Background Research suggests that teachers' views of their students' capabilities matter
when attempting to accomplish instructional reform, particularly in settings serving …

Collaborative inquiry (CI) has emerged as a dominant structure for educator professional
learning in the twenty-first century. CI engages educators in collaboratively investigating …

2 redesigning america's community colleges tion efforts such as the US Department of
Education's College Navigator website, which allows students and parents to compare …

This article evaluates whether providing coaching between practice sessions in teacher
education courses leads to more rapid development of skills and changes in teachers' …

This study investigates pre-service teachers' capacities to attend to, analyze, and respond to
student thinking. Using a performance assessment of teacher competence, we compare two …

Current work to identify the core teaching practices that should be included in teacher
education curriculum is a part of a long-standing tradition of reform in American teacher …

Teacher education programs typically teach novices about one part of teaching at a time. We
might offer courses on different topics—cultural foundations, learning theory, or classroom …

Scientific explanation plays a central role in science education reform documents, including
the Benchmarks for Science Literacy, the National Science Education Standards, and the …

In recent years, work in practice-based teacher education has focused on identifying and
elaborating how teacher educators (TEs) use pedagogies of enactment to learn in and from …

We raise concerns about the current state of research and development in formative
assessment, specifically to argue that in its concentration on strategies for the teacher, the …