The Teacher Effectiveness Movement
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 57 (2), 167-180
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487105285672
Abstract
The locus of control in teacher education has been outside the hands of those who educate our nation’s teachers for more than a century. Essentialists have long controlled the agenda for public schooling in America, and it is evident as well that their influence has prevailed in both the form and function of teacher education. The authors suggest that the contest between progressives and essentialists regarding teacher education has been repeatedly decided in favor of the essentialists. The current attempt to recast teacher education to focus singularly on effectiveness of classroom teachers in raising the test scores of their students is a not-unanticipated result of this enduring contest.Keywords
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