CONTEMPLATING TEACHING'S CONFLICTS AND PARADOXES

摘要

Pitt has invited us to engage in a professional conversation about learning to teach at a time when dialogue of this sort is sorely needed. This need was recently underscored by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, when he focused on the failures of our teacher preparation efforts. Speaking at Teachers College at Columbia University on October 22, 2009, Duncan noted that only a few teacher education programs are engaged in remarkable efforts and thatrnby almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the twenty-first century classroom.