{"product_id":"teaching-as-the-learning-profession-isbn-9780787943417","title":"Teaching as the Learning Profession","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Bob Chase, president, National Education Association\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Rethinking Teacher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Aligning Teacher Education with Contemporary K-12 Reform Visions\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagdalene Lampert and Deborah Loewenberg Ball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Role of Preservice Teacher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary M. Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Historical Perspectives, Current TrAnds, and Future Directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGloria Ladson-Billings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Rethinking Teacher Professional Development\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Essentials of Effective Professional Development: A New Consensus\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillis D. Hawley and Linda Valli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Teacher and Student Learning: Strengthening Their Connection\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Sykes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Rethinking Organizations for Teacher Learning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and Induction: Policy Influences on the Supply and Quality of Teachers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Darling-Hammond, Barnett T. Berry, David Haselkorn, and Elizabeth Fideler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Organizing Schools for Teacher Learning\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Warren Little\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Networks and Reform in American Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: Rethinking Policy for Teacher Learning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Organizing the Other Half of Teaching\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia E. Koppich and Charles Taylor Kerchner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Frame and the Tapestry: Standards-Based Reform and Professional Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles L. Thompson and John S. Zeuli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Investing in Teaching as a Learning Profession: Policy Problems and Prospects\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Darling-Hammond and Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book teaches us that, if the improved learning we require forall students in a democracy is to be accomplished, both thepolicymakers and the professionals must take joint responsibilityto craft a new alliance.... Readers of this book will discover thatwithin its pages lies an impressive array of findings, analyses,interpretations, and proposals that can guide the needed efforts todesign such settings. Teaching as the Learning Profession is farmore than a superb book title. It is a mandate for the stakeholdersin whose hands lies the future of America's teachers, and throughthem, the future of America's students.\" --from the foreword by LeeS. Shulman, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancementof Teaching\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"It's common knowledge--and common sense--that the quality ofteaching strongly affects student achievement. Teaching as theLearning Profession rightly advocates enhancing instructionalquality by providing teachers with meaningful professional learningopportunities that allow them to continually improve their practiceand enable their students to excel.\" --Sandra Feldman, president,American Federation of Teachers\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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, NationalEducation Association \u003cb\u003eLINDA DARLING-HAMMOND\u003c\/b\u003e is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGARY SYKES\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of educational administration and teacher education at Michigan State University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTeaching as the Learning Profession\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume in over a decade to offer a comprehensive, research-based overview of the changes and challenges facing the teaching profession. 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