Supporting Teachers: Improving Instruction - Examples of Research-based Teacher Education
| Title in English | Supporting Teachers: Improving Instruction - Examples of Research-based Teacher Educatio |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | In the last decades, progress in the field of pre-service and in-service teacher education has been evident. Despite the developments of curriculum programs, models and designs, various challenges are shaping the field. Models of teacher education are usually presented as research-based, but related research is often invisible or fragmented. The support for teachers and the improvement of instruction are only loosely coupled and their interdependence is not highlighted. These challenges impelled us to initiate this book publication. Individual approaches/models/designs of pre-service and in-service teacher education developed by the authors (action research, video clubs, lesson studies, and others) are introduced and their power and spaces for further development are highlighted. In the concluding chapter, a reflective discussion across individual approaches to reveal particular issues that are shaping the field is provided. Practitioners, as well as researchers in the field of teacher education, could benefit from this book. |