Rethinking Standards through Teacher Preparation Partnerships, livre ebook

Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment.

Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment.

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

This book documents six exemplary teacher preparation programs participating in school-university partnerships in an effort to examine issues of standards in teacher education. It describes how attention to standards has played out in contrasting demographic, political, and intellectual contexts. The authors reveal the realities and consequences involved in the complex process of implementing standards in varied program contexts often having to reconcile external mandates with the needs of their students and their own program values. Working in pairs, teacher educators formed critical friend research partnerships focused on assessment, inquiry, equity, diversity, and technology. Institutional partnerships discussed include: The University of Louisville with University of Southern Maine; Teachers College, Columbia University with University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Wheelock College.

Acknowledgments
Betty Lou Whitford

1. Teacher Education and the Leading Edge: Learning with and from One Another
Gary A. Griffin and Patrice R. Litman

2. Standardization or Standards for Professional Practice?: Public and Private Theories of Teaching in Professional Development Schools
Steve Ryan, Phyllis Metcalf-Turner and Ann Larson

3. Assessment and Standards for Professional Improvement
Walter Kimball, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley

4. Getting Beyond the Talking and into the Doing
Ann Larson, Phyllis Metcalf-Turner, Walter Kimball, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley

5. A Professional Development School Partnership for Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools
A. Lin Goodwin and Alexandria T. Lawrence

6. Elementary Teacher Education Program at University of California, Santa Barbara
Jon Snyder

7. What We Learned from Site Visits
A. Lin Goodwin, Jon Snyder, Sarah Jacobs, Ann Lippincott, Tanya Sheetz, Anne Sabatini, Alexandria T. Lawrence,and Karen Siegel-Smith

8. Beyond Standards: Creating Depth in Teacher Education Reform
Amy Otis-Wilborn and Marleen C. Pugach

9. Visions and Outcomes: Developing Standards and Assessments in Wheelock College Teacher Preparation Programs
Mieko Kamii and Susan Redditt

10. Equity in Teacher Education Standards and in Our Practice
Mieko Kamii, Amy Otis-Wilborn, Marleen C. Pugach, and Susan Redditt

About the Contributors
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