About TEAC Goals & Principles

Goal: Offer public assurance that educators are competent, caring, and qualified.

The common purpose of teacher education programs and other programs for 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 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.

TEAC’s Original Quality Principles and Standards for Capacity

TEAC reorganized and renumbered the Quality Principles and Standards of Capacity to enhance the way programs can organize their Inquiry Briefs and report their internal academic audit. This streamlined system is featured on the website for Inquiry Briefs written after September 1, 2009. TEAC members in the process of writing Inquiry Briefs using the original numbering system may wish to continue using the original system, or they may elect the new reorganized and renumbered system. The original Quality Principles for teacher education and educational leadership and the original Standards of Capacity appear below. All Inquiry Briefs sent to TEAC after December 2011 will need to be in the reorganized system. Please contact TEAC if current work is adversely affected by this deadline.

If you have questions, please contact Rebecca Pelton, Vice President for Membership.