ED399220 SP036664
Title: Tomorrow's Schools of Education: A Report of the Holmes Group.
Author Affiliation: Holmes Group, Inc., East Lansing, MI.(BBB24314)
Pages: 113
Publication Date: 1995
Notes: Earlier related reports by the Holmes Group include "Tomorrow's
Teachers: A Report of the Holmes Group" (ED 270 454) and "Tomorrow's
Schools: Principles for the Design of the Professional Development
School" (ED 328 533).
Sponsoring Agency: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. (BBB00165)@DeWitt
Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. (BBB12599)
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC05 Plus Postage.
Availability: The Holmes Group, 201 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI
48824-1034 ($14 prepaid; boxed set of the three Holmes reports $36
prepaid).
Language: English
Document Type: Opinion papers (120)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Michigan
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1997
This report
contains nine chapters: "A New Beginning"; "The Heart
of the Matter: Three Kinds of Development"; "Special Knowledge
for Educators"; "Participating in Policy Development";
"Commitment to Diversity"; "Human Resources: Making
People Matter"; "The Core of Learning: What All Educators
Must Know"; "The Professional Development School: Integral
to Tomorrow's School of Education"; and "New Commitments
and New Kinds of Accountability for the TSE." To correct the
problem of uneven quality in the education and screening of educators
for U.S. schools, the report proposes an altered mission for schools
of education. Knowledge development, professional development, and
policy development lie at the heart of the mission. To fulfill this
mission, the 250 Holmes Group member institutions are challenged
to raise their quality standards and make important changes in curriculum,
faculty, location of work, and student body. Among the challenges
are the following: the education school's curriculum should focus
on the learning needs of the young and development of educators
at various stages of their careers; university faculties should
include teachers, practitioners, and other individuals who are at
home working in public schools; programs that prepare school personnel
and teacher educators need to actively recruit, retain, and graduate
a more ethnically diverse student body; faculty and students in
schools of education should work predominantly in professional development
schools rather than on college campuses; education schools should
join together to form an interconnecting set of networks at local,
state, regional, and national levels to ensure better work and accountability.
(IAH)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation; Educational Change; *Educational
Improvement; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development;
Higher Education; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Partnerships in Education;
Position Papers; *Professional Development Schools; *Schools of
Education; *Teacher Education; *Teacher Education Curriculum; Teacher
Educators
Identifiers: Diversity (Faculty); Diversity (Student); *Holmes Group
