{"id":179,"date":"2008-08-12T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-08-12T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:37:08","slug":"coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I get the regular updates from TCR in my inbox and this morning there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcrecord.org\/PrintContent.asp?ContentID=12555\">thoughtful essay<\/a> addressing program coherence within teacher education.   The structural elements preventing this are legion: faculty vs. adjuncts, program designs with multiple vestigial tails, theory vs. practice, foundations vs. methods&#8230; there are many reasons why teacher ed programs splinter.  <\/p>\n<p>I hope someday to be involved in a high school where teacher education takes place inside the building.  Coherence would be provided by the daily rhythm of the building &#8212; what do you have to do to succeed as a teacher?  How does your practice need to evolve in order to meet the needs of your students?  How do the readings you&#8217;re doing with fellow faculty members and students help inform your practice?  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be an authentic kind of coherence, where students would see an immediate link between their coursework and their teaching.   <\/p>\n<p>Keep dreaming, I guess.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I get the regular updates from TCR in my inbox and this morning there was a thoughtful essay addressing program coherence within teacher education. The structural elements preventing this are legion: faculty vs. adjuncts, program designs with multiple vestigial tails, theory vs. practice, foundations vs. methods&#8230; there are many reasons why teacher ed programs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coherence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}