- Title
- Finding a tipping point
- Creator
- Fischetti, John; Imig, Scott; Ndoye, Abdou; Smith, Robert
- Relation
- Teaching as a moral practice: defining, developing, and assessing professional dispositions in teacher education p. 141-161
- Relation
- http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/teaching-as-a-moral-practice
- Publisher
- Harvard Education Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The Watson School of Education is housed on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), a comprehensive four-year college in southeastern North Carolina with 11,500 students. The third largest provider of teachers in North Carolina, the Watson School offers multiple pathways into the classroom for its 1,556 students. Formal partnership agreements with over 100 schools support the different teacher education programs. In 2007, the state Department of Public Instruction introduced new teaching standards and gave institutions of higher education in North Carolina two years to 'revision' all teacher preparation programs and demonstrate 'how [each] new program is different from the current program, and how it reflects the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and the 21st century knowledge, skills, and dispositions embedded in the standards.' That mandate served as a 'tipping point,' motivating the authors and their colleagues to reexamine their teacher education programs in light of the strong emphasis that the new standards placed on professional dispositions.
- Subject
- teaching standards; higher education; professional teaching standards
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059410
- Identifier
- uon:16596
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781934742792
- Language
- eng
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