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In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies “core practices” of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion, eliciting student thinking, and maintaining classroom norms. The contributors argue that teacher education needs to do more to help teachers master these professional skills, rather than simply emphasizing content knowledge. Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education outlines a series of pedagogies that teacher educators can use to help preservice students develop these teaching skills. Pedagogies include representations of practice (ways to show what this skill looks like and break it down into its component parts) and approximations of practice (the ways preservice teachers can try these skills out as they learn). Vignettes throughout the book illustrate how core practices can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum. The book draws on the work of a consortium of teacher educators from thirteen universities devoted to describing and enacting pedagogies to help novice teachers develop these core practices in support of ambitious and equitable instruction. Their aim is to support teacher educator learning across institutions, content domains, and grade levels. The book also addresses efforts to support teacher learning outside formal teacher education programs.

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As the landscape of schooling, teacher education, educational research, and educational policy continue to shift, work such as this--emerging, responsive, and, most of all, deeply thoughtful--is critical. --Courtney Rath, Teachers College Record

""Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, edited by Pam Grossman, is a valuable contribution to the discussion of core teaching practices and the role that they can play in the formation of new teachers."" --Education Review ""As the landscape of schooling, teacher education, educational research, and educational policy continue to shift, work such as this--emerging, responsive, and, most of all, deeply thoughtful--is critical."" --Courtney Rath, Teachers College Record

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Pam Grossman is the dean of the Graduate School of Education and the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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