Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons From Exemplary Programs

Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and former sponsor of Stanford's Teacher Education Program. She is also founder and co-director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Among her many publications, she is author or editor of The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, A License to Teach, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and A Good Teacher in Every Classroom. She began her career as a public school teacher.

"This book offers the tools teachers and teacher educators need to improve the teaching profession." (Childhood Education, Winter 2007-2008)

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION.
1. Creating Powerful Teacher Education.
2. Why Teacher Education Is Important-and Difficult.
3. Addressing the Dilemmas of Teacher Education: Evidence of Success.
PART TWO: CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PRACTICE.
4. Conceptualizing the Knowledge Base for Teaching.
5. Developing and Assessing Teaching: Constructing Performances of Understanding.
6. Constructing the Clinical Experience: The Glue for Powerful Preparation.
PART THREE: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.
7. The Double Helix of Teaching: Managing the Dialectic Between Students and Subjects.
8. Educating for Equity.
9. Preparing Teachers to Reach All Students.
PART FOUR: ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CHANGE.
10. Transforming Teacher Education: Institutional Challenges.
11. Developing Professional Policy.
Appendix A. Study Methodology.
Appendix B. Survey Results.
Appendix C. Program Structures
References.
About the Author.