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Teaching as the Learning Profession is the first volume in over a decade to offer a comprehensive, research-based overview of the changes and challenges facing the teaching profession. These are the ideas that informed the recommendations presented in
What Matters Most, a groundbreaking report from the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
List of contents
Part One: Rethinking Teacher Education 1. Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education
Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen 2. Aligning Teacher Education with Contemporary K-12 Reform Visions
Magdalene Lampert and Deborah Loewenberg Ball 3. The Role of Preservice Teacher Education
Mary M. Kennedy 4. Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Historical Perspectives, Current TrAnds, and Future Directions
Gloria Ladson-Billings Part Two: Rethinking Teacher Professional Development 5. The Essentials of Effective Professional Development: A New Consensus
Willis D. Hawley and Linda Valli 6. Teacher and Student Learning: Strengthening Their Connection
Gary Sykes Part Three: Rethinking Organizations for Teacher Learning 7. Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and Induction: Policy Influences on the Supply and Quality of Teachers
Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett T. Berry, David Haselkorn, and Elizabeth Fideler 8. Organizing Schools for Teacher Learning
Judith Warren Little 9. Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement
Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney 10. Networks and Reform in American Education
Ann Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick Part Four: Rethinking Policy for Teacher Learning 11. Organizing the Other Half of Teaching
Julia E. Koppich and Charles Taylor Kerchner 12. The Frame and the Tapestry: Standards-Based Reform and Professional Development
Charles L. Thompson and John S. Zeuli 13. Investing in Teaching as a Learning Profession: Policy Problems and Prospects
Linda Darling-Hammond and Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin
About the author
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
GARY SYKES is professor of educational administration and teacher education at Michigan State University.
Summary
* 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.
