In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education presents Pam Grossman and colleagues’ practice-oriented approach to teacher education. The book focuses on developing core teaching skills in beginning teachers by supporting them in competently carrying out essential teaching practices, such as leading classroom discussions, eliciting students’ thinking, and maintaining classroom routines.
Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education offers concrete pedagogical strategies for teacher educators to convey these core skills. This includes using representations of practice to make skills visible and approximations of practice so beginning teachers can practice. Vignettes illustrate how these methods are integrated into different educational programs.
The book is based on research from a consortium of thirteen universities and supports a broad education field in strengthening professional skills both within and beyond formal programs. In doing so, it promotes the sustainable development of core teaching skills for beginning teachers.