Rethinking Teacher Preparation Program Design

This book provides a framework, concrete examples, and tools for designing a high quality, academically-robust preservice teacher preparation program that empowers teachers with the depth of professional knowledge and the skills required to become adaptable, responsive K-12 teachers ready to engage with diverse groups of students, and to achieve consistent learning outcomes.

Renowned teacher educators Etta R. Hollins and Connor K. Warner present a systematic approach for developing a teacher preparation program characterized by coherence, continuity, consistency, integrity, and trustworthiness, as well as one that is firmly grounded in collaboration between faculty, community members, and other school practitioners.

This book offers an evidence-based roadmap relevant for teacher educators, administrators, scholars, agencies at the state and national levels, and any organization that serves teacher educators.

1 Academically Based Teacher Preparation; 2 Collaboration Among Teacher Educators and with Stakeholders; 3 Framework for Program Design; 4 Program Explication; 5 Course Alignment; 6 Clinical Experiences in Authentic Contexts; 7 Monitoring and Assessing Progress Towards Competent Teaching; 8 Responding to Needs, Mandates, and Standards; 9 Epilogue

Etta R. Hollins is Professor Emeritus and Ewing Marion Kauffman Endowed Chair for Urban Teacher Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

Connor K. Warner is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Urban Institute for Teacher Education at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.