Abstract
The article concerns the authors visit to Columbia University Teachers College in New York. TC is known to be one of the most prestigious centres of teachers’ education in the United States. It is the place where the modern didactic discourse on mother tongue education has been highly developed in the last decades. The specificity of TC’s educational program lies in the importance of philosophical issues and courses in the art of teaching. The two-semester long professional practices in NY schools are the core of the teacher’s education process in TC. In addition to the information about the content of English Teaching programs in TC, the article also contains a comment on some of the academic teaching methods used in Teachers College, especially those connected with the use of multimedia. Another aspect of the article is the report on several English and Humanities lessons visited in NY schools, where the author had an opportunity to see some techniques leading to the authentic, visible learning.