Educating Teachers Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2. INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
3. THE CONTINUUM OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND TECHNOLOGY: PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
4. THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF WELL-PREPARED TEACHERS FOR STUDENT LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT
5. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE PROFESSION AND THE DISCIPLINES
6. TEACHER EDUCATION AS A PROFESSIONAL CONTINUUM
7. A VISION FOR IMPROVING TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION
8. RECOMMENDATIONS

Preface to Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology

In 1998, the Nationwide Analysis Council (NRC) established the Committee on Science and Mathematics Instructor Preparation (CSMTP) and charged it with figuring out important points in current practices and insurance policies for Ok-12 instructor preparation in science and arithmetic.

In its Assertion of Job, the NRC’s Governing Board additionally requested the committee to establish suggestions from skilled organizations concerning instructor preparation and the standard of the Ok-12 instructing of science and arithmetic and to look at related analysis.

The committee’s report was to synthesize important points, suggestions, and related analysis. In finishing up its obligations,

the committee explored practices and insurance policies in Ok-12 instructor schooling basically—for each potential and at present working towards academics—then targeted on points involving the instructing of science, arithmetic, and know-how.

Members examined the related literature and present requires reform of Ok-16 science and arithmetic schooling in addition to extra common rules of efficient instructor schooling that may be derived from evaluation of precise classroom follow.

Analysis on what’s at present identified about efficient instructor preparation and skilled improvement and the committee’s reflections on the compelling proof for instructor schooling to develop into a career-long continuum lie on the basis of the committee’s dialogue, conclusions, and subsequent imaginative and prescient and suggestions.

In reflecting on the committee’s findings, members developed six rules to border their conclusions concerning the want for modifications within the predominant methods Ok-12 academics of science, arithmetic, and know-how are at present ready and professionally supported.

The report then describes how instructor preparation may be redesigned in mild of analysis and new data about how academics study the content material, the artwork, and the craft of their career.

The report additionally examines and supplies examples of exemplary and promising present practices for enhancing instructor schooling,

Together with the institution of shut native or regional partnerships between college districts and instructor educators, scientists, and mathematicians in establishments of larger schooling.

As they exist on a small scale at this time, these partnerships are dedicated to enhancing pupil studying by way of enhancing the schooling and skilled assist of academics.

After exploring what is thought concerning the effectiveness of such collaborative approaches, the committee calls in its imaginative and prescient and particular suggestions for a elementary rethinking and restructuring of the ways in which the Ok-12 and larger schooling communities work towards enhancing instructor schooling, from the preliminary preparation by way of life-long skilled improvement.

To help motion on these rules, the committee calls in its suggestions for Ok-12 faculties and districts and the upper schooling neighborhood—with assist and help from the broader neighborhood—to have interaction in collaborative partnerships.

In these partnerships, college districts and their larger schooling companions collectively would promote high-quality instructor schooling, together with sharing accountability for instructor preparation and on-going skilled improvement for the Ok-12 companion faculties’ instructor.

Such partnerships would require a elementary rethinking of the at present disparate phases of instructor schooling and, subsequently,

A elementary restructuring of present organizational and monetary relationships between the Ok-12 and larger schooling communities in science, arithmetic, engineering, and know-how (SME&T).

Committee members readily acknowledge that this is not going to be a simple, simply completed, or cheap course of. In these new partnerships, accountability for preparatory pupil instructing experiences can be vested primarily at school district companions.

In flip, accountability for ongoing skilled improvement would fall primarily inside the purview of the upper schooling companions.

These modifications would require an incredible shift within the construction, allocation of assist sources, and relationships between the Ok-12 and larger schooling communities. And the end result will probably be nothing lower than the basic revamping of instructing as a career.

The report earlier than you addresses a broad viewers as a result of it’s evident from the analysis that anybody who’s answerable for any facet of instructor preparation in science, arithmetic, and know-how schooling can not work in isolation if they’re to assist enhance instructor schooling.

All skilled stakeholders in instructor schooling are addressed. They embrace academics of science, arithmetic,

And know-how, these in policy-making establishments, accrediting businesses, and skilled societies, in addition to scientists, mathematicians, educators, and directors inside and exterior of academe.

The committee is assured that the report will show helpful to the various devoted people who find themselves working to enhance the standard of the schooling of academics of Ok-12 science, arithmetic, and know-how.

The report additionally ought to assist improve the numbers of academics who’re instructing in ways in which permit their college students to know and recognize science, arithmetic, and know-how and the relevance of these disciplines to just about each facet of our lives within the new millennium.

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