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Teaching as the Learning Profession: Handbook of Policy and Practice

Teaching as the Learning Profession: Handbook of Policy and Practice

Darling-Hammond
Sykes
Darling-Hammond, Linda

Paperback

Series: Jossey-Bass Education

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 078794341X
ISBN13: 9780787943417
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Jun 15 1999
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.33 Width: 7.29 Depth: 9.57
Language: English
No education topic is more important than how to raise the qualityof teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes thecase for reshaping teacher preparation and professional developmentto enhance student learning.
--Bob Chase, president, National Education Association

Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depthoverview of the issues and challenges facing the teachingprofession today. This book is the first in over a decade tosynthesize the most important research in the fields of teachingand teacher education. This research is also the basis forrecommAndations found in What Matters Most, a landmarkreport from the National Commission on Teaching and America'sFuture. The authors explore promising approaches to both policy andpractice in teacher learning. They also provide the substancebehind policy recommAndations, examining the implications of schoolreforms for teaching, current knowledge about teacher preparation, and the kinds of learning opportunities teachers will need.

Teaching as the Learning Profession includes case studiesof innovative approaches to school improvement, principles forbetter staff development, proposals for the reform of unions, andpractical as well as conceptual advice on recruitment, licensing, redefining the teaching career, enhancing diversity, developingleadership, and expanding such innovations as networks and othersustained forms of teacher-to-teacher learning.

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