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The Quest for Dream Teams: On Assessing Teacher Qualifications

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1 The Quest for Dream Teams: On Assessing Teacher Qualifications
What? Context & Criteria Why? High Yield & Reasonable Cost How? Catering for Institutions & People So what? Situational Awareness Revisited In which direction? National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

2 1. What? Context & Criteria
National Defence University / Defence Language Centre Professional military communication in foreign languages Criteria for assessing teacher qualifications: Testing foreign language mastery and use (range, accuracy, fluency, interaction, coherence) Testing pedagogic skills (didactic, linguistic, and methodological approaches) Baselining (teamworking skills) National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

3 2. Why? High Yield & Reasonable Cost
Language specialists’ areas of expertise Civil servants’ availability Teaching (planning, executing, evaluating) Translating, interpreting, consulting Focusing on research and development Materials Methods Strategies National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

4 3. How? Catering for Institutions, Specialists, and Clients
CONSTRUCTIVE CO-OPERATING Organizational requirements – specialists’ and clients’ needs (Charles Handy) TIT FOR THAT Results draw from fostering creativity and independence APPROXIMATING THE ETHICAL IDEAL Allowing for responsible freedom and facilitating the creation of tools for effectiveness (Peter Drucker) National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

5 4. So what? Situational Awareness Revisited
Forming, developing, and sustaining a dream team presupposes tapping onto senses and sensiblities when both assessing prospective specialists and navigating the existing social and knowledge network, a given expert organization National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

6 5. In which direction? Continuing to transparently operate on a plurilingual and intercultural continuum Was wir heute tun, entscheidet darüber, wie morgen die Welt aussieht  conscious implementing What’s important is not where we stand but in which direction we move  selection and maintenance of the aim National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

7 Kiitos. National Defence University / Defence Language Centre / Päivi Kilpinen, Chief of Branch, Language Training

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