Teacher Learning in Small-Group Settings: Teacher Education Yearbook XVII

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The international collection of essays contained in this volume offer a comprehensive look at how small groups are being employed in the field of education today and the purposes for which they are being used. Where teaching is concerned, readers of this volume come to know how teachers experience professional development in book clubs, Critical Friends Groups, and teacher research groups and how action research has been used by teachers in a particular curriculum reform project. Where teacher education is concerned, readers are afforded an insider view of what is happening in various cohorts and other small group configurations throughout the nation and the world, particularly with respect to diversity. Finally, readers catch a glimpse of what is occurring in higher education and how professors learn to be teacher educators, contributing members of the academy, and collaborative colleagues in their efforts to support and enhance student learning along the educational continuum.

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Cheryl J. Craig is a Professor in the College of Education, University of Houston, where she is the Coordinator of the Teaching and Teacher Education Program Area and Director of Elementary Education. Her research, centered on what teachers come to know in context, appears in the field's most esteemed journals and handbooks.

Louise Deretchin is the former Director of Higher Education for The Houston A+ Challenge and former Director of the Medical Informatics Education Center at Baylor College of Medicine. She is founding member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Houston P-16+ Council and is currently an education consultant.