Powerful Teacher Education

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 education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.

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 education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.

Preface.Acknowledgments.PART ONE: INTRODUCTION.1. Creating Powerful Teacher Education.2. Why Teacher Education Is Important-and Difficult.3. Addressing the Dilemmas of Teacher Education: Evidence ofSuccess.PART TWO: CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ANDPRACTICE.4. Conceptualizing the Knowledge Base for Teaching.5. Developing and Assessing Teaching: Constructing Performancesof Understanding.6. Constructing the Clinical Experience: The Glue for PowerfulPreparation.PART THREE: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.7. The Double Helix of Teaching: Managing the Dialectic BetweenStudents and Subjects.8. Educating for Equity.9. Preparing Teachers to Reach All Students.PART FOUR: ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CHANGE.10. Transforming Teacher Education: InstitutionalChallenges.11. Developing Professional Policy.Appendix A. Study Methodology.Appendix B. Survey Results.Appendix C. Program StructuresReferences.About the Author.