Knowledge of the Academic Discipline
Knowledge of the Academic Discipline: Teachers must, of course, have knowledge of their academic discipline and of the standards in the discipline that their state has adopted. Most states have raised standards for teachers’ content knowledge and require a college major for secondary teachers in the
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field they will be teaching. This is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for developing successful teachers.