AFT 

P. 5

American Federation of Teachers

Professional teacher organization (union)

NEA

p. 5

National Education Association

Profession organization for teachers (union

INTASC Standards

p.9

Interstate new Teacher Assessment & Support Consortium Standards

Standard Requirements for a beginning professional teacher

NBPTS

P. 10

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Created in 1987, Independent, non-profit, nonpartisan organization which created

Standards for Accomplished Teachers

LICENSURE

P. 10

The process of meeting basic requirements and standards for becoming a practicing teacher

CERTIFICATION

P. 10

Referes to experienced teachers who demonstrate teaching excellence as defined by the NBPTS

ACCREDITATION

P. 10

A process of review in which outside experts decide whether a program is worthy of preparing professionals.

TENURE

P. 15

A continuing contract

Tenured teachers can be released only when "just cause," or good reason, can be demonstrated.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

P. 15

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

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

P. 17

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.

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS

P. 19

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.

TEACHER PORTFOLIOS

P. 19

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.

THE PRAXIS SERIES

P. 19

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 performance

Evaluates basic skills in reading, writing & math as well as professional education and subject matter knowledge

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

P. 23

Negotiation of the professional rights and responsibiliteis of teachers as a group