66.046 - Inspiring Teaching: Context-Specific Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium contributes to discussions about teacher education and teacher quality. It builds on a forthcoming book that examines how three mission-driven teacher education programs help teachers develop the context-specific understandings, commitments, tools and strategies they need to meet the learning needs of their students and how that preparation plays out in the teaching practice and career commitments of teachers in their early years on the job. We contend that context is more than the setting for learning to teach, that it has both content and agency. We offer a conceptual framework to illuminate different layers of context – from the classroom and school to the community and neighborhood, to the broader layers of district, state, federal and global contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 9: Teacher Education Program Design and Innovations

Chair

• Eran Tamir, Tel Aviv University

Papers

• What's Urban About Urban Teacher Preparation? A Case Study of the Urban Teacher Education Program - Kavita Kapadia Matsko, University of Chicago; Karen M. Hammerness, American Museum of Natural History

• The Role of Context in Preparing Jewish Day School Teachers: The Case of DeLeT - Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University

• Teacher Preparation and Its Impact on Teacher Careers - Eran Tamir, Tel Aviv University

• Exemplary Teaching in Catholic, Jewish, and Urban Public Schools - Eran Tamir, Tel Aviv University; Karen M. Hammerness, American Museum of Natural History

Discussant

• Anna E. Richert, Mills College