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Transforming Teacher Education in the United States

A Clinically-Based Developmental Approach

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In the United States, teacher education programs have been under increasing pressure to focus more on outputs such as their candidates’ effects on student performance on state, national, and international tests rather than on inputs such as content described in course syllabi or the number of hours of field experiences.

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Johnsen, S.K., Goree, K.K., Sulak, T.N. (2017). Transforming Teacher Education in the United States. In: Kimonen, E., Nevalainen, R. (eds) Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-917-1_1

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