Teacher Training and Development
- LAST REVIEWED: 12 July 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 July 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0048
- LAST REVIEWED: 12 July 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 July 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0048
Introduction
Teacher training and development refer to the processes and practices through which teachers gain, deepen, and expand their professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions. These processes and practices are complex and occur both over the course of teachers’ careers and across multiple contexts, including universities, schools, and professional networks and associations. Though the research and practice of teacher training and development employ diverse disciplinary perspectives, they share a central concern with identifying both what teachers should know and be able to do to foster student learning, and which programs, practices, and policies best support teachers’ learning. While these are, in part, technical questions, how scholars and practitioners think about, enact, and study teacher training and development are shaped by a wide array of influences, including their diverse disciplinary perspectives, the models of “good” teaching they adhere to, their understanding of teachers’ work and teachers’ learning, and their beliefs about the goals and purposes of education. These influences are further situated within particular historical and political contexts. In particular, the goals and purposes we ascribe to teacher learning and development, the resources we devote to it, and the ways in which we organize and evaluate it are intimately tied to the shifting politics and policies of both educational and social reform movements. The citations included in this bibliography lead a user to works that examine the individual and organizational processes and practices of teacher training and development and how these are shaped by the institutional and political contexts in which they are situated. In addition to works that have significantly influenced the research and practice of teacher training and development, they include works that are breaking new ground and those that provide comprehensive examinations of key issues in the field.
General Overviews
The following works provide the reader with an introduction to the central ways in which teacher training and development have been conceptualized and studied. Feiman-Nemser 2001 delineates the continuum of teaching training and development, from pre-service teacher education to induction to professional development, and identifies the core learning tasks teachers encounter at each stage. Gage 1978 and Lanier and Little 1986 represent seminal statements of the two central paradigms that have undergirded the research and practice of teacher training and development: the training model and the learning model, respectively. While the 1980s witnessed a shift from the training model to the learning model, the former has persisted. Its influence can be seen in current educational accountability policies that emphasize teachers’ adoption of observable teaching behaviors whose effectiveness is measured by standardized test scores. Taken together, Gage 1978 and Lanier and Little 1986 help illuminate a core set of tensions that exist within the field. Extending the learning model, Putnam and Borko 2000 develops a “situative” perspective that highlights the influence of social and organizational contexts on teacher learning and development. Richardson 2001 and Cochran-Smith and Zeichner 2005 provide comprehensive overviews of current research and practice while offering recommendations for future agendas regarding both.
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn, and Kenneth Zeichner. 2005. Studying teacher education: The report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Important synthesis and assessments of existing research on teacher education. Identifies what is known about the relationship between teacher education, teaching, and student learning and identifies a research agenda for improving the knowledge base for teacher education.
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon. 2001. From preparation to practice: Designing a continuum to strengthen and sustain teaching. Teachers College Record 103.6: 1013–1055.
Widely cited article that identifies the central tasks, conventional arrangements, and promising programs and practices at each of the three stages of the professional learning continuum for teachers: pre-service education, induction, and professional development.
Feuer, Michael J., Robert E. Floden, Naomi Chudowsky, and Judie Ahn. 2013. Evaluation of teacher preparation programs: Purposes, methods, and policy options. Washington, DC: National Academy of Education.
Report of the National Academy of Education in the United States that examines key methodological and policy issues related to the evaluation of teacher preparation programs.
Gage, Nathaniel L. 1978. The scientific basis of the art of teaching. New York: Teachers College.
Influential statement of the training model of teacher development that emphasizes the mastery of specific observable teaching behaviors and competencies.
Lanier, Judith E., and Judith W. Little. 1986. Research on teacher education. In Handbook of research on teaching. 3d ed. Edited by M. C. Wittrock, 527–569. New York: Macmillan.
Seminal review of research on teacher education that marks the shift to a learning model of teacher education and development that emphasizes teachers’ knowledge, reflection, and decision making as they are shaped by individual, organizational, and institutional contexts.
Putnam, Ralph T., and Hilda Borko. 2000. What do new views of knowledge and thinking have to say about research on teacher learning? Educational Researcher 29.1: 4–15.
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X029001004
Seminal statement of the “situative” perspective on teacher learning and development, which asserts that both are situated in physical and social contexts, social in nature, and distributed across individuals, groups, and tools.
Richardson, Virginia, ed. 2001. Handbook of research on teaching. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
Compendium of comprehensive reviews of research on a wide range of issues related to teaching and teachers. Readers interested in teacher training and development will find the chapters on the knowledge base for teaching, teacher change, and policy of particular interest.
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- Academic Audit for Universities
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- Action Research in Education
- Adjuncts in Higher Education in the United States
- Administrator Preparation
- Adolescence
- Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Courses
- Advocacy and Activism in Early Childhood
- African American Racial Identity and Learning
- Alaska Native Education
- Alternative Certification Programs for Educators
- Alternative Schools
- American Indian Education
- Art Education
- Artificial Intelligence and Learning
- Assessing School Leader Effectiveness
- Assessment, Behavioral
- Assessment, Educational
- Assessment in Early Childhood Education
- Assistive Technology
- Augmented Reality in Education
- Beginning-Teacher Induction
- Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
- Blended Learning
- Bullying
- Case Study in Education Research
- Changing Professional and Academic Identities
- Character Education
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Beliefs about Intelligence
- Children's Rights in Early Childhood Education
- Citizenship Education
- Civic and Social Engagement of Higher Education
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- Classroom Management
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- Computer-Based Testing
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- Continuous Improvement and "High Leverage" Educational Pro...
- Counseling in Schools
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- Critical Race Theory
- Crossborder and Transnational Higher Education
- Cross-National Research on Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Sector Research on Continuous Learning and Improveme...
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- Culturally Responsive Leadership
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- Data-driven Decision Making in the United States
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- Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Pr...
- Development, Moral
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- Digital Divides
- Disabilities
- Distance Learning
- Distributed Leadership
- Doctoral Education and Training
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- Early Childhood Education and Development in Mexico
- Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Early Childhood Education in Australia
- Early Childhood Education in China
- Early Childhood Education in Europe
- Early Childhood Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Early Childhood Education in Sweden
- Early Childhood Education Pedagogy
- Early Childhood Education Policy
- Early Childhood Education, The Arts in
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- Early Childhood Science
- Early Childhood Teacher Education
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- Economics of Education
- Education For Children with Autism
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Education Leadership, Empirical Perspectives in
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- Education Reform and School Change
- Educational Statistics for Longitudinal Research
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- Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
- Environmental and Science Education: Overlaps and Issues
- Epistemic Beliefs
- Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educationa...
- Equity, Ethnicity, Diversity, and Excellence in Education
- Ethical Research with Young Children
- Ethics and Education
- Ethics of Teaching
- Ethnic Studies
- Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention
- Family and Community Partnerships in Education
- Family Day Care
- Federal Government Programs and Issues
- Feminization of Labor in Academia
- Finance, Education
- Financial Aid
- Formative Assessment
- Future-Focused Education
- Gender and Achievement
- Gender and Alternative Education
- Gifted Education
- Global Mindedness and Global Citizenship Education
- Global University Rankings
- Governance, Education
- Grounded Theory
- Growth of Effective Mental Health Services in Schools in t...
- Higher Education and Globalization
- Higher Education and the Developing World
- Higher Education Faculty Characteristics and Trends in the...
- Higher Education Finance
- Higher Education Governance
- Higher Education Graduate Outcomes and Destinations
- Higher Education in Africa
- Higher Education in China
- Higher Education in Latin America
- Higher Education in the United States, Historical Evolutio...
- Higher Education, International Issues in
- Higher Education Management
- Higher Education Policy
- Higher Education Research
- Higher Education Student Assessment
- High-stakes Testing
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- History of Education in the United States
- History of Technology Integration in Education
- Homeschooling
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- Inclusive Education
- Indigenous Education in a Global Context
- Indigenous Learning Environments
- Indigenous Students in Higher Education in the United Stat...
- Infant and Toddler Pedagogy
- Inservice Teacher Education
- Integrating Art across the Curriculum
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- International Perspectives on Academic Freedom
- Intersectionality and Education
- Knowledge Development in Early Childhood
- Leadership Development, Coaching and Feedback for
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- Leadership Training with an Emphasis on the United States
- Learning Analytics in Higher Education
- Learning Difficulties
- Learning, Lifelong
- Learning, Multimedia
- Learning Strategies
- Legal Matters and Education Law
- LGBT Youth in Schools
- Linguistic Diversity
- Linguistically Inclusive Pedagogy
- Literacy
- Literacy Development and Language Acquisition
- Literature Reviews
- Mathematics Identity
- Mathematics Instruction and Interventions for Students wit...
- Mathematics Teacher Education
- Measurement for Improvement in Education
- Measurement in Education in the United States
- Meta-Analysis and Research Synthesis in Education
- Methodological Approaches for Impact Evaluation in Educati...
- Methodologies for Conducting Education Research
- Mindfulness, Learning, and Education
- Mixed Methods Research
- Motivation
- Multiliteracies in Early Childhood Education
- Multiple Documents Literacy: Theory, Research, and Applica...
- Multivariate Research Methodology
- Museums, Education, and Curriculum
- Music Education
- Narrative Research in Education
- Native American Studies
- Note-Taking
- Numeracy Education
- One-to-One Technology in the K-12 Classroom
- Online Education
- Open Education
- Organizing for Continuous Improvement in Education
- Organizing Schools for the Inclusion of Students with Disa...
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- Pedagogical Leadership
- Pedagogy of Teacher Education, A
- Performance Objectives and Measurement
- Performance-based Research Assessment in Higher Education
- Performance-based Research Funding
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- Philosophy of Education
- Physical Education
- Play
- Podcasts in Education
- Policy
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- Politics of Education
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- Pre-Service Teacher Education
- Problem Solving
- Productivity and Higher Education
- Professional Development
- Professional Learning Communities
- Program Evaluation
- Programs and Services for Students with Emotional or Behav...
- Psychology Learning and Teaching
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- Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques
- Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Research Samp...
- Qualitative Research Design
- Quantitative Research Designs in Educational Research
- Race and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
- Reading Education
- Refugee and New Immigrant Learners
- Relational and Developmental Trauma and Schools
- Relational Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education
- Reliability in Educational Assessments
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- Researcher Development and Skills Training within the Cont...
- Research-Practice Partnerships in Education within the Uni...
- Response to Intervention
- Restorative Practices
- Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Impro...
- Scaling Up Research-based Educational Practices
- School Accreditation
- School Choice
- School Culture
- School District Budgeting and Financial Management in the ...
- School Improvement through Inclusive Education
- School Reform
- Schools, Private and Independent
- School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
- Science Education
- Secondary to Postsecondary Transition Issues
- Self-Regulated Learning
- Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices
- Service-Learning
- Severe Disabilities
- Single Salary Schedule
- Single-sex Education
- Single-Subject Research Design
- Social Context of Education
- Social Justice
- Social Network Analysis
- Social Pedagogy
- Social Science and Education Research
- Social Studies Education
- Sociology of Education
- Standards-Based Education
- Statistical Assumptions
- Student Access, Equity, and Diversity in Higher Education
- Student Assignment Policy
- Student Engagement in Tertiary Education
- Student Learning, Development, Engagement, and Motivation ...
- Student Participation
- Student Voice in Teacher Development
- Sustainability Education in Early Childhood Education
- Sustainability in Early Childhood Education
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Teacher Beliefs and Epistemologies
- Teacher Collaboration in School Improvement
- Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Effectiveness
- Teacher Preparation
- Teacher Training and Development
- Teacher Unions and Associations
- Teacher-Student Relationships
- Teaching Critical Thinking
- Technologies, Teaching, and Learning in Higher Education
- Technology Education in Early Childhood
- Technology, Educational
- Technology-based Assessment
- The Bologna Process
- The Regulation of Standards in Higher Education
- Theories of Educational Leadership
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- Tracking and Detracking
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- Transformative Learning
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- Vocational and Technical Education
- Wellness and Well-Being in Education
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Young Children and Spirituality
- Young Children's Learning Dispositions
- Young Children's Working Theories