Seventh Article in the Series, The Artistry of Teaching Is Inquiry teaching the Magnum Principium of Teaching? If it is, what is it and how does it help us understand teaching, especially if we want to explore artistry in teaching. In my view inquiry is the sin qua...
This article is the Fourth in a series on The Artistry of Teaching. In 1896, the laboratory school of the University of Chicago opened its doors under the directorship of John Dewey (Fishman and McCarthy 1998). Dewey’s idea was to create an environment for social...
What's the Formula for Designing Rigorous Standards for Teacher Preparation? Read on to find out. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) published recommendations for Accreditation Standards and Evidence: Aspirations for Educator Preparation....
In the last four posts, I have written articles that call out the National Council on Teacher Quality on the basis of their built-in bias against teacher preparation institutions, and their confrontational style of what they call research. In the last post I used...
In this post I am going to look at the question Is the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on Teacher Prep Junk Science? In my last post, I suggested that the NCTQ report on teacher preparation is an example of junk science. Matthew Weinstein,...
NCTQ Report on Teacher Prep: the Devil is in the Detail. I decided to read the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on Teacher Prep to try to learn what the NCTQ had to say about teacher prep in the U.S. Last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality...
