Who Bash Teacher Education. Teaching abstract concepts before teachers have a deep understanding of the contexts of instruction makes no sense. Requiring several teaching-methods courses takes time away from teachers getting more profound understandings of content area subject matter. Teacher educators critique existing practice so much that they make novice teachers think that almost all experienced teachers are inadequate to perform the tasks of teaching. Teaching-methods courses are Micky Mouse courses, requiring no great mental powers to complete.
Teacher education has no accountability.
Colleges of education never measure what their students know and can do after they leave the program. Teachers College Press. Subject Matter Knowledge and the Teaching of U.S. History. In other words, the students had much or little background knowledge and context for the subject of the text. The text contained several anomalies.