Teacher Competency Essay

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Introduction Over the years, national, state, and local governments have been looking for ways to increase the academic performance among academically vulnerable students. To boost these students’ academic performance, governments have been implementing many programs to inspire innovative school reforms to K-12 educational systems across the United States. Several studies have shown that schools employing certain practices are linked to higher academic achievement. This paper will demonstrate that teacher competency and the school’s ability to provide an emotionally supportive environment are school characteristics associated with higher student academic success. Teacher competency For teachers to be effective in ways that increase students’ academic achievement, teachers must have the competency needed to teach in their respective content areas. For the purposes of this paper, teacher effectiveness and competency will be discussed in terms of a teacher’s ability to improve student’s academic achievement. Teacher competency is associated with the teacher’s readiness to teach their subject. According to the National Research Council (NRC), an estimated 10-20% of math and …show more content…

They found that, relative to students in the K-8 middle school configuration, students in the traditional middle school configuration perform lower on math by roughly .12-.15 standard deviations (Jacob and Rockoff, 13). Similarly, the school system not offering foster children the emotional support necessary for these academically vulnerable children has been considered as a potential barrier to foster students’ academic success (Morton 2015, 488). Therefore, actions taken to increase the amount of emotion support students experience at schools are related to increased

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