Developing Competent Teachers : Approaches to Professional Competence in Teacher Education (Hardcover)

Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Designing a Competency Based Framework for Assessing Student Teachers 3. Profiling in Practice 4. Diversity, Change and Continuity 5. Trying to Make Profiling Useful for Teacher Education 6. ‘Competence’ Guidelines in Scotland for Initial Teacher Training 7. Professional Standards for Teachers in Australia 9. Competence Frameworks and Profiles for Newly-Qualified Teachers 10. Competency in the Mathematics Classroom 11. Competences and the First Year of Teaching 12. The ‘ASSET’ Programme 13. Exploring Competence in Nursing and Midwifery 14. The Role of a Small-Scale Research Project in Developing a Competency Based Police Training Curriculum 15. Concluding Comments Index