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Grossman,
Pam
Nomellini Olivier Professor of Education |
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"Typically, professional development has been done by sending teachers off to workshops and classes, but the flaw in that plan is that even if the teacher is transformed in the process, he or she returns to an unchanged school and soon becomes frustrated and discouraged. . . Professional development to me means investing in teachers' capacity to go on learning throughout their careers. School reforms come and go, but the success of any reform depends on teachers themselves."
- (from a recent interview)
Dr. Grossman's teaching and research interests center on the education of teachers and professional education more generally, policy and programmatic issues related to teacher education, and the teaching of secondary English. Her publications include: The Making of a Teacher: Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Education, a co-edited volume (with Sam Wineburg), entitled Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Challenges to Implementation, as well as articles in Teachers College Record, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Journal of Literacy Research, Teaching and Teacher Education , Review of Research in Education, among others. Her current research includes a study of pathways into teaching in New York City schools (with Don Boyd, Hamp Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and Jim Wyckoff) and a cross-professional study of preparation of clergy, teachers, and clinical psychologists. She has served as the Vice-President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) for the American Educational Research Association and as a member of AERA’s Council and Executive Board. |
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* PhD (Curriculum and Teacher Education) Stanford University, 1988;
* EdS (Evaluation) Stanford University, 1988;
* MA (Instructional Research and Curriculum Design) University of California, Berkeley, 1981;
* BA (English), Yale University, 1975; |
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* Basic Skills Teacher, CETA Youth Program Skills Center, New Haven, CT (1975-1976)
* English Teacher, Thacher School, Ojai, CA (1976-1977)
* Career Education and Counseling, Adult Learning Programs of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (1979-1980)
* Life Skills Teacher, Upward Bound Program, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (1980)
* English Teacher, University High School, San Francisco, CA (1977-1983)
* Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Washington (1988-1992)
* Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Washington (1992-2000)
* Full Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Washington (1999-2000)
* Boeing Professor of Teacher Education, University of Washington (1996-2000) |
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* Since 2000
* Professor of Education (2000 - ) |
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* Study of classroom practice in middle school English Language Arts (with Susanna Loeb), funded by the Carnegie Corporation;
* Study of pathways into teaching in New York City Schools (with Don Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and Jim Wyckoff).
* Cross-professional study of the teaching of practice in programs to prepare teachers, clergy, and clinical psychologists (funded by the Spencer Foundation). |
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* ED 262: Curriculum & Instruction in Secondary English (STEP)
* ED 465: Pedagogy of Teacher Education
* ED 424: Intro to Research in Curriculum & Teacher Education
* ED 466: Doctoral Seminar in Curriculum & Teacher Education
* ED 232a: Teaching: Questions for Research, Practice, & Policy
* ED 111: The Young Adult Novel: A Literature for and about Adolescents |
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* Grossman, P., Compton, C., Igra, D., Ronfeldt, M., Shahan, E., Williamson, P. (2009). Teaching practice; A cross-professional perspective. Teachers College Record. 111 (9).
* Boyd, D., Grossman, P., Hammerness, K., Lankford, H., Loeb, S., McDonald, M., Reininger, M., Ronfeldt, M., & Wyckoff, J. (in press). Surveying the landscape of teacher education in New York City: Constrained variation and the challenges of innovation. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
* Grossman, P., Hammerness, K., McDonald, M., & Ronfeldt, M. (2008). Constructing coherence: Structural predictors of perceptions of coherence in NYC teacher education programs. Journal of Teacher Education.
* Grossman, P. & Thompson, C. (2008). Learning from curriculum materials: Scaffolds for new teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(8), 2014-2026.
* Ronfeldt, M. & Grossman, P. (in press). Becoming a professional: Experimenting with possible selves in professional preparation. Teacher Education Quarterly.
* Grossman, P & McDonald, M. (2008). Back to the future: Directions for research in teaching and teacher education. American Educational Research Journal. 45 (1), 184-205.
* Grossman, P. (2008). Responding to our critics: From crisis to opportunity in research on teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(1), 10-23.
* Grossman, P., McDonald, M., Hammerness, K., & Ronfeldt, M. (2008). Dismantling dichotomies in teacher education. In M. Cochran-Smith & S. Feiman-Nemser, McIntyre J., and Demers, K. (Eds.), The handbook of teacher education: A project of the Association of Teacher Educators (3rd Edition), pp. 243-248. New York, NY Macmillan.
* Boyd, D., Grossman, P., Lankford, H., Loeb, S., & Wyckoff, J. (2006). How changes in entry requirements alter the teacher workforce and affect student achievement. Education Finance and Policy 1(2), 176-216.
* Boyd, D., Grossman, P., Lankford, H., Loeb, S., Michelli, N. & Wyckoff, J. (2006). Complex by design: Investigating pathways into teaching in New York City Schools. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(2), 155-166.
* Grossman, P. L. (2005). Research on pedagogical approaches in teacher education. In M. Cochran-Smith & K. Zeichner (Eds.), Review of research in teacher education. Washington D. C.: American Educational Research Association.
* Grossman, P. L., Schoenfeld, A., with Lee, C. D. (2005). Teaching subject matter: In L. Darling-Hammond, J. Bransford, P. LePage, K. Hammerness, & H. Duffy (Eds.), Preparing teachers for a changing world: What teachers should learn and be able to do. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. |
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* Principal Investigator, Teachers for a New Era, 2007-present
* Faculty Director, Center to Support Excellence in Teaching
* Member, Steering Committee, K-12 Initiative
* Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2006-2007) |
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* Phone: (650) 723 0791
* Email: pamg@stanford.edu
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