| This toolkit incorporates McREL’s accumulated knowledge and experience related to teacher quality and standards-based education. The audience for this toolkit includes administrators of colleges of teacher education and teacher preparation programs, pre-kindergarten through grade 12 (PreK–12) school and district administrators, and state and district staff developers. This toolkit is organized into four chapters. Chapter 1 provides background on teacher quality and describes the importance of teacher quality issues in the current policy climate of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. Chapter 2 describes assessments and resources that institutions of higher education can use to improve their teacher preparation programs. Chapter 3 describes assessments and resources that districts and schools can use to improve the professional development opportunities they provide for their teaching staff. Chapter 4 presents suggestions for using the assessment tools provided in Chapters 2 and 3 in university-school collaborations. McREL plans to add to the resources for university-school collaborations in 2005 after completing additional development work.
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