Teacher Education Initiative
Building and Studying Practice-Based Teacher Education at the University of Michigan
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The Teacher Education Initiative (TEI) is a comprehensive project to redesign how teachers are prepared for practice at the University of Michigan, and to build knowledge and tools that will inform teacher education more broadly. Recognizing that teachers play a pivotal role in improving p-12 education in the United States, we aim to develop professional education that will prepare novices to do the complex relational, psychological, social, and intellectual work of teaching. We also intend to study our efforts and to gather and disseminate systematic evidence of and about effective teacher education.
The Initiative is under the leadership of the dean at the School of Education. Initial funding for the project comes from the Office of the Provost at the University of Michigan. Additional funding for parts of our current work comes from the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.
