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.
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