Developing a Standard Model of Teachers' Professional Competence on the Basis of Iran’s high Level Documents

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a standard model of teachers' professional competence on the basis of high-level documents. Methodology: This was an applied research in terms of purpose and was a sequential exploratory mixed study in terms of data collection. Data collection tools in the qualitative phase were the analysis of the content of high-level documents to extract the components. In order to ensure the validity of the content analysis checklist, content and face validity method and expert opinion were used. The data in qualitative phase were analyzed through three open, axial and selective coding methods. The findings included 69 symbols in the open coding, where they were classified in the form of 4 concepts including recruitment, teacher education, teacher retention & promotion and evaluation in the axial coding. The research instrument in the quantitative phase was a researcher-made. Findings: The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts in the field of education. Confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, and divergent validity were used to evaluate the construct validity, and hybrid reliability was used to evaluate the construct reliability. As well as, in the quantitative phase of research, structural equations under Smart PLS software were used to evaluate the standard model of teachers' professional competence. All factor loadings were significant at 99% confidence level in developing the standard model of teachers' professional competence on the basis of high-level documents of Education. Conclusion: The results indicated that Managers, teachers, and administrators can employ the symbols, concepts, and categories identified in this study in their future planning to make the teachers' professional competence.