Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century
Author: Wioleta Danilewicz
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2019-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3847412574

This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable and fresh insights from research studies and examples of best practices from Europe and all over the world. The authors deal with the strengths and limitations of different models, strategies, approaches and policies related to teacher education and professional development in and for changing times (digitization, multiculturalism, pressure to perform).

Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century

Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Alicia R. Crowe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319229397

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century. It is divided into six sections where authors reconsider: 1) purposes, 2) course curricula, 3) collaboration with on-campus partners, 4) field experiences, 5) community connections, and 6) research and the political nature of social studies teacher education. The chapters within each section provide critical insights for social studies researchers, teacher educators, and teacher education programs. Whether readers begin to question what are we teaching social studies teachers for, who should we collaborate with to advance teacher learning, or how should we engage in the politics of teacher education, this volume leads us to consider what ideas, structures, and connections are most worthwhile for social studies teacher education in the twenty-first century to pursue.

Rethinking School-University Partnerships

Rethinking School-University Partnerships
Author: Prentice T. Chandler
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648025285

Rethinking School-University Partnerships: A New Way Forward provides educational leaders in K-12 schools and colleges of education with insight, advice, and direction into the task of creating partnerships. In current times, colleges of education and local school districts need each other like never before. School districts struggle with pipeline, recruitment, and retention issues. Colleges of education face declining enrollment and a shifting educational landscape that fundamentally changes the way that teachers are trained and what local school districts expect their teachers to be able to do. It is with these overlapping constraints and converging interests that partnerships emerge as a foundational strategy for strengthening the education of our teachers. With nearly 80 contributors from 16 states (and Jamaica) representing 39 educational institutions, the partnerships described in this book are different from the ways in which colleges of education and school districts have traditionally worked with one another. In the past, these loose relationships centered primarily on student teaching and/or field experience placements. In this arrangement, the relationship was directed towards ensuring that the local schools were amenable to hosting students from the college of education so that the student/candidate could complete the requirements to earn a teaching license. In our view, this paradigm needs to be enlarged and shifted.

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills
Author: James A. Bellanca
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1935542370

This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.

Learning for the Future

Learning for the Future
Author: Gabriel Rshaid
Publisher: Lead and Learn Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781935588108

The 21st century poses a fascinating, yet daunting challenge for educators: how to harness the potential of the infinite abundance brought forth by the Internet. Today's educators are the first generation in history to have access to all accumulated human knowledge. They are now facing a completely new educational paradigm with tools, strategies, and structures that have long been outdated. Schools need to reinvent themselves to develop a pedagogy and related curriculum for the 21st century. Learning for the Future: Rethinking Schools for the 21st Century explores the main drivers and principles for developing schools in the Internet age. It provides insight, pointers, and examples that allow readers to start the process of rethinking teaching strategies and helping students learn new skills needed to become lifelong learners in the knowledge era.

Rethinking Schools and Renewing Energy for Learning

Rethinking Schools and Renewing Energy for Learning
Author: Kris Van den Branden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 135104429X

Rethinking Schools and Renewing Energy for Learning presents a comprehensive view on the major challenges educators face in the 21st century, and the ways in which schools can make a difference. It describes key principles that can serve as guidelines for tackling those challenges in an effective and manageable way, looking both at what children should learn, and what they want to learn. Drawing on research, policy-related literature, and a wide range of practice-based examples, the book addresses various topics, such as goals, pedagogy, assessment, equity, policy, and the role of technology in learning. The book suggests that schools can be as rewarding and fulfilling as they have been in the past and gives examples of how this can be accomplished. Rethinking Schools and Renewing Energy for Learning will be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students, teacher educators, and scholars in the field of education, specifically interested in primary education, secondary education, teacher education, and education policy.

Rethinking Columbus

Rethinking Columbus
Author: Bill Bigelow
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 094296120X

Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State

Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State
Author: Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000214184

The relationship between teacher education and internationalization is often regarded as one that has just begun, sparked by globalization and its knowledge economy. This book questions such an assumption by arguing that although contemporary demands on teacher education have intensified the need for internationalization, teacher education and internationalization have a deep and complex relationship, which is context dependent and has developed differently over time. This book urges its readers to question and rethink overly nationalistic approaches to teacher education. It shows how the internationalization of teacher education could be used as a strategic tool to support sustainable educational development and meet labor market demands for twenty-first century competencies. It puts the spotlight on the imperatives for internationalizing teacher education and its present forms, and considers this current phenomenon in the context of Singapore. This nation state has a history of internationalization, albeit with differing rationales, dimensions and strategies. Internationalization has been a key driver of the Singapore education system’s sustained growth, from its humble beginnings to its present state as one of the best performing education systems in the world. This book will be of great interest to policy makers, academics, researchers and graduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, teacher education, and South East Asian studies.

The New Teacher Book

The New Teacher Book
Author: Terry Burant
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0942961471

Teaching is a lifelong challenge, but the first few years in the classroom are typically a teacher's hardest. This expanded collection of writings and reflections offers practical guidance on how to navigate the school system, form rewarding relationships with colleagues, and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.