Modeling Instructional Best Practices: Pedagogy of College of Education Professors

• Main Authors: Kathleen Taylor Campbell, Rayma Harchar, Thomas DeVaney, Deborah McCarthy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University 2009-01-01
• Series: School Leadership Review
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=slr

In light of increased accountability for K-12 student achievement, critics have questioned the quality of teachers and school principals as well as the university programs that prepare them for these roles (Lambert, 1996; Levine, 2005; Murphy, 1992). Regarding the preparation of teachers, critics have stated that education courses are vapid, impractical, segmented, and directionless (Glenn, 2000). Two national reports that have made recommendations for teacher redesign are noteworthy. The report of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, What matters most: Teaching for America’s future (Lambert, 1996), found that teacher preparation education is thin and fragmented and recommended that universities reinvent teacher preparation. The Glenn Commission's report, Before It's Too Late (2000), called for the identification of exemplary teacher preparation programs to be held up as models for other programs to emulate.