation is the evidence that the
program faculty provides in support of its claims about students’ learning and understanding of the professional education curriculum,
especially their subject matter knowledge and teaching skill.
2.0 Quality
Principle II: Valid assessment of student learning
TEAC expects program faculty to provide (1) a rationale justifying
that the assessment techniques it uses are reasonable and credible
and (2) evidence documenting the reliability and validity of the
assessments.
3.0
Quality Principle III: Institutional learning
TEAC expects that a faculty’s decisions about its programs
are based on evidence, and that the program has a quality control
system that (1) yields reliable evidence about the program’s
practices and results, and (2) influences policies and decision
making.
4.0 Standards of capacity for program quality
TEAC defines a quality program as one that has credible
evidence that it satisfies the three quality principles. However,
TEAC also requires the faculty to provide independent evidence that
the program also has the capacity--curriculum, faculty, resources,
facilities, publications, student support services, and policies--to
support student learning and program quality.
4.8 State standards
When appropriate because of TEAC’s protocol agreement with a state, an eighth component to the TEAC capacity standards (4.8) is added, with subcomponents (4.8.1, etc.) in accordance to the state’s particular requirements.
TEAC's standard
of quality: the quality of the case
TEAC's accreditation principles
Overview of TEAC's accreditation process
PowerPoint presentation of TEAC's accreditation process
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