Book Spells Out ‘Core Curriculum’ for Teacher Training

Washington

Teacher education programs need to prepare their students to understand and support child development, include a study of language acquisition and how language is used, and give prospective teachers depth in a particular content area as well as a broad liberal arts foundation.

Those are among the recommendations made by a National Academy of Education committee that for the past two years has been working to define a “core curriculum” for teacher preparation.

Based at New York University in New York City, the academy is an organization of close to 150 researchers who focus on...