Reforming Teacher Education Something Old, Something New

by Kirby, Sheila Nataraji; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Naftel, Scott; Barney, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780833039828
• ISBN10: 0833039822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-15
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

Teachers for a New Era (TNE) is one of the latest efforts aimed at teacher education reform. Eleven institutions participate in TNE, which emphasizes evidence-based decisionmaking, collaboration between education and arts and sciences faculty, and teaching as an academically taught clinical-practice profession. The authors studied the 11 TNE sites to examine the process by which reform will result in highly qualified teachers capable of producing improvements in student learning.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
TNE in the context of the broader teacher education reform effort	p. 11
TNE's theory of change : assumptions, enabling factors, and potential outcomes	p. 29
Profiles of the TNE institutions	p. 61
Implementation progress and thoughts about sustainability of TNE	p. 69
Conclusions	p. 87
Teachers for a new era Web sites	p. 97
Implementation progress : first cohort of grantees	p. 99
Second cohort of grantees : sites included in the national evaluation	p. 125
Second cohort of grantees : sites not included in the national evaluation	p. 139
Florida A&M University	p. 151
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