Educational accreditation

Analyze the concept of a profession and explain the ethical and professional obligations of practitioners A profession can be said to be a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, of which its purpose is to supply objective counsel and service to the others, for a direct and definite compensation . It denotes an occupation that professes to develop a system of knowledge in a special problem area such as religion, health or law . The special knowledge that they have gives them an…

Introduction Thirty years ago, professional guidelines in supervision were almost non-existent in the field of counseling and counselor education (Bernard, 2005). Although authors, such as, Eckstein and Wallerstein (1958), discussed supervision as early as the 1950’s, there was little research articulating the supervision process separate from traditional psychotherapy. By the late 1970’s, supervision models were being developed, such as, Stoltenburg’s Developmental Model (1981) that…

Professional Standards INTASC Standards: 4, 5 Standard 4 – “The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teaches and creates learning experiences that make these aspects of the discipline accessible and meaningful for learners to assure mastery of the content (Henson, 2009).” As an educator, it is necessary for me to expand my teaching techniques and to present instruction that will help foster students’ advancement of critical…

INTASC Standards: 8, 9 Standard #8 - “The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner (Henson, 2009).” As a teacher it is important to use a variety of assessments to evaluate and ensure that students understand and are learning the content presented in the classroom. In addition to giving traditional assessments such as a quiz, exam or paper, alternatives that will be…

One thing that emerges to me is that education is never either a free drive in American culture or a standard operator for social change. It is an impression of the first open deliberations speaking place in the more high society. Amid the provincial time proficiency was to advance religious conventionality. In the consecutive time when colonials toppled the government and built up, another republic pioneers were worried about developing an informed citizenry. However, their vision was…

Depending on what type of education a person chooses, he/she can still learn in different environments where he/she can choose which will be more of a benefit. Whether or not it is formal or informal, these environments can have advantages and disadvantages. Contrary to the formal environment, the informal environment will be more of an advantage as one can learn more outside of higher education. In author Gregor Damnik’s article “Informal Learning With Technology: The Effects Of…

the cut-off score to these courses the teachers use their own way of grading them and the cut-off point is different for different teachers teaching the same course. These differences bother the newly authorized body for quality of education and accreditation. Different teachers use their own discretion in determining cut-off score; hence there is a need for standardization because every teacher sets standardization procedures in its own way. An important fact to remember is that the choice of…

General description The Montessori Method is a great curriculum to look into for children of all ages, with or without special needs. The main goal of Montessori programs is to foster a child’s natural desire to learn. The role of the educator is more to guide than instruct them while linking activities to their interests, needs, and developmental level (Thomason, 2013). Montessori schools cater children from birth to about 18 years old. The typical grouping of classes is 0-3, 3-6,6-12,12-15,…

familiarization of the learner will ethical concepts related to the field of medicine, and later on progressing through the units to more complicated subjects, such as Tort Law, Confidentiality, Abortion, Cloning. A challenging portion into any educational experience is to select a method of assessment that will demonstrate students’ knowledge and skills acquired during the course. There are many different choices to measure students’ performance. In this course the students’ performance was…

services, I understand that in order to become proficient in this area, I need to maintain and apply the skills that were given throughout the course. Some of the skills that I have learned are how to properly identify a child who may need special educational services, assess and evaluate students for special education and how to properly hold an IEP. These skills are important because it is necessary as a special educator to know when and how to evaluate a child who may need additional…