A Blueprint for Preparing Teachers: Producing the Best Educators for Our Children [Hardcover]

A Blueprint for Preparing Teachers provides a plan to produce high quality teachers who will remain in the profession and continue to grow throughout their careers. The plan includes three-components which must all be incorporated for a teacher education program to be successful: university curriculum and instruction that are state-of-the-art; strong collaboration among the university, school districts, and the community; and meaningful professional development. This book offers procedures to help facilitate the implementation of each of the three components.Marie Pagliaro is currently a professional development consultant. She was a full professor and Director of the Teacher Education Division at Dominican College, Chair of the Education Department at Marymount College, a supervisor of student teachers at Lehman College of the City University of New York, and Chair of the Science Department and teacher of chemistry, general science, and mathematics in the Yonkers Public Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Fordham University.

Embedded in a dynamic historical perspective of teacher education, Pagliaro provides the fundamental structures and systems teacher education programs need to be successful. This book is a helpful reminder of how much work has been done in teacher education, but also how much farther we need to go. Using these basic building blocks, programs can begin to reach higher levels of impact from which to innovate. Carole G. Basile, EdD, dean, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University; former dean, College of Education, University of Missouri St. Louis

It is refreshing to know that someone has recognized how the business community can contribute to teacher preparation. Following the blueprint in this book should produce teachers who will be better able to educate our youth in the 21st century skills they will need to become the business leaders of the future and keep our nation competitive lã