Bror's Blog

“Practice-based” teacher education is really learning-based education

An interesting article in EdWeek last month about new methods for teacher preparation caught my eye.  It described an approach focused on giving teachers a specific repertoire of competencies through structured training and practice before they’re let loose on classrooms.  What’s reassuring (and maybe puzzling this didn’t happen earlier) is how close this new approach to training teachers is to what research says works best for learning.

Two sessions will explore: Why so little learning science?

In the next few weeks there will be two different sessions (full disclosure: I’m a panelist on both) talking about how education can benefit from more learning science, one at the ASU GSV meeting in Scottsdale Arizona, and the other at the huge education research conference, AERA.  The audiences are the right ones to also give insight into why that hasn’t happened yet.