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Teaching and learning are complex processes that includes more than methodology. Increased knowledge about and understanding for teachers work will influence the development of teacher education and also have importance for teacher's professionalism. The societal change involves a new way of thinking as it is difficult to foster the new generation children with yesterday methods. However, there are many different opinions about the best way to get high qualified teaching. One method is standards for teaching, which have clear descriptions about what is good teaching. Standards for teaching origin from the US, where the method is established and used in both teacher education and teaching in school, with the aim to high up the professional practise of teaching. In California, for example, it has become obvious that standards are necessary for the teaching profession. Besides the aim to support first-year and second-year teachers the standards also aim to enable teachers` possibilities to define and develop their teaching. Although standards for teaching are used in Europe, it is still a rather unknown phenomenon among teachers in Sweden.The purpose of this study is to highlight if teacher standards from Wisconsin can have relevance for Swedish teachers and in that case how. A questionnaire study among novice teachers, working with pupils aged 7-19 year, in some municipalities in Sweden will be carried out in February. The questionnaire with the standards is translated into Swedish. The questions, connected to the standards, concern the teachers` assessment of the importance of the different standards. The questionnaire will be electronic and a letter with explanations about standards in common will be attached. A comparative study between Sweden and Wisconsin, concerning mentors` opinion of standards to support the mentoring process, has been a guide for this study.Although this way of thinking is new for most of the teachers in Sweden, and since it still is uncommon to highlight standards in teacher education, there is a hope that the study will introduce standards for teaching and contribute to knowledge about what standards are, how they can be used and how they can contribute to improve teaching and learning.. Hopefully the results will indicate that standards can contribute to give teaching frames that can facilitate the process of teachers licensing as well as the creation of a common language for teachers. ReferencesCalifornia Standards for the Teaching Profession. Retrieved January 15, 2007, fromhttp://www.ctc.ca.gov/reports/cstpreport.pdf Illionis Professional Teaching Standards. Retrieved January 15, 2007 fromhttp://www.isbe.state.il.us/profprep/PDFs/ipts.pdf Cowan, P. Morrison, H. , Wylie, C., McBride, F. ,Lee, M. and Greenway, G. (2002).Disseminating Standards in Higher Order Learning: Systematically Valid Instruments forStandards-Based Education Reform. Interactive Learning Environments, 10, 3, 217-241. Ganser, T. & Lindgren, U. (2007). An Exploration of Beginning Teacher Mentoring in theContext of Teacher Standards. Paper to be presented at AERA in Chicago April 9-13.
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