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An exploration of teacher education programs around the world finds common focus in the use of core practices to better prepare teachers for the classroom.  In Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and Urban Fraefel bring together international voices in a global showcase of practice-based approaches to teacher education. This generous volume presents the work of teacher educators and researchers from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland, among others, highlighting various methods for teacher preparation and instruction rooted in core practices. The contributors describe real-world implementation of methods that give preservice and novice teachers opportunities to enact practices during professional training. Examples from classrooms around the world demonstrate how this approach allows student teachers to engage in problem solving and receive feedback, providing a foundation for adaptive expertise.  Grossman and Fraefel show how a growing global movement has embraced core practices to better prepare teachers for ambitious teaching. In a thoughtful overview of the sociocultural theory and pedagogy that grounds this shift, they discuss the relationship of this work to that of 20th-century Swiss psychologist Hans Aebli and follow its trajectory through the present and beyond to predictions of where the field will move in the future.  With this volume, teacher educators and researchers interested in teacher education and professional development will gain a critical cross-national perspective and fresh insight that can be applied to their own programs. Administrators will find ample inspiration for policy and program redesign. 

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"""Core Practices in Teacher Education will contribute significantly to the field of teacher education as it illuminates how a core practice approach is implemented in a global context. In doing so, the book challenges us to think beyond US teacher education and identify and learn how others are using core practices to reshape and redefine teacher education practices and pedagogy.""--Morva McDonald, vice president of leadership and governance at the National Association of Independent Schools ""Grossman and Fraefel offer clear and purposeful examples of teacher education program redesign efforts aimed at enhancing teacher education through a serious focus on practice. As they illustrate, core practices are designed to support student teachers learn how to analyze, enact, and better understand the complex nature of teaching. By situating core practices at the center of teacher education, they place learning to teach at the heart of student teachers' pedagogical development.""--John Loughran, Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University, Australia"

"""Grossman and Fraefel offer clear and purposeful examples of teacher education program redesign efforts aimed at enhancing teacher education through a serious focus on practice. As they illustrate, core practices are designed to support student teachers learn how to analyze, enact, and better understand the complex nature of teaching. By situating core practices at the center of teacher education, they place learning to teach at the heart of student teachers' pedagogical development.""--John Loughran, Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University, Australia ""Core Practices in Teacher Education will contribute significantly to the field of teacher education as it illuminates how a core practice approach is implemented in a global context. In doing so, the book challenges us to think beyond US teacher education and identify and learn how others are using core practices to reshape and redefine teacher education practices and pedagogy.""--Morva McDonald, vice president of leadership and governance at the National Association of Independent Schools"

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Pam Grossman is professor of education and former dean at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Urban Fraefel is professor emeritus of education at the University of Northwestern Switzerland. 

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