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Teaching as the Learning Profession: Handbook of Policy and Practice
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"No education topic is more important than how to raise the qualityof teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes thecase for reshaping teacher preparation and professional developmentto enhance student learning."
--Bob Chase, president, National Education Association

Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depthoverview of the issues and challenges facing the teachingprofession today. This book is the first in over a decade tosynthesize the most important research in the fields of teachingand teacher education. This research is also the basis forrecommAndations found in What Matters Most, a landmarkreport from the National Commission on Teaching and America'sFuture. The authors explore promising approaches to both policy andpractice in teacher learning. They also provide the substancebehind policy recommAndations, examining the implications of schoolreforms for teaching, current knowledge about teacher preparation,and the kinds of learning opportunities teachers will need.

Teaching as the Learning Profession includes case studiesof innovative approaches to school improvement, principles forbetter staff development, proposals for the reform of unions, andpractical as well as conceptual advice on recruitment, licensing,redefining the teaching career, enhancing diversity, developingleadership, and expanding such innovations as networks and othersustained forms of teacher-to-teacher learning.
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LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.

GARY SYKES is professor of educational administration and teacher education at Michigan State University.

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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

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"This book teaches us that, if the improved learning we require forall students in a democracy is to be accomplished, both thepolicymakers and the professionals must take joint responsibilityto craft a new alliance.... Readers of this book will discover thatwithin its pages lies an impressive array of findings, analyses,interpretations, and proposals that can guide the needed efforts todesign such settings. Teaching as the Learning Profession is farmore than a superb book title. It is a mandate for the stakeholdersin whose hands lies the future of America's teachers, and throughthem, the future of America's students." --from the foreword by LeeS. Shulman, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancementof Teaching

"It's common knowledge--and common sense--that the quality ofteaching strongly affects student achievement. Teaching as theLearning Profession rightly advocates enhancing instructionalquality by providing teachers with meaningful professional learningopportunities that allow them to continually improve their practiceand enable their students to excel." --Sandra Feldman, president,American Federation of Teachers

"No education topic is more important than how to raise the qualityof teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes thecase for reshaping teacher preparation and professional developmentto enhance student learning." --Bob Chase, president, NationalEducation Association
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