Background Materials - NCTAF/GWU

QUALITY TEACHER PREPARATION: STRONG ACADEMIC PREPARATION FOR TEACHING

Background Materials:

• How People Learn (1999) and How Students Learn (2005) is available from the National Academies' web site
• No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children, NCTAF, January 2003
• Summary of Remarks by Nancy Zimpher, President, University of Cincinnati (These remarks were made at NCTAF's June 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation.)
• Teaching for the Future: Fostering the Twin Abilities of Knowing How to Learn and Think Critically, a commissioned paper written by Diane F. Halpern from the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College.
  

Additional Resources:

• Examining Teacher Preparation: Does the Pathway Make a Difference?, from the Research Consortium on Teacher Policy
• K-12 and Teacher Education, from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Panel Urges New Testing for Teachers, Education Week, May 25, 2005
• Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do, Edited by Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford. This book stems from the results of a teacher education commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education (NAE).
• Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education, a comprehensive study on teacher education research from the American Educational Research Association.
• Teacher Education and the Public Trust, by Daniel Fallon, the Education Division Program Chair at Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Teachers for a New Era, an initiative designed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• The Politics of Partnerships for Teacher Education Redesign and School Renewal, Journal of Teacher Education, May/June 2005 (subscription required)