Full Description
The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs, including improved strategies for selection into the program; key ingredients for pre-service course work; courses that emphasis skill development in critical areas of teaching practice and more effective evaluation of student teaching that emphasizes professional development.
Contents
Preface: The harpsichord theory of learning to teach
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What's wrong with teacher education?
Chapter 1: Where do we start?
Chapter 2: Connecting means with ends
Chapter 3: To Know, to understand, and to know how: a theoretical framework
Chapter 4: Some Radical Ideas
Part II: Developing Competence
Chapter 5: Introduction to Part II
Chapter 6: Developing Competence: Kids: Learning to observe, diagnose and deal with individual behavior
Chapter 7: Developing Competence: Teacher-Student Interactions
Chapter 8: Developing Competence: The teacher as curriculum maker
Chapter 9: Developing Competence: Student teaching
Chapter 10: In retrospect
Appendix
Bibliography
