Research On American Teacher Education Certification Institution

The education level of schools has a lot to do with students in many aspects that shows big importance to students. The quality of teachers plays an direct and key role definitely in school education level. To guarantee each student have the chance to take quality education, the first thing is to provide quality teachers that is extraordinarily important for all the countries who want to develop and improve their national education. To guarantee the quality of teachers, supervision and accreditation to teacher education organization have become the key point for every country seeking.In this aspect, America teacher education accreditation organization has been playing its unique and important role around the world. America teacher education accreditation organization is an non-profit and non-government national accreditation organization of teacher education. Its target is to guarantee American teacher quality, to support the development of American teacher education, and to fit in with the needs of the society, the times and the education market.To a large extent, the development of America teacher education accreditation organization shows the development of the supervision mechanism of America teacher education. At the same time, it shows that America education requests a constantly change and development for quality teachers. Teacher education accreditation organization, as the final and key section of guaranteeing teacher education quality, must boost the strength of accreditation and quality evaluation. This paper considers with the view that is based on the development and developing trend of America teacher education accreditation organization.The chapter one is the introduction part. It elaborates three main information:the reason of choosing this topic; the analysis of the achievements and the insufficient of the relative documents; and the study design of this topic.The chapter two studies the developing situation of America teacher education accreditation organization. It introduces and discusses NCATE(the National Council Accreditation of Teacher Education) and TEAC(Teacher Education Accreditation Council),the unique two large America teacher education accreditation organization, from five different aspects that are the backgrounds, the organization introductions, the accreditation Scopes, the accreditation standards, and the accreditation procedures. All these makes readers get a better and clear cognition of America teacher education accreditation organization.The chapter three is a comparative study between NCATE and TEAC. This part analyzes the similarities and differences of the two organizations from four points:the accreditation scopes, the accreditation philosophies, the accreditation procedures, and the accreditation validity.The chapter four studies America teacher education accreditation organization itself. This part shows an integral and all-around analysis of the organization. Firstly, I talk about the third-party property of the organization and conclude its features. Secondly, I study the organization’s sixty-years experience and progress, introduce the new change and development of it. Thirdly, some features and reasons of the organization’s development are concluded. Finally, the future developing direction of America teacher education accreditation organization is discussed.The chapter five is the conclusion and inspiration part. It summarizes the gain and loss of America teacher education accreditation organization. Then it makes some proposals and points out some improvable ways that probably could be useful to countries around the world, especially to China.