Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education

In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies "core practices" of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion, eliciting student thinking, and maintaining classroom norms. The contributors argue that teacher education needs to do more to help teachers master these professional skills, rather than simply emphasizing content knowledge.

Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education outlines a series of pedagogies that teacher educators can use to help preservice students develop these teaching skills. Pedagogies include representations of practice (ways to show what this skill looks like and break it down into its component parts) and approximations of practice (the ways preservice teachers can try these skills out as they learn). Vignettes throughout the book illustrate how core practices can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum.

The book draws on the work of a consortium of teacher educators from thirteen universities devoted to describing and enacting pedagogies to help novice teachers develop these core practices in support of ambitious and equitable instruction. Their aim is to support teacher educator learning across institutions, content domains, and grade levels. The book also addresses efforts to support teacher learning outside formal teacher education programs.

Contributors

Chandra L. Alston
Andrea Bien
Janet Carlson
Ashley Cartun
Katie A. Danielson
Elizabeth A. Davis
Christopher G. Pupik Dean
Brad Fogo
Megan Franke
Hala Ghousseini
Lightning Peter Jay
Sarah Schneider Kavanagh
Elham Kazemi
Megan Kelley-Petersen
Matthew Kloser
Sarah McGrew
Chauncey Monte-Sano
Abby Reisman
Melissa A. Scheve
Kristine M. Schutz
Meghan Shaughnessy
Andrea Wells


Author: Pam Grossman
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
Published: 05/29/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781682531877
ISBN10: 1682531872
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Professional Development
- Education | Research

About the Author
Pam Grossman is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her position at Penn, Dr. Grossman was the Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education, where she founded and led the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Grossman's research focuses on the preparation of teachers and other professionals and on teaching quality. Her most recent work focuses on practice-based teacher education and the role of core practices of teaching in teacher preparation and professional development. She was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2009 and currently sits on the Academy's Board of Directors. She is Chair of the Spencer Foundation Board of Directors and a member of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She was elected to the American Association of Arts and Sciences in 2017.