Stanford School of Education Cubberley Lecture Series Presents:
Preparing Minds for Chance Favors:
The Challenges of Routine and Surprise in Professional Education
A talk by Lee Shulman
President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University
At many levels, teachers must be prepared for both the unexpected and expected. We not only teach future professionals to plan and learn for typical situations; we also prepare them to improvise and cope with surprises. Like teachers, others in professional practice - whether they are physicians; lawyers, nurses, engineers, or clergy - alternate constantly between performing routine procedures and handling unpredictable challenges. Drawing on research on professional teaching and learning at the Carnegie Foundation and at Stanford, Lee Shulman will examine the important lessons that are emerging about approaches to teaching, learning, and the role of habit, judgement, and identity in the formation of professionals.
A Q&A session and reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Lee Shulman is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, he served as a professor of educational psychology and medical education at Michigan State University, where he founded and co-directed the Institute for Research on Teaching. Shulman is a past president of the American Educational Research Association and the National Academy of Education. His honors include a Guggenheim fellowhship, the E.L. Thorndike Award from the American Psychological Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shulman's research investigates teaching and teacher education, assessment, the scholarship of teaching, and signature pedagogies in the professions. His Stanford University research team developed the portfolio-based performance assessment prototypes for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards between 1985 and 1990. Shulman received the 2006 Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book The Wisdom of Practice.