Standards

NCATE Standards

1. Candidate Performance
   
   Standard 1: Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions
   
   Candidates preparing to work in schools as teachers or other professional school personnel know and demonstrate the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn. Assessments indicate that candidates meet professional, state, and institutional standards.
   
   Standard 2: Assessment System and Unit Evaluation
   
   The unit has an assessment system that collects and analyzes data on the applicant qualifications, candidate and graduate performance, and unit operations to evaluate and improve the unit and its programs.
   
2. Unit Capacity
   
   Standard 3: Field Experiences and Clinical Practice
   
   The unit and its school partners design, implement, and evaluate field experiences and clinical practice so that teacher candidates and other school personnel develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn.
   
   Standard 4: Diversity
   
   The unit designs, implements, and evaluates curriculum and experiences for candidates to acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn. These experiences include working with diverse higher education and school faculty, diverse candidates, and diverse students in K-12 schools.
   
   Standard 5: Faculty Qualifications, Performance, and Development
   
   Faculty are qualified and model best professional practices in scholarship, service, and teaching, including the assessment of their own effectiveness as related to candidate performance. They also collaborate with colleagues in the disciplines and schools. The unit systematically evaluates faculty performance and facilitates professional development.
   
   Standard 6: Unit Governance and Resources
   
   The unit has the leadership, authority, budget, personnel, facilities, and resources, including information technology resources, for the preparation of candidates to meet professional, state, and institutional standards.

From NCATE 2000 Newly Revised Unit Standards *.

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