Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

Comprised of contributions from distinguished education scholars, Teachers, Teaching, and Reform takes a critical look at evidence about systemic efforts to identify excellent teachers and promote excellent teaching practices. Organized to include diverse and often contrasting perspectives on the topic, this book provides insight into some of the most vexing historical issues affecting the policies that shape current reform initiatives focused on teachers, teaching, and educational outcomes. Educational scholars, policy makers, instructors, and graduate students will come away with a keen understanding of different perspectives about the assessment of teachers, teaching, and teacher education programs, as well as strategies for improving educational outcomes for students.

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Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

Comprised of contributions from distinguished education scholars, Teachers, Teaching, and Reform takes a critical look at evidence about systemic efforts to identify excellent teachers and promote excellent teaching practices. Organized to include diverse and often contrasting perspectives on the topic, this book provides insight into some of the most vexing historical issues affecting the policies that shape current reform initiatives focused on teachers, teaching, and educational outcomes. Educational scholars, policy makers, instructors, and graduate students will come away with a keen understanding of different perspectives about the assessment of teachers, teaching, and teacher education programs, as well as strategies for improving educational outcomes for students.

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Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes

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Comprised of contributions from distinguished education scholars, Teachers, Teaching, and Reform takes a critical look at evidence about systemic efforts to identify excellent teachers and promote excellent teaching practices. Organized to include diverse and often contrasting perspectives on the topic, this book provides insight into some of the most vexing historical issues affecting the policies that shape current reform initiatives focused on teachers, teaching, and educational outcomes. Educational scholars, policy makers, instructors, and graduate students will come away with a keen understanding of different perspectives about the assessment of teachers, teaching, and teacher education programs, as well as strategies for improving educational outcomes for students.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351737449
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/14/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 182
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Ralph P. Ferretti is a Professor of Education and Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware, USA. He is the past Director of the School of Education.

James Hiebert is Robert J. Barkley Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, USA, where he teaches in programs of mathematics teacher preparation and graduate studies.

Table of Contents

1 Improving Educational Outcomes: Contrasting Perspectives

Ralph P. Ferretti and James Hiebert

2 Promises and Pitfalls for Teacher Evaluation

Drew H. Gitomer

3 Evaluating Teachers and Teacher Preparation Programs

Robert Floden

4 Does VAM + MET = Improved Teaching?

James W. Stigler, James Hiebert, and Karen B. Givvin

5 Teacher-Student Interactions: Measurement, Impacts, Improvement, and Policy

Robert C. Pianta

6 Using Data to Inform Decisions Regarding Teacher Preparation

George H. Noell and Kristin A. Gansle

7 Designing Systems for Continuously Improving Instruction: The Case of Teacher Preparation Mathematics Courses

James Hiebert, Robert M. Wieman, and Dawn Berk

8 How to Reform Reform

Mary M. Kennedy

Conclusion: Improving Educational Outcomes: Reflections and Prospections

Ralph P. Ferretti and James Hiebert

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