This article wasnt as informative as I thought it would be. It was created through contributions from various members of the wikipedia site, and quotations from various books and other printed material. The main idea that I took away from the article was that teachers are constantly improving and changing their methods. The main idea behind teachers ed. seems to be about shaping every generation of educators to match their methods with the times.
Additionally, the other prominant idea I found in this article was that teaching is a highly stressful profession. According to the article, teaching is so stressful that it is common for teachers to give up teaching even after finishing their basic training.
"Many teachers experience their first years in the profession as stressful. The proportion of teachers who either do not enter the profession after completing initial training, or who leave the profession after their first teaching post, is high."
"Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education." Stanford University School of Education. 02 Jan 2010. Stanford University, Web. 23 Feb 2010. http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/programs-degrees/cte.html.
This was not really an article, but more of a course description for a Curriculum Studies course at Stanford University. This actually proved to be quite informative, as it discusses the goals of teachers education courses. The idea behind teachers ed. seems to be that in order to teach effectively you need to be able to learn to work with students instead of instructing them from a far. I think that a teacher is more effective if they can create a more casual environment in which to learn.
In my experiences I have always learned better and been more enthusiastic about a class when the teacher is trying to get the students to understand the topic, and not just learn it and move on. The article also talks about the use of grading as a way to shape how students learn. A key quote that I pulled out from the was;
"schools are most likely to improve when those engaged in their improvement recognize the highly interactive nature of school processes"
"Teacher Education Handbook." Education @ Davidson. 10 Aug 2009. Davidson College, Web. 23 Feb 2010. http://www1.davidson.edu/academic/education/tehandbook.html.
This third and final source I looked at, is the handbook for teacher education at Davidson College. The entire document is quite long, so I decided to focus on a few key pages. The most interesting thing to me, was this diagram I found labeled as "The Characteristics of a 'Future-Ready Educator'". The diagram is pentagonal and on each one of its five sides, is a characteristic of a "Future-Ready Educator". The characteristics are Leadership, Diversity, Content Knowledge, Facilitation, and Reflection.
Each of these describes a way in which teachers are supposed to act as role models in the classroom, promoting certain things and denouncing others. These five characteristics are supposed to be the pillars of quality teaching. As far as I can see, the goals for the Stanford University course on teachers ed. are very closely related to the five concepts in this handbook.
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