Saw this, and thought there may have been a thread, but there is not.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/al...777/story.html
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A panel appointed by Alberta's education minister is recommending the province develop programs to nurture strong teachers, scrutinize and weed out weak ones and overhaul how competency and misconduct reviews are handled.
In a report to be delivered Monday, the Task Force for Teaching Excellence calls for new competency reviews every five years to determine whether teachers should be stripped of their certification, requiring teachers to focus more on "inquiry and discovery" based instruction and to make misconduct investigations more transparent.
"This is the most important thing we're going to do in the next 20 years in education," Education Minister Jeff Johnson told the Herald in a phone interview Sunday. "The quality of teachers is really important."
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The teachers are not happy:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...ents-1.2632411
Quote:
The Alberta Teachers' Association is denouncing a proposal to make teachers undergo competency reviews every five years, calling it a “direct assault” on their profession.
The recommendation is one of several contained in the report of the Task Force for Teaching Excellence that the ATA is objecting to.
Under the system proposed by the task force, teachers would have to prove they are competent at their jobs in order to renew their certification – and responsibility for that review would be taken away from the ATA.
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Like most things, the idea is sound (IMO), but it could fall down in the implementation.
I think that teaching/teachers hold a very important job, and a review would be a good thing. It might highlight not only inadequacies, but also highlight successes.