Cultivating Essential Teaching Capacities through Research Informed and Adaptive Teacher Education. Brandon et al., October 2015, Calgary.


Summary prepared for the CATE working conference in November 2015 at OISE/University of Toronto and will be proposed for the upcoming CATE online publication.

The theme of the conference was "What Should Canada's Teachers know? Teacher Capacities : Knowledge, Beliefs and Skills

The AADE framework is based on research on teaching and learning.

Each of the five principles leads to an essential capacity for both beginning and experienced teachers.

These principles were developed by the AADE and prepared for the Alberta Ministry of Education to align with recent conceptions of teaching for learning that foster the dispositions, skills and knowledge students need to meet the needs and challenges of the 21st century.

The five interrelated principles generate research informed images of teaching and learning for today's complex and rapidly changing world.

Each principle leads to an essential capacity for both beginning and experienced teachers.

Bransford, Darling-Hammond and LePage (2005) suggest a three part framework that organizes the "vast amounts of information relevant to effective teaching and learning" in "three general areas of knowledge, skills and dispositions"that are important for a teacher to acquire.
a) knowledge of learners and how they learn and develop within social contexts;
b) conceptions of curriculum content and goals: an understanding of the subject matter and skills to be taught in light of the social purpose of education;
c) an understanding of teaching in light of the content and learners to be taught, as informed by assessment and supported by classroom environments.