Rethinking Teacher Education: Teacher Education in the Knowldege Age

Richard Smith and David Lynch   2010

Words of Wisdom: “ Compared to all developments in space travel, genetics, the Internet, communications and medical science, to name but a few, the practice of teaching seems to have fossilised. pg 8

Embedded formative assessment

Dylan Wiliam 2011

Words of Wisdom: “Improving educational outcomes is a vital economic necessity, and the only way that this can be achieved is by increasing the quality of the teaching force. Identifying the least effective teachers and deselecting them has a role to play, as does trying to increase the quality of those entering the profession, but as the data and the research studies...have shown, the effects of these measures will be small and to raise student achievement, the benefits will be too small and will arrive too late...Our future economic prosperity, therefore, depends on investing in those teachers already working in our schools.” pg 26

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