Teacher Preparation in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Alisa J. Bates ◽  
Mary D. Burbank
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
The United States

Afterword: The Need to Re-Balance Our Portfolio of Education Means and Ends

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Margaret Smith Crocco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Historical Moment

The author responds to several themes that emerge across the articles in the special issue, considering them in light of contexts of schooling, teacher education, and the contemporary historical moment in the United States. The articles raise salient concerns about what the reform movements of the last twenty or so years have meant for scholars, practitioners, and students who are involved in schooling and teacher preparation.

scholarly journals Talking About Sustainability in Teacher Preparation in Finland and the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Susan Wiksten
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Scientific Phenomena

This article reports on empirical research findings from a case study of teacher education in Finland and the United States. A sociological perspective was deployed for investigating how the concept of sustainability was addressed in two teacher education programs. One of the programs was located in Finland and the other in the US. The study was carried out in 2015 and 2016. Seventeen semi-structured, open-ended, audio-recorded interviews form the core of the research materials. A thematic analysis of interviews was conducted for identifying articulations related to sustainability in subject-matter specialized teacher preparation. Findings from this study contribute to research on teacher preparation. Notably, by articulating how context-specific culture and social norms contribute to local models of teacher education. Findings from this study indicate that teacher training practices in Finland have encouraged students to articulate sustainability in relation to critical thinking, whereas in the US, sustainability has been articulated in relation to social justice. The key point supported by the evidence is that sustainability was by teachers and teacher educators conceptualized as being about the popularization of knowledge about ecology and biodiversity. The kind of communication that was by teachers and teacher educators described as effective for popularizing knowledge about scientific phenomena were forms of teaching that expanded on content-specific knowledge by connecting it to ethical and civic frameworks of the societies in which students live.

scholarly journals Expanding EAL expertise: Taking a multilingual stance

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Ester J. De Jong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Mainstream Teachers ◽  
Preservice Teacher Preparation

English as an Additional Language (EAL) students are increasingly taught by non-specialist, mainstream teachers. This trend calls for a reconceptualization of teacher education to explicitly and purposefully include linguistically and culturally responsive pedagogy in their curriculum. In the United States, several frameworks have been proposed to address this need, although much still needs to be learned about actual practice in preservice teacher preparation programs. In this article, I caution against the monolingual bias in preservice teacher preparation and argue for the mandate for developing a multilingual stance for all teachers of EAL students.

scholarly journals Is Equity on Their Mind? Documenting Teachers’ Education Equity Mindset

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Louis S. Nadelson ◽  
Rachelle G. Miller ◽  
Helen Hu ◽  
Na Mi Bang ◽  
Brandy Walthall
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Education Equity

An education equity mindset is fundamental to assuring all students are supported to achieve to their highest capacity.We have identified six attributes of an educational equity mindset critical to assuring teachers’ practices andprofessional choices are aligned with meeting the needs of all students. In an effort to promote education equitymindset among teachers we determined there was a need to first empirically document the construct. We surveyed 452teachers in the southern region of the United States. Our results indicate that we effectively measured our definition ofeducation equity mindset. We found multiple differences in the mindset attributes based on personal and professionalvariables. Our data indicate that teachers may hold competing or fragmented mindsets. Our research uncoveredmultiple needed lines of research and implications for teacher preparation and professional development.

Forum on teacher preparation: Development of elementary school mathematics teaching in the United States

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-437
Author(s):  
Francis J. Mueller ◽  
Paul C. Burns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics

The methods component of mathematics education in the United States has seldom been static. Particularly interesting is the cyclic nature of recurring issues and their varying proposed soltllions.

Teachers’ Declared Intentions to Shift Practice to Incorporate Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Theories

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Markham ◽  
Mary Rice ◽  
Behnaz Darban ◽  
Tsung-Han Weng
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
English Learners ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
Intentions To Change

While the number of English Learners (ELs) in the United States is steadily growing in most states, teacher preparation for working with ELs is far from universal. It fact, it is contested terrain as to whether information about topics like Second Language Acquisition (SLA) are helpful generally, and if so, what theories teachers are willing to adopt. The purpose of this study was to learn whether teachers in an SLA theory course would declare intentions to change their notions about SLA and express them as desire to shift practice. We also wondered if there were differences in pre-service versus in-service and international versus domestic students. The results confirmed that the participants were willing to change their initial theories because of participating in a second language acquisition course that presented information about SLA theories at a Completely Different or Somewhat Different level by the end of the course.

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