Not exact matches
Traditional teacher education can provide enough
theory, knowledge, and strategies to allow novices to make basic sense of the challenging and complex work of
teaching, but then we must have apprenticeships that go far beyond the few months of student
teaching typically required of pre-service teachers.
Robinson, Lloyd and Rowe noted that: «Instructional leadership
theory has its empirical origins in studies undertaken during the late 1970's and 80's of schools in poor urban communities where students succeeded despite the odds... these schools
typically had strong instructional leadership, including a learning climate free of disruption, a system of clear
teaching objectives, and high teacher expectations for students.»
They
typically include courses on educational
theory, classroom skills seminars, and a fieldwork component of student
teaching at a local school.