A License To Teach

Preface -- Licensing Teachers: The Need for Change -- What Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do -- The Need for New Assessments in Teaching -- New Assessment Strategies in Teaching -- An Architecture for a Licensing System -- Developing Prototype Assessments for Licensing -- The Internship -- Implementation Concerns -- Minnesota's Vision for Teacher Education—Recommended Program Outcomes of Future Teacher Education: Dispositions, Skills, Knowledge1 -- Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development—Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium1 -- Minnesota Licensure Standards for Teachers of English and Language Arts -- Sample Questions for an Examination of Teaching Knowledge -- Secondary English–Language Arts Performance Assessment -- Code of Ethics for Minnesota Teachers