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teacher empowerment  

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  • Teacher empowerment is a concept with many contested meanings, but the term initially took hold as an antidote to the dominant teacher-as-clerk model. It signaled an attempt by school people to professionalize teaching in the sense of recognizing teachers as experts in the craft and content of teaching, teachers as best able to generate and uphold teaching standards, teachers as most responsible for classroom practice. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Teacher Empowerment]

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