Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs

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 of Success.

PART TWO: CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PRACTICE.

4. Conceptualizing the Knowledge Base for Teaching.

5. Developing and Assessing Teaching: Constructing Performances of Understanding.

6. Constructing the Clinical Experience: The Glue for Powerful Preparation.

PART THREE: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.

7. The Double Helix of Teaching: Managing the Dialectic Between Students and Subjects.

8. Educating for Equity.

9. Preparing Teachers to Reach All Students.

PART FOUR: ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CHANGE.

10. Transforming Teacher Education: Institutional Challenges.

11. Developing Professional Policy.

Appendix A. Study Methodology.

Appendix B. Survey Results.

Appendix C. Program Structures

References.

About the Author.