Relay: 'The Future of Teacher Training'

"If you want to see the future of teacher training," Jonathan Schorr writes, "you could do worse than to visit Samantha Patterson's kindergarten classroom at North Star Academy Charter School of Newark."

Schorr describes three groups of students in Patterson's classroom. One works independently on computers. A second listens quietly while another teacher reads a story. And a third is practices vowel sounds during a "fast-moving, full-body experience" with "quick, joyful volleys" between the students and their teacher.

"Patterson may be emblematic of the coming change in teacher prep," Schorr continues. "In addition to her duties as a teacher, she’s a student at Relay Graduate School of Education, which has become the leading symbol of a burgeoning revolution in how America is learning to teach."

Read Schorr's full article (PDF) in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.