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Teacher Training, Development, and Decision Making: A Model of Teaching and Related Strategies for Language Teacher Education
Author(s) -
FREEMAN DONALD
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3587506
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , teacher education , psychology , mathematics education , language teacher , pedagogy , language education , physics , meteorology
Language teacher education has become fragmented; too often, its efforts focus on ancillary areas such as applied linguistics, methodology, or language acquisition while overlooking the core—teaching itself. Emphasis on these areas, although it may create a pedagogical foundation for the teacher‐in‐preparation, skirts the central issue of learning to teach. This article refocuses language teacher education on teaching itself by proposing two schemata: (a) a descriptive model that defines teaching as a decision‐making process based on the categories of know‐ledge, skills, attitude, and awareness and (b) a related framework of two educating strategies—training and development—to teach teaching.