Teacher Quality - Management Strategies in Peparing Professional Teachers for Facing Global Challenges

Mohammad Fakry Gaffar

2017

Abstract

In the 21st century education, teachers continue to play strategic roles in educating younger generation. Schools, where younger generation receive their educational opportunities continue to change in responding to the challenges of the century. These challenges are global in nature and have been penetrating all aspects of human life including education. Global challenges that education has been continuously facing include: the impact of global economy upon job markets, impact of ICT advancement influencing the life styles and the way the people think and act, the emergence of new cultures that become a dominant factor in the cultures of younger generation which are not always suitable to the existing values the people have been adopting from generation to generation. These challenges have brought about changes of needs of schools and leaners. Schools are responsible for interpreting them into the content of education and the way the content is presented to the learners all these challenges keep changing and education is forced to be capable of meeting these changing challenges. Teacher responsibility relates to the capacity of schools in preparing the educational opportunity relevant to the needs of the learners. Teacher roles relate to the process of teaching and learning to make the learning be capable of equipping the learners to face whatever challenges brought about by globalization process occurring in the society. Studies on various strategies adopted and experienced by higher education institutions of many countries show that there were many alternative pathways in preparing quality teachers capable of educating younger generation to face future challenges. In ASEAN countries studies show that teacher education programs were conducted at the undergraduate level of the universities employing various pathways. It is believed there is no single pathway appropriate for preparing quality teachers. In countries such as USA, Australia and several countries in Europe, competent teachers are required to perform quality standards specifically determined for the teachers. Attributes that make the quality teachers, although of great varieties, are built into the behaviours of the teachers and are directed to the accomplishment of evidence of teacher quality performance in the process of learning. The Teachers must demonstrate that their performance have the impact upon the learning process and learning outcome. However, one fundamental question is raised: How are all of these quality attributes developed and built into the behaviours of prospective teachers through the process of teacher preparation program of the universities mandated for the purpose. The universities employ various strategies and pathways and are supported by well qualified faculty members and effective management in conducting the teaching learning processes for the prospective teachers. Management strategies aimed at coordinating all efforts directed to prepare the quality teachers in the most efficient and effective ways are needed. These management strategies are instrument to ensure that the quality standards determined are implemented, the process of teaching learning occurring in the teacher education institutions are effective, the professional field experiences undertaken at schools provide adequate opportunities to prospective teachers to perfectly blend all knowledge and skills previously received through the programs into the behaviours of prospective teachers Without the application of these strategies the efficiency and effectiveness of the programs cannot be ensured. This means that management strategies are imperative to be formulated and implemented to make teacher education programs a great success. The management strategies ensure that the prospective teachers are well equipped to face global challenges being faced by the schools and the teachers from time to time. It is believed that only well qualified teachers who are capable of facing the changing global challenges.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gaffar M. (2017). Teacher Quality - Management Strategies in Peparing Professional Teachers for Facing Global Challenges.In 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES, ISBN 978-989-758-314-8, pages 425-431. DOI: 10.5220/0007051909740980

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ices17,
author={Mohammad Fakry Gaffar},
title={Teacher Quality - Management Strategies in Peparing Professional Teachers for Facing Global Challenges},
booktitle={1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,},
year={2017},
pages={425-431},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007051909740980},
isbn={978-989-758-314-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,
TI - Teacher Quality - Management Strategies in Peparing Professional Teachers for Facing Global Challenges
SN - 978-989-758-314-8
AU - Gaffar M.
PY - 2017
SP - 425
EP - 431
DO - 10.5220/0007051909740980