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Competency-Based Standards In Teaching : Two Problems - One Solution, William Lauden
Competency-Based Standards In Teaching : Two Problems - One Solution, William Lauden
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Movement towards competency standards in teaching promises to bring together two parallel programs of reform: school improvement and skills formation. The first of these, school improvement has a history as long as the history of schooling. In recent decades, proposals for school improvement have led to changes in curriculum content, materials and structure; assessment; architecture; and governance of schools.
Contextualizing The Competency-Based Schooling, Victor V. Soucek
Contextualizing The Competency-Based Schooling, Victor V. Soucek
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
To a classroom teacher the current debate about work-related competencies might appear far removed from his/her classroom and have no significance for teacher education. Yet the proposed policy changes are likely to affect the work and the professional status of teachers in a very direct way. As Whitty and Willmott (1991: 312) point out, one of the fundamental problems of competency-based teaching/training (CBT) approach consists in the difficulty to define just how narrow or broad the competencies might be. A too narrow definition based on observable work-related skills might indicate a radical departure from the traditional role teachers played in …