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Professional Organizations
IRA (International Reading Association)
NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English)
NAEYC (The National Association of Education of Young Children)
NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies)
ACEI (Association for Childhood Education International)
NSTA (National Science Teachers Association)
ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development)
AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education)
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
(NCATE) is the official body for accrediting teacher
preparation programs.
http://www.ncate.org/
International Society for Technology in Education
(ISTE) is the professional education organization
responsible for recommending guidelines for
accreditation to NCATE for programs in
educational computing and technology teacher preparation.
http://www.iste.org/standards/ncate/index.cfm
National Educational Technology Standards –
Focuses on National Standards for Technology in
Teacher Preparation
http://cnets.iste.org/ncate/
An effective teacher must be able to
integrate content knowledge with pedagogical
understanding to assure that all students learn
and perform at high levels. To achieve this goal, the
UDC Department of Education uses the INTASC standards
to guide the development of course content and goals in
the teacher preparation program.
The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC),
http://www.ccsso.org/projects/Interstate_New_Teacher_Assessment_and_Support_Consortium/
INTASC's Arts, Foreign Language, and Science Standards
The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers®
is a set of rigorous and carefully validated assessments that
provides accurate, reliable information for use by state education
agencies in making licensing decisions.
Students applying for student teacher must pass the Praxis I
http://www.ets.org/praxis/
The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support
Consortium (INTASC),
http://www.ccsso.org/Projects/interstate_new_teacher_assessment_and_support_consortium/780.cfm
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