Preparing Teachers to Learn from Teaching
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 58 (1), 47-61
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487106295726
Abstract
The authors propose a framework for teacher preparation programs that aims to help prospective teachers learn how to teach from studying teaching. The framework is motivated by their interest in defining a set of competencies that provide a deliberate, systematic path to becoming an effective teacher over time. The framework is composed of four skills, rooted in the daily activity of teaching, that when deployed deliberately and systematically, constitute a process of creating and testing hypotheses about cause-effect relationships between teaching and learning during classroom lessons. In spite of the challenges of acquiring these skills, the authors argue that the framework outlines a more realistic and more promising set of beginning teacher competencies than those of traditional programs designed to produce graduates with expert teaching strategies.Keywords
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