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What Does Today's Teacher Need To Know and To Do?.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Clegg, Ambrose A. Ochoa, Anna S. |
| Copyright Year | 1970 |
| Abstract | E of the more important changes occurring in teacher education to day is the development of field-centered pro grams; that is, programs that conduct almost all of their activities on site, using actual school classrooms as laboratories for learn ing. Such field centers are intended to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to avoid the all-too-common situation in which college methods courses are taught as lecture courses and are separated by a semester or more in time from any actual need to use the ideas developed there in a student teaching situation. The concept of using actual school class rooms as laboratories for learning how to teach is not new. More than half a century ago John Dewey ' spelled out the idea in an essay, "The Relation of Theory to Practice in Education," proposing this idea as an alterna tive to the then current Normal school pro grams which he compared to apprenticeship training. While laboratory or demonstration schools were quite common in the subsequent decades, they often became isolated physically and intellectually from the realities of the public school environment. Typically, class rooms in local school systems have been used largely for observation and practice teaching; |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_197003_clegg.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
