Jennifer A Whitcomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1605072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Whitcomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitcomb |
| SIGNATURE | WHITCOMB J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning and Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Preparation
Learning to teach is cognitively and emotionally challenging. The review considers how research illuminates our understanding of what new teachers should know and how they learn to teach, informs key dilemmas of initial teacher preparation, and guides teacher educator's pedagogy and the design of robust initial teacher preparation experiences. It traces the evolution of three frameworks guiding inquiry into learning to teach—behaviorist, construc…
Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Education
This article considers the analyses and recommendations presented in Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) , especially the chapters addressing teachers and teacher education (chap. 6) and instructional practices (chap. 7). The authors highlight critical recommendations; identify potential gaps in the specification of topics and review of research; and suggest ways to develop a coherent, syste…
Why Teach
Apples and Fishes
In 2000, the adoption of new standards by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) unleashed a feisty debate on the role of in teacher preparation. With the ratification of the 2000 Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education (NCATE, 2002), NCATE identified the development of professional as an explicit obligation of teacher educators. (1) NCATE included expectations r…
Genres of Empirical Research in Teacher Education
Is empirical research on teacher really so bad? Critics decry its inconsistent quality and inability to respond convincingly to some of the field's most vexing problems. At the same time, teacher is a relatively new field of study. Those who have traced its development observe that rigorous, large-scale research on teacher is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to conduct; thus, some of the theoretical and methodological advances seen in mor…
A Conversation of Many Voices
It's on the horizon again, another looming crisis in teacher education. These predicaments don't seem to go away or get resolved. A state of perpetual professional calamity seems to threaten, characterize, and inform the teacher education endeavor. Whether the decade is the 1930s with Teachers College Dean William Russell's (1936) call for a new charter for teacher education, the 1960s with Koerner's (1963) and Conant's (1963) respective critique…
Genres of Empirical Research in Teacher Education
Is empirical research on teacher really so bad? Critics decry its inconsistent quality and inability to respond convincingly to some of the field's most vexing problems. At the same time, teacher is a relatively new field of study. Those who have traced its development observe that rigorous, large-scale research on teacher is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to conduct; thus, some of the theoretical and methodological advances seen in mor…
Apples and Fishes
In 2000, the adoption of new standards by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) unleashed a feisty debate on the role of in teacher preparation. With the ratification of the 2000 Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education (NCATE, 2002), NCATE identified the development of professional as an explicit obligation of teacher educators. (1) NCATE included expectations r…
Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Education
This article considers the analyses and recommendations presented in Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) , especially the chapters addressing teachers and teacher education (chap. 6) and instructional practices (chap. 7). The authors highlight critical recommendations; identify potential gaps in the specification of topics and review of research; and suggest ways to develop a coherent, syste…
A Conversation of Many Voices
It's on the horizon again, another looming crisis in teacher education. These predicaments don't seem to go away or get resolved. A state of perpetual professional calamity seems to threaten, characterize, and inform the teacher education endeavor. Whether the decade is the 1930s with Teachers College Dean William Russell's (1936) call for a new charter for teacher education, the 1960s with Koerner's (1963) and Conant's (1963) respective critique…
Why Teach
A Conversation of Many Voices
It's on the horizon again, another looming crisis in teacher education. These predicaments don't seem to go away or get resolved. A state of perpetual professional calamity seems to threaten, characterize, and inform the teacher education endeavor. Whether the decade is the 1930s with Teachers College Dean William Russell's (1936) call for a new charter for teacher education, the 1960s with Koerner's (1963) and Conant's (1963) respective critique…
Apples and Fishes
In 2000, the adoption of new standards by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) unleashed a feisty debate on the role of in teacher preparation. With the ratification of the 2000 Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education (NCATE, 2002), NCATE identified the development of professional as an explicit obligation of teacher educators. (1) NCATE included expectations r…
Genres of Empirical Research in Teacher Education
Is empirical research on teacher really so bad? Critics decry its inconsistent quality and inability to respond convincingly to some of the field's most vexing problems. At the same time, teacher is a relatively new field of study. Those who have traced its development observe that rigorous, large-scale research on teacher is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to conduct; thus, some of the theoretical and methodological advances seen in mor…
Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Education
This article considers the analyses and recommendations presented in Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) , especially the chapters addressing teachers and teacher education (chap. 6) and instructional practices (chap. 7). The authors highlight critical recommendations; identify potential gaps in the specification of topics and review of research; and suggest ways to develop a coherent, syste…
Why Teach
Learning and Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Preparation
Learning to teach is cognitively and emotionally challenging. The review considers how research illuminates our understanding of what new teachers should know and how they learn to teach, informs key dilemmas of initial teacher preparation, and guides teacher educator's pedagogy and the design of robust initial teacher preparation experiences. It traces the evolution of three frameworks guiding inquiry into learning to teach—behaviorist, construc…
Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Teacher education (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Advisory committee (1 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (1 works)