The Functional Orientation of American Teacher Professional Standards and Its Context and Motive
The functional orientation of standards is a key factor influencing the real-ization of the value of teacher standards.How teacher standards should be functionally ori-ented cannot be discussed in the abstract,but should be examined in a specific temporal and spatial context.In the era of education reform,in which improving the quality of educa-tion has become the overriding demand and accountability is the dominant discourse,the United States has chosen to adopt development-oriented teacher standards.The objective background of the low status of teachers,which in turn affects the supply of teachers,the ideological background of professionalism,and the subjective considerations of the federal government's desire to intervene in the improvement of teacher quality through develop-ment-oriented teacher standards in the context of decentralization are the reasons for the United States to make such a choice.
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