-No education topic is more important than how to raise the quality of teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes the case for reshaping teacher preparation and professional development to enhance student learning.- --Bob Chase, president, National Education Association
Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depth overview of the issues and challenges facing the teaching profession today. This book is the first in over a decade to synthesize the most important research in the fields of teaching and teacher education. This research is also the...
-No education topic is more important than how to raise the quality of teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes the case for reshapin...
-While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education for all children are possible. Her book is positive and hopeful and serves as a fascinating account of American education and its promise of 'the right to learn' for all children.- --Washington Post
-Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. She argues that American students do so poorly by comparison...
Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998
-While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, D...
Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher...
Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher educati...
What kind of experiences do children need in order to grow and learn? What kind of knowledge do teachers need in order to facilitate these experiences for children? And what kind of experiences do teachers need to develop this knowledge? A Good Teacher in Every Classroom addresses these questions by examining the core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at the heart of any teacher education program--and recommends the policy changes needed to ensure that all teachers gain access to this knowledge. This book is the result of a blue-ribbon commission sponsored by the National...
What kind of experiences do children need in order to grow and learn? What kind of knowledge do teachers need in order to facilitate these experiences...
Based on rapid advances in what is known about how people learn and how to teach effectively, this important book examines the core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at the heart of any teacher education program. Stemming from the results of a commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends the creation of an informed teacher education curriculum with the common elements that represent state-of-the-art standards for the profession. Written for teacher educators in both traditional and alternative programs,...
Based on rapid advances in what is known about how people learn and how to teach effectively, this important book examines the core concepts and centr...
Now available in paper, this version is the first comprehensive look at the process of selecting, assessing and assisting teachers in nearly a decade. Since the publication of the first Handbook, the profession of teaching has witnessed dramatic change including a greater awareness of teacher accountability, an increase in teacher testing and the development of teaching incentives. At the same time the political, social and organizational factors affecting the performance and evaluation of teachers have been subjects of intensive scrutiny.
Reflecting these changes, the new Handbook...
Now available in paper, this version is the first comprehensive look at the process of selecting, assessing and assisting teachers in nearly a deca...
This text examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary school classrooms, how five schools have developed authentic, performance-based assessments of students' learning and how this work has interacted with and influenced the experiences students encounter.
This text examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary school classrooms, how five schools have developed authentic, performance-based a...
Jennifer French Silvia Garcia-Lopez Linda Darling-Hammond
In this skillfully crafted and engaging book, a group of student teachers - led by Linda Darling-Hammond - share their candid questions, concerns, dilemmas, and lessons learned about how to teach for social justice and social change. This text provides powerful examples of how Darling-Hammond and her students thoughtfully integrated diversity within a teacher education program - an excellent model for educators who are seeking ways to transform their teacher education programs to better prepare teachers to work effectively in multicultural classrooms. The honest reflections, case studies,...
In this skillfully crafted and engaging book, a group of student teachers - led by Linda Darling-Hammond - share their candid questions, concerns, dil...
Explains the function, structure, and philosophy of the professional development school. The text includes case studies, taken from urban and suburban settings, that illustrate the accomplishments of these schools as well as the challenges they face as they strive to create a new and viable vision for the improvement of the American educational system.
Explains the function, structure, and philosophy of the professional development school. The text includes case studies, taken from urban and suburban...
How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in a historically underachieving urban high school? In this timely book, the author draws on her experience as a participant observer to provide a unique, insider's view to both designing and implementing a culturally responsive approach to improve learning and teaching in a specific subject area. The Cultural Modeling Project, which she presents here, drew on competencies students already had in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) discourse and hip hop culture to tackle complex problems in the study of literature. Using...
How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in a historically underachieving urban high school? In this timely book, the author draws...
