Powerful Teacher Education Lessons from Exemplary Programs

by Darling-Hammond, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780787972738
• ISBN10: 0787972738
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-08-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs¾ Alverno College , Bank Street College , Trinity University , University of California , Berkeley , University of Southern Maine , University of Virginia , and Wheelock College . All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.

Author Biography

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and former sponsor of Stanford's Teacher Education Program. She is also founder and co-director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Among her many publications, she is author or editor of The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, A License to Teach, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and A Good Teacher in Every Classroom. She began her career as a public school teacher.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
PART ONE Introduction
Creating Powerful Teacher Education	3	(16)
Why Teacher Education Is Important---and Difficult	19	(23)
Addressing the Dilemmas of Teacher Education: Evidence of Success	42	(35)
PART TWO Conceptualizing Knowledge, Skills, and Practice
Conceptualizing the Knowledge Base for Teaching	77	(36)
Developing and Assessing Teaching: Constructing Performances of Understanding	113	(39)
Constructing the Clinical Experience: The Glue for Powerful Preparation	152	(37)
PART THREE Bringing It All Together
The Double Helix of Teaching: Managing the Dialectic Between Students and Subjects	189	(33)
Educating for Equity	222	(30)
Preparing Teachers to Reach All Students	252	(23)
PART FOUR Issues of Context and Change
Transforming Teacher Education: Institutional Challenges	275	(38)
Developing Professional Policy	313	(64)
APPENDIXES
A. Study Methodology	345	(10)
B. Survey Results	355	(8)
C. Teacher Education Program Structures	363	(14)
References	377	(22)
About the Author	399	(2)
Name Index	401	(6)
Subject Index	407