| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Educating Teachers: Getting It Right the First Time; The Differing Natures of Education and Schooling; Conflicting Expectations for Schooling; The Custodial Function of Schools; Schools as Cultural Entities; Integrating the Custodial and Educative Functions; Teachers Who Understand and Care; Coda; Notes; References; 2 The Case for University-based Teacher Education; What Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do; Do Education Schools Help Teachers Learn?; The Capacity of School Districts to Prepare Teachers |
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Recent Responses to Critiques of Traditional Teacher EducationReferences; 3 No Standards or New Standards? The Future of Teacher Certification; Introduction; Why Certify Teachers?; Should We Abolish Certification?; Does Certification Work?; What Should States Do?; Is Teacher Assessment Practical?; In the Meantime ... ; References; 4 Teacher Educators and Teachers: The Needs for Excellence and Spunk; Who Shall Teach the Teachers?; Current Demographics; Some Views of Teacher Educators; Divisive Issues; Some Aspects of the Future; The Wisdom of Practice; A Lost Vision; Business Talk; The Teachers |
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FusionReferences; 5 The Challenges Teacher Education Presents for Higher Education; Features of Natural Teaching; The Breakdown of Natural Teaching; Similarity, Commonality and Expectations; Higher-order Forms of Learning and Knowing; The Native Theory of Mind; Additional Unfortunate Educational Consequences of Naive Views; Classroom Assessment; Limitations in the Traditional Academic Majors in Arts and Science; Harmful Consequences in the Abbreviated Study of Professional Education; The Limitations in the Discipline of Education; Education as a University Subject; Negotiation; Distribution |
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SituationConstructed; Developmental; Affective; Premature Professionalism; Higher Education's Continuing Role in Preparing Teachers and Educators; New Curriculum; New Faculty; New Instructional Settings; Principle 1: Understanding as the Goal of the School; Standards and Rubrics; Big Ideas; Valid Assessment; Principle 2: Creating a Learning Community; Principle 3: Goals of the School Apply to All Pupils; Principle 4: Career Long Learning and Development; Principle 5: The PDS Research Mission; Status Enhancement; Weakness in Traditional Educational Research; The Particular Case |
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Theoretical ContributionsPrinciple 6: Inventing a New Institution; Integrated Support Services; Decision-making in the PDS; Three Tests of Misunderstanding; New Instructional Arrangement; New Students; New Scholarship; The Need for Partnerships; Acknowledgment; Notes; References; 6 The Problem of Evidence in Teacher Education; Multiple Regression; Aspects of Teacher Education Examined; Outcomes; The Logic of the Argument; Follow-up Surveys; Aspect of Teacher Education Examined; Outcomes; The Logic of the Argument; Comparing Credentialed and Non-credentialed Teachers |
| Summary |
Addresses a subject of common interest in developed countries - the apparently diminishing role of universities in the education of teachers. There is pressure to redesign teacher education, an on-going struggle between those who see the need to strengthen the knowledge base of teachers and those who favour learning on the job; there is a perceived need to define precisely what teachers need to know and be able to do and at the same time there is relaxation of entry standards for students entering the profession in an attempt to relieve the chronic shortage of teachers. This situation is preva |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
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Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- United States.
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Teachers colleges -- Accreditation -- United States
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work
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EDUCATION -- Research.
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Teachers colleges -- Accreditation
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Teachers -- Training of
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Universities and colleges -- Curricula
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roth, Robert A.
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| ISBN |
0203982061 |
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9780203982068 |
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9786610144358 |
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6610144354 |
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0750708832 |
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9780750708838 |
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9780750708821 |
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0750708824 |
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