The state identifies its low - performing teacher education institutions and has established a warranty for graduates
of teacher education programs.
Teacher professional development (PD) is a central
component of teacher education to support student use of technology and can improve student learning, but PD has had mixed results.
The intent of the award is to encourage, recognize, and promote exemplary doctoral level research that substantially contributes to the
improvement of teacher education.
The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues and tensions in this case that may help educators approach Web 2.0 technologies more strategically in other
contexts of teacher education.
I think that may help raise the bar for ensuring that instruction that happens at the
college of teacher education is really practical, relevant, and clinical based.
Teacher quality in successful education systems is a result of careful quality control at the entry
stage of teacher education rather than measuring the effectiveness of in - service teachers.
This doesn't signal the
end of teacher education, but the beginning of a new direction in training for the next generation of teachers.
The authors found that traditional measures, such as class size, investment per pupil, and
level of teacher education and certification, are not correlated with student performance.
His research interests are teacher development, leadership and innovation in schools,
pedagogy of teacher education, and qualitative research methodology.
Brent Duckor, associate professor in the
Department of Teacher Education at San José State University, frames such «non-cognitive» skills in a different way, putting the emphasis, not on whether a student inherently possesses tenacity, for instance, but on what seems to encourage perseverance and the contexts for learning that advance deeper student engagement.
MARILYN COCHRAN - SMITH is the Cawthorne
Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools and the Director of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College.
NANCY FREY, PhD is a professor of literacy in the
School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.
This summit was followed by a related strand at the 2016 National Technology Leadership Summit in September 2016 and culminated in a meeting at the American Association of
Colleges of Teacher Education in December, followed by a White House summit on Advancing Educational Technology in Teacher Preparation.