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Redefining Teaching, Re-Imagining Teacher Education
The authors advocate for a conceptualization of teaching as a complex endeavor where teachers are decision-makers and reflective practitioners, with an accompanying shift of teacher education to emphasize clinical practice and pedagogies of enactment.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers: Developing sustainability literacy through futures, values, systems, and strategic thinking
The Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers (SEFT) intends to build acapacity for educators to be able to understand: (i) the broad, complex nature of sustainability, (ii) the problem-oriented, solution driven nature of sustainability, and (iii) how sustainability connects to them as both citizens and classroom teachers. SEFT embraces four ways of thinking: futures, values, systems, and strategic which are conceptualized as being bi-directional and interconnected.
Teacher Prep Topic: Institutional and programmatic change
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Beyond Equity as Inclusion: A Framework of "Rightful Presence" for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning
This essay presents a rightful presence framework that "highlights the limitations of equity as inclusion" and "orients the field towards the importance of political struggles to make present the lives of those made missing by schooling and discipline-specific norms." This essay includes two STEM classroom vignettes to illustrate this framework's tensions and guiding tenets.
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Teaching Practice: A Cross-Professional Perspective
This research article examines professional training in clinical psychology and seminary programs along with teacher preparation, in an effort to describe how professional practice is taught across different disciplines. This article identifies representation, decomposition, and approximation of practice as three cross-disciplinary pedagogies in professional education.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation
Encouraging More High School Students to Consider Teaching
Article describing and quantifying motivations and deterrents for becoming a teacher, and how to use this information to attract more teacher candidates.
Teacher Prep Topic: Recruiting, advising, mentoring pre-service students
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Developing Mathematical Habits of Mind
This book chapter defines what mathematical habits of mind are, how they are connected to the common core state standards, and how we can draw out and further develop the students' mathematical habits of mind.
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Mathematics, Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
A Framework for Practice-Based Teacher Education
This resource introduces a research-based framework for understanding practice-based teacher education (PBTE). It represents a synthesis of the recent literature on PBTE and builds a case for why student learning, professional teaching, and teacher preparation benefit from practice-based pedagogies in teacher education.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project
The Unintended Effects of the Common Core State Standards on Non-Targeted Subjects
In this working paper researchers used student achievement data from the NAEP to show that the CCSS [Common Core State Standards] had a negative effect on student achievement in non-targeted subjects, and this negative effect was largest for underprivileged students. The authors propose additional research to explain the mechanism behind this effect.
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity, Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep:State policies, Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep
Identifying a core set of science teaching practices: A delphi expert panel approach
This article describes a Delphi panel process resulting in a list of science teaching practices that can help students achieve NGSS learning goals. It is meant to be a research-based starting point for future conversation rather than a definitive to-do list of high-leverage practices.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Those who understand : Knowledge Growth in Teaching
Original writings of Shulman on the development of understanding and Pedagogical Content Knowledge: know what you teach, who you teach and why you teach.
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching , Integrative or Disciplinary Resources
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation