The Case For 21st Century Teacher Preparation: The Call To Serving The Most Vulnerable Students In K-12 Education Is Challenging The Status Quo And Realization Of The Promise Of Instructional Leadership

Abstract

Education is a human endeavor through which nations seem to have demonstrated a commoninterest in the promise that education makes society better, and can improve the human condition. At theforefront of society-wide effort toward national development, are teachers. Through them, schools anduniversities--which constitute the most extended networks of human organization present in any country--are created to typically function as excel of society performing prophylactic and prognostic roles in wealthcreation and improved human condition. But in the modern society, some people experience limited accessto education that others take for granted. Among the inhabitants that cannot take advantage of the yellowbrick road to acquiring a good education, as well as attaining a satisfactory standard of living in America,typically belong to the lower socioeconomic status. Teachers constitute a foundation of untapped dynamismand insight to profoundly change schools and improve student outcomes. Therefore, in the 21st century,teacher preparation implies sufficiently equipping preservice teachers with distinctive capabilities to servethe most vulnerable students in K-12 schools to become empowered participants in national development.