Helping students make sense of the world - Developing and Using Models
This book chapter describes the importance of instruction that focuses on the NGSS practice, developing and using models. Includes examples in both elementary and secondary classrooms, tips for getting started, and explicit connections to the other NGSS practices.

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.

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.

Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
This book speaks to the possibility of involving families and communities in schools for the purpose of transforming education systems towards equity.

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.

Learning in, from, and for Practice: What Do We Mean?
Journal article that examines various meanings of the term "practice" as used in teacher education.

The Work of Teaching and the Challenge for Teacher Education
This article argues that teaching is a trainable profession that requires shifting preservice teacher education towards developing their practices, i.e. what they can do rather than what they know. It identifies potential challenges in moving teacher education toward a detailed, practice-focused curriculum and away from perspectives that teaching is idiosyncratic work and thus impossible to train toward intentional goals.

AMTE Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics
Current recommendations for mathematics teacher preparation from the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Executive summary and additional resources publicly available.

Mentor Modules (Video Series)
This series of brief videos contain lessons, information, strategies, and practices to support mentor teachers in their work with pre-service or novice teachers, and colleagues. Student learning and provide feedback are a focus in these videos.

Sustainability, the Next Generation Science Standards, and the Education of Future Teachers
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize how human activities affect the Earth and how Earth processes impact humans, placing the concept of sustainability within the Earth and Space Sciences. We ask: how prepared are future teachers to address sustainability and systems thinking as encoded in the NGSS? And how can geoscientists support them?