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Tables of Contents for A License to Teach
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figures
vii
 
Preface
ix
 
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Licensing Teachers: The Need for Change
1
15
A New Mission for Teaching
2
1
New Directions in Licensing
3
3
The Need for Licensing Reform
6
1
Standard Setting in Teaching
7
9
What Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do
16
33
The Knowledge Base for Teaching
19
8
Characterizing Teaching Knowledge
27
3
Research on Teaching
30
2
Sources of Knowledge About Teaching
32
2
Defining What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do
34
4
Professional Standards for Teaching
38
7
The Implications of Performance-Based Standards for Licensure
45
4
The Need for New Assessments in Teaching
49
22
Problems with Existing Tests of Teaching
50
17
Efforts to Transform Assessments of Teaching
67
1
The Emergence of New Assessments in Teaching
68
3
New Assessment Strategies in Teaching
71
18
New Assessment Strategies
71
1
Methods for Assessing Knowledge and Skill
72
15
Assigning Methods to Purposes
87
2
An Architecture for a Licensing System
89
21
Considerations in Developing Assessments
90
2
Developing a Structure for an Assessment System
92
3
General Structure: Components of Professional Teaching
95
5
Teacher Knowledge, Judgment, and Behavior
100
3
Structuring the Tests
103
5
The Licensing System in Summary
108
2
Developing Prototype Assessments for Licensing
110
16
Prototypes of Minnesota Assessments of Knowledge and Skill
111
14
Beyond Assessment: Communicating a Conception of Teaching
125
1
The Internship
126
22
The Case for a Supervised Teaching Internship
126
4
Internships in Other Professions
130
6
Standards for an Internship Program for Teaching
136
9
Assessment During the Teaching Internship
145
3
Implementation Concerns
148
21
Implementing the Internship
149
6
Implementing Performance Assessments
155
10
Conclusions
165
4
Appendix A: Minnesota's Vision for Teacher Education
169
9
Appendix B: Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development---Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium
178
11
Appendix C: Minnesota Licensure Standards for Teachers of English and Language Arts
189
2
Appendix D: Sample Questions for an Examination of Teaching Knowledge
191
4
Appendix E: Secondary English--Language Arts Performance Assessment
195
7
Appendix F: Code of Ethics for Minnesota Teachers
202
1
References
203
14
About the Book and Authors
217
2
Index
219