3.2 Teacher Competence: Making Teachers The Problem And The Solution

Public Good · Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 18m · transcript

Episode Abstract:

This episode explores teacher competency discourses. Teacher competencies are frameworks that define the knowledge, skills, practices, and behaviours expected of teachers, often translating the complex work of teaching into observable and measurable standards, suggesting a uniform and best way to teach, and ignoring the varied contexts in which teachers work. These discourses make teachers the problem and the solution, impose definitions of the “good teacher,” and ignore the multitude of factors that impact student learning. Their emergence has been motivated by neoliberal…