Core Practices in Teacher Education

“Grossman and Fraefel offer clear and purposeful examples of teacher education program redesign efforts aimed at enhancing teacher education through a serious focus on practice. As they illustrate, core practices are designed to support student teachers learn how to analyze, enact, and better understand the complex nature of teaching. By situating core practices at the center of teacher education, they place learning to teach at the heart of student teachers’ pedagogical development.” - John Loughran, Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University, Australia“Core Practices in Teacher Education will contribute significantly to the field of teacher education as it illuminates how a core practice approach is implemented in a global context. In doing so, the book challenges us to think beyond US teacher education and identify and learn how others are using core practices to reshape and redefine teacher education practices and pedagogy.” - Morva McDonald, vice president of leadership and governance at the National Association of Independent Schools