Sentences with phrase «inadequate teacher knowledge»

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Unfortunately, teachers who search for research - based strategies to help struggling older readers find that the knowledge base is «sizeable but sketchy, unfocused, and inadequate as a basis for reform in reading comprehension instruction» (p. xii), according to the report.

Classroom teachers often feel professionally inadequate to do a good job with the knowledge and skills they received from a typical teacher preparation program that lacks attention to linguistically diverse learners (Balderrama 2001; Darling - Hammond et al. 2002; Gandara et al. 2005).