(1)The phrase, competent, caring, and qualified is taken from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. (1996, September). What matters most: Teaching for America's future, vi. When TEAC speaks of leaders for the schools, it refers to all educational leaders: superintendents, intermediate superintendents, principals, vice-principals, business managers, curriculum supervisors, personnel directors, and their equivalents. (Back)

(2)Noddings, N. (1999). Caring and competence, In G. Griffin (Ed.) The education of teachers (pp 205-220). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Back)

(3)For example, the range of literary genre is extended profitably beyond fiction, poetry, and drama to include journals, diaries, and letters when the literary work of women is seriously considered. The discipline of psychology turns out to be very different from what is presented in the standard introductory textbook when it is qualified by the contributions of black psychologists, as Robert Guthrie (1976) brilliantly observed. [Guthrie, R. (1976). Even the rat was white. New York: Harper & Row]. (Back)

(4)Grade book computer programs, databases, spreadsheets, word processors, electronic mail, bulletin boards and networked conferences, Internet access, interactive videodiscs, and instructional software are now part of the modern teacher’s repertoire. (Back)

(5)One of these features must be an internship in a school setting during in which the candidate has the opportunity to apply the knowledge and to practice and develop the skills assigned to Quality Principle I to a convincing level of proficiency. (Back)