Producing Teachers Who Understand, Believe, and Care
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From Education Week:
The release in September [1996] of “What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future,” the 151-page report of the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future, stimulated for too brief an interlude serious discussion of the country’s prospects for preparing a teaching corps equal to the challenges that confront it. Because better teaching lies at the heart of all efforts to improve the schools, expanding such a discussion should be a top priority for all those engaged in reform efforts.
With that in mind, Education Week begins this week an occasional series of Commentaries dealing with issues of teacher quality and teacher preparation raised in the commission’s report. This essay is the first of a two-part examination of current problems in teacher education by one of that field’s leading scholars, John I. Goodlad.
The release in September [1996] of “What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future,” the 151-page report of the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future, stimulated for too brief an interlude serious discussion of the country’s prospects for preparing a teaching corps equal to the challenges that confront it. Because better teaching lies at the heart of all efforts to improve the schools, expanding such a discussion should be a top priority for all those engaged in reform efforts.
With that in mind, Education Week begins this week an occasional series of Commentaries dealing with issues of teacher quality and teacher preparation raised in the commission’s report. This essay is the first of a two-part examination of current problems in teacher education by one of that field’s leading scholars, John I. Goodlad.
Citation
Goodlad, J. (1997, February 5). Producing teachers who understand, believe, and care. Education Week, p. 48.