Professional Standards Training and Understanding Pre-School Teachers’ Knowledge about Professional Standards

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Nguyen Thi Hien
Mai Van Hung

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Theimprovement of the teacher’s quality, including teachers in general and preschool teachers in particular, hasgained interested in many countries around the world. Currently, most countries in the world have issued a framework of competency or professional standards for teachers as a basis for preschool teachers to self-assess and be assessed for their qualities and competenciet. On that basis, preschool teachers can implement the plan of quality training, strengthen and improve professional expertise. This article, the author conducts research to evaluate the implementation of the professional standards manual of schools and the teacher's understanding of professional standards. This is considered an important factor that will contribute to improving the effectiveness of teacher ratings according to professional standards. In this study, the author uses mainly quantitative research methods (survey, descriptive statistics and inference statistics) to clarify the problems that the research has posed. Research results show that there is a relationship between standard manual training and preschool teachers' understanding of professional standards. Standards instructors have a good understanding of professional standards. Especially the training is organized by the school and the education and training department, so the training classes are small, with a small number of participants and therefore higher quality.

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Hien, N. T. ., & Hung, M. V. . (2021). Professional Standards Training and Understanding Pre-School Teachers’ Knowledge about Professional Standards. Journal of Asian Multicultural Research for Educational Study, 2(1), 10-15. https://doi.org/10.47616/jamres.v2i1.116
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