Transforming Teacher Education Reflections from the Field Tapa blanda - 2007

David Carroll is an assistant professor in the elementary education department at Western Washington University. He taught previously at Michigan State University (MSU), where he served initially as manager of the professional development school network and as university coordinator for professional development school work at a large urban middle school in Lansing. With the beginning of Team One in 1993, Carroll became program coordinator, and he later also worked as a university liaison at one urban elementary school. While at MSU, Carroll also earned his Ph.D. Before that he served as director of the teacher education program at Prospect Center in Bennington, Vermont and conducted summer institutes and professional development consultations. He began his career in education as an elementary teacher for the School District of Philadelphia. Helen Featherstone is associate professor of teacher education at Michigan State University, where her primary research and instructional interests are in teaching prospective elementary school teachers intellectually ambitious approaches to math instruction and in helping experienced elementary teachers to think together about math and math teaching. She began her career in the Boston Public School District and since then has taught at Harvard University and at Wellesley College, as well as at MSU. Featherstone founded the Harvard Education Letter, a publication that synthesizes research on education for a broad audience. She is the author of A Difference in the Family: Life With a Disabled Child (1980) and is currently working on a book about changes in U.S. kindergartens. Joseph Featherstone is a professor of teacher education at MSU. He has taught at Harvard University and served for many years as an editor of the New Republic. He was the principal of the Commonwealth School in Boston. He was a faculty coleader of Team One, in which he had special responsibility for overseeing TE-301, the course that introduced students to child study. He was a coauthor of the influential Holmes Group report, Tomorrow's Schools (1990), and is the author of many books and articles, including most recently Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education (2003). He is also a poet, author of Brace's Cove (2000). Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University. She began her career as a high school English teacher in Chicago. She taught at the University of Chicago and then at Michigan State University, where she spent twenty years as a faculty member in the College of Education. At MSU, she served as faculty coleader of Team 1 and as a senior researcher at the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. An early student of teacher learning, she has written extensively about mentoring, new teacher induction, teacher centers, and the curriculum and pedagogy of teacher education. At Brandeis, she combines her expertise in teacher education with her deep interest in Jewish education. Dirck Roosevelt (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is associate professor and director of the master of arts in teaching program at Brandeis University. He taught at the elementary level, at the Prospect school--where he also was principal, and in public schools--for many years. Since 1993 he has been involved in teaching, design, and study of teacher education at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and, currently, Brandeis University. His present research focuses on the dimensions of learning to teach: valuing children, learning well from experience and constructing intellectual and moral authority. His underlying concern is making education fit for democracy. He has published in Theory into Practice, Curriculum Inquiry, and the National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook.