Teaching as the Learning Profession : Handbook of Policy and Practice

Part One: Rethinking Teacher Education. 1. Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education, Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen. 2. Aligning Teacher Education with Contemporary K-12 Reform Visions, Magdalene Lampert and Deborah Loewenberg Ball. 3. The Role of Preservice Teacher Education, Mary M. Kennedy. 4. Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Historical Perspectives, Current TrAnds, and Future Directions, Gloria Ladson-Billings. Part Two: Rethinking Teacher Professional Development. 5. The Essentials of Effective Professional Development: A New Consensus, Willis D. Hawley and Linda Valli. 6. Teacher and Student Learning: Strengthening Their Connection, Gary Sykes. Part Three: Rethinking Organizations for Teacher Learning. 7. Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and Induction: Policy Influences on the Supply and Quality of Teachers, Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett T. Berry, David Haselkorn, and Elizabeth Fideler. 8. Organizing Schools for Teacher Learning, Judith Warren Little. 9. Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement, Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney. 10. Networks and Reform in American Education, Ann Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick. Part Four: Rethinking Policy for Teacher Learning. 11. Organizing the Other Half of Teaching, Julia E. Koppich and Charles Taylor Kerchner. 12. The Frame and the Tapestry: Standards-Based Reform and Professional Development, Charles L. Thompson and John S. Zeuli. 13. Investing in Teaching as a Learning Profession: Policy Problems and Prospects, Linda Darling-Hammond and Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin.