UM: Education

A report on NPR’s All Things Considered looks at the overhaul of the teacher training program at UM’s School of Education, called the Teacher Education Initiative. The piece quotes the school’s dean, Deborah Ball: “Image the difference between learning about child development, which is unquestionably helpful, and learning how to have a sensible interaction with a child, which permits you to know exactly what’s going wrong right now with that child’s reading, or why is this error occurring over and over again in math. That’s actually being able to do something with that knowledge.” [Source]