In order to decrease present rates of teacher attrition a paradigm shift must occur. Instead of teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts working in isolation, a united front is needed to combat this difficult problem.
This book offers teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts, suggestions and research on how and why they need to work together to produce better-prepared teachers in the 21st Century. Students in the 21st Century are quite different from those of the past. Family structure, inclusion practices, and migrant family patterns have...