Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education

by Pam Grossman (Editor)

Overview

In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies “core practices” of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion, eliciting student thinking, and maintaining classroom norms. The contributors argue that teacher education needs to do more to help teachers master these professional skills, rather than simply emphasizing content knowledge.
 
Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education outlines a series of pedagogies that teacher educators can use to help preservice students develop these teaching skills. Pedagogies include representations of practice (ways to show what this skill looks like and break it down into its component parts) and approximations of practice (the ways preservice teachers can try these skills out as they learn). Vignettes throughout the book illustrate how core practices can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum.
 
The book draws on the work of a consortium of teacher educators from thirteen universities devoted to describing and enacting pedagogies to help novice teachers develop these core practices in support of ambitious and equitable instruction. Their aim is to support teacher educator learning across institutions, content domains, and grade levels. The book also addresses efforts to support teacher learning outside formal teacher education programs.

Contributors
 
Chandra L. Alston
Andrea Bien
Janet Carlson
Ashley Cartun
Katie A. Danielson 
Elizabeth A. Davis
Christopher G. Pupik Dean
Brad Fogo 
Megan Franke
Hala Ghousseini
Lightning Peter Jay
Sarah Schneider Kavanagh
Elham Kazemi
Megan Kelley-Petersen
Matthew Kloser 
Sarah McGrew
Chauncey Monte-Sano 
Abby Reisman
Melissa A. Scheve
Kristine M. Schutz
Meghan Shaughnessy
Andrea Wells
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682531891
Publisher:	Harvard Education Press
Publication date:	02/26/2021
Series:	Core Practices in Education Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Pam Grossman is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her position at Penn, Dr. Grossman was the Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education, where she founded and led the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Grossman’s research focuses on the preparation of teachers and other professionals and on teaching quality. Her most recent work focuses on practice-based teacher education and the role of core practices of teaching in teacher preparation and professional development. She was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2009 and currently sits on the Academy’s Board of Directors. She is Chair of the Spencer Foundation Board of Directors and a member of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She was elected to the American Association of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Turn Towards Practice-Based Teacher Education: Introduction to the Work of the Core Practice Consortium Pam Grossman Sarah Schneider Kavanagh Christopher G. Pupik Dean 1

Chapter 2 Use of Representations in Teacher Education Katie A. Danielson Meghan Shaughnessy Lightning Peter Jay 15

Chapter 3 Modeling as an Example of Representation Sarah McGrew Chandra L. Alston Brad Fogo 35

Chapter 4 Approximations of Practice in Teacher Education Kristine M. Schutz Pam Grossman Meghan Shaughnessy 57

Chapter 5 Rehearsals as Examples of Approximation Megan Kelley-Petersen Elizabeth A. Davis Hala Ghousseini Matthew Kloser Chauncey Monte-Sano 85

Chapter 6 Core Practices and the Teacher Education Curriculum: Stories of Practice Ashley Cartun Kristine M. Schutz Megan Kelley-Petersen Megan Franke 107

Chapter 7 Taking Core Practices to the Field Andrea Bien Janet Carlson Elham Kazenmi Abby Reisman Melissa A. Scheve Andrea Wells 135

Chapter 8 Coda: Learning Together Katie A. Danielson Sarah Schneider Kavanagh Elham Kazemi 153

Appendix 163

Notes 191

Acknowledgments 199

About the Editor 201

About the contributors 203

Index 211

Editorial Reviews

"As the landscape of schooling, teacher education, educational research, and educational policy continue to shift, work such as this—emerging, responsive, and, most of all, deeply thoughtful—is critical." —Courtney Rath, Teachers College Record


"Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, edited by Pam Grossman, is a valuable contribution to the discussion of core teaching practices and the role that they can play in the formation of new teachers." —Education Review

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