The Core Practice Consortium brings together teacher educators from across institutions, disciplines, and theoretical perspectives to grapple with questions about how better to prepare novice teachers. The group's driving questions combine attention to practices of student-centered teaching, teacher education pedagogies to support novice learning, and the broader structures and contexts in which specific teaching practices are embedded. Practice, in the group's view, is never decontextualized from concerns for students' experiences in schools and the impact teachers can have in transforming the structures that constrain and shape futures for children and youth... Since 2012, teacher educators in the consortium have met as a whole group and in subject matter-specific groups to select and define the teaching and teacher education practices that have become our starting points in learning together. The consortium's work creates a space for focused ongoing learning through teacher..
Also known as: Core Practice Consortium