TEAC -

Teacher Education Accreditation Council

Goal: Public assurance that educators are competent, caring, and qualified*

Quality Principle I

1.1 Subject matter knowledge
1.2 Pedagogical knowledge
1.3 Caring and teaching skill

Each component of element 1.0 includes the following cross-cutting liberal education themes: Learning how to learn, multicultural perspectives and accuracy, and technology.

Quality Principle II

2.0 Valid assessment of student learning

2.1 Rationale for the links
2.2 Evidence of valid assessment

Quality Principle III

3.0 Institutional learning

3.1 Program decisions and planning based on evidence
3.2 Influential quality control system

4.0 Standards of capacity for program quality

TEAC's accreditation principles

Goal, principles, and standards for educational leadership

*The common purpose of teacher education programs and other programs for those professionals who work in schools is to prepare competent, caring, and qualified educators. The faculty members seeking TEAC accreditation of their program are required to affirm this straightforward goal as the goal of their program.

The TEAC quality principles and standards for capacity are the means by which the faculty makes the case that its professional education program has succeeded in preparing competent, caring, and qualified professional educators .(Top)

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