TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE CARIBBEAN: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

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TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE CARIBBEAN TRENDS AND
CHALLENGES
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PROJECT TITLE

• Responses to the challenge of improving the
  quality of recruitment and selection, initial
  formation, professional development and
  evaluation of teachers in countries in the
  hemisphere.

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PROJECT PURPOSE

• By informing and transforming the teacher
  preparation and professional development policies
  and practices, national ministries of education
  can effect change in a significant percentage of
  teacher education institutions (in each country
  and by extension, region) to produce professional
  teachers with high-performing competencies.

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PROJECT OUTPUTS

• Policy development
• Policy for teacher education
• Framework for teacher education programs
• Recruitment and selection policies
• Regionally standardized teacher education
  programs and performance appraisal systems
  established

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PROJECT OUTPUTS

• Ongoing professional development programs
  implemented
• Hemispheric interchanges among and within
  sub-regions on successful teacher education
  programs

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CHALLENGES

• Identifying a coherent teacher education policy
• Insufficient attention to teacher education
• Facelessness of the teacher educator
• Variety of perspectives on teacher education

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CHALLENGES

• Envisioning teacher education from a regional
  perspective
• Changing from two year to four year program
• Bureaucratic inertia

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Initial formation/pre-service and continuing
professional education /in-service programs
PROCESS
Recruitment Selection Certification Performance e
valuation
Knowledge generation
DIMENSIONS OF TEACHER EDUCATION
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SYSTEMS MODEL FOR TEACHER EDUCATION
INPUT
PROCESS
OUTPUT

•  Prospective / practicing teachers
• Teacher Educators
• Curriculum
• Facilities
• Resources funding
• Policy

• Methodology delivery of programs
• Activities experiences of participants in
  programs

• Graduates
• Beginning practitioners
• Practitioners with enhanced competencies

EVALUATION OF SUB-COMPONENTS
FEEDBACK
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TEACHING PROFESSION LEVELS

• Level 1 ATTRACTION
• CAREER GUIDANCE
• Level 2 PREPARATION
• INITIAL FORMATION
• .CERTIFICATION/ LICENSING
• . RECRUITMENT
• Level 3 RETENTION
• PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
• CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

P R E S E R V I C E
T R A N S I T I O N
INSERVICE

• Level 4 RETIREMENT

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CAREER PATHS_____________________________________
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• CLASSROOM PRACTITIONER
• TEACHER EDUCATION
• ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP
• PARAPROFESSIONAL

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Five Stages of Instructional ExpertiseBerliner
(1995)

• Stage 1 - Novice
• Stage 2 - Advanced Beginner
• Stage 3 - Competent
• Stage 4 - Proficient
• Stage 5 - Expert

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TRENDS

• Conversion of programs
• Highly qualified teacher educators
• Policy development and validation
• Increasing dialogue

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