The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs.

The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs, including improved strategies for selection into the program; key ingredients for pre-service course work; courses that emphasis skill development in critical areas of teaching practice and more effective evaluation of student teaching that emphasizes professional development.

Preface: The harpsichord theory of learning to teach

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What’s wrong with teacher education?

Chapter 1: Where do we start?

Chapter 2: Connecting means with ends

Chapter 3: To Know, to understand, and to know how: a theoretical framework

Chapter 4: Some Radical Ideas

Part II: Developing Competence

Chapter 5: Introduction to Part II

Chapter 6: Developing Competence: Kids: Learning to observe, diagnose and deal with individual behavior

Chapter 7: Developing Competence: Teacher-Student Interactions

Chapter 8: Developing Competence: The teacher as curriculum maker

Chapter 9: Developing Competence: Student teaching

Chapter 10: In retrospect

Appendix

Bibliography