Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs

By Linda Darling-Hammond

Book Overview

Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787972738
• ISBN13: 9780787972738
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An Exemplary Text

Darling=Hammond is the premier scholar in education especially on discussions of teachers in the classrooms. Powerful Teacher Education is a book for any teacher who needs a better understanding of the subtle differences in learning styles of urban students. Her work has been successfully utilized by colleges and universities of education throughout the U.S. Finally, as a doctoral student in education, my dissertaion is richer through the use of her references. A must read for all who are serious about edcation.

Powerful Teacher Education

This is a great book to get information in making your teaching career insightful. Darling-Hammond does a great job in researching schools that are actually producing "teachers as they should be." The information in this book can be weighted amongst the other great education researchers.