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Book SynopsisNo education topic is more important than how to raise the qualityof teaching in America''s schools. This book eloquently makes thecase for reshaping teacher preparation and professional developmentto enhance student learning.
--Bob Chase, president, National Education Association
Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depthoverview of the issues and challenges facing the teachingprofession today. This book is the first in over a decade tosynthesize the most important research in the fields of teachingand teacher education. This research is also the basis forrecommAndations found in What Matters Most, a landmarkreport from the National Commission on Teaching and America''sFuture. The authors explore promising approaches to both policy andpractice in teacher learning. They also provide the substancebehind policy recommAndations, examining the implications of schoolreforms for teaching, current knowledge about teacher preparation,and the kinds of learning
Trade Review"This book teaches us that, if the improved learning we require forall students in a democracy is to be accomplished, both thepolicymakers and the professionals must take joint responsibilityto craft a new alliance.... Readers of this book will discover thatwithin its pages lies an impressive array of findings, analyses,interpretations, and proposals that can guide the needed efforts todesign such settings. Teaching as the Learning Profession is farmore than a superb book title. It is a mandate for the stakeholdersin whose hands lies the future of America's teachers, and throughthem, the future of America's students." --from the foreword by LeeS. Shulman, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancementof Teaching
"It's common knowledge--and common sense--that the quality ofteaching strongly affects student achievement. Teaching as theLearning Profession rightly advocates enhancing instructionalquality by providing teachers with meaningful professional learningopportunities that allow them to continually improve their practiceand enable their students to excel." --Sandra Feldman, president,American Federation of Teachers
"No education topic is more important than how to raise the qualityof teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes thecase for reshaping teacher preparation and professional developmentto enhance student learning." --Bob Chase, president, NationalEducation Association
Table of ContentsPart One: Rethinking Teacher Education
1. Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education
Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen
2. Aligning Teacher Education with Contemporary K-12 Reform Visions
Magdalene Lampert and Deborah Loewenberg Ball
3. The Role of Preservice Teacher Education
Mary M. Kennedy
4. Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Historical Perspectives, Current TrAnds, and Future Directions
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Part Two: Rethinking Teacher Professional Development
5. The Essentials of Effective Professional Development: A New Consensus
Willis D. Hawley and Linda Valli
6. Teacher and Student Learning: Strengthening Their Connection
Gary Sykes
Part Three: Rethinking Organizations for Teacher Learning
7. Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and Induction: Policy Influences on the Supply and Quality of Teachers
Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett T. Berry, David Haselkorn, and Elizabeth Fideler
8. Organizing Schools for Teacher Learning
Judith Warren Little
9. Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement
Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney
10. Networks and Reform in American Education
Ann Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick
Part Four: Rethinking Policy for Teacher Learning
11. Organizing the Other Half of Teaching
Julia E. Koppich and Charles Taylor Kerchner
12. The Frame and the Tapestry: Standards-Based Reform and Professional Development
Charles L. Thompson and John S. Zeuli
13. Investing in Teaching as a Learning Profession: Policy Problems and Prospects
Linda Darling-Hammond and Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin
