We should be preparing educators for the schools we need rather than the schools we have.
There have been extensive, prolonged national discussions about moving teacher education and our schools out of the industrial age and into the knowledge age. Over 100 key education stakeholders met in December 2009 with the understanding that
now is the time to segue from talk to action.
This diverse group spent two intensive days progressing through a series of carefully crafted large- and small-group workshops leading to the development of and consensus around a new vision for teacher education in the digital age. This vision, along with a series of subsequent meetings, led to a set of policy recommendations at the institutional, state, and national levels that would facilitate the redefinition of educator preparation in our rapidly changing technology- and knowledge-based global society. Representatives of this group presented their recommendations to Congress in the summer of 2010 and the full report is available to the public now.
Summit Report—Redefining Teacher Education for Digital Age Learners
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