Product Description: A volume in The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education Series Editors: Steven B. Mertens, Illinois State University and Micki M. Caskey, Portland State University This text highlights partnerships between schools and teacher preparation programs where candidates have opportunities to learn in their coursework alongside teachers in the classroom in clinical settings, bridging the theory practice divide and helping candidates better understand the simultaneous and multi dimensional nature of teaching and learning in schools...read more

A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music is a practical guide focused on the link between music education coursework and the field-based aspects of the student teaching experience. It addresses general topics that are common to all music placements, as well as those topics that are of specific interest to the general, choral, and instrumental music classrooms. This text builds on theoretical materials typically covered in music methods courses, yet it is not specific to any one particular teaching pedagogy, making it flexible enough for use in a variety of music teaching settings. It will guide students through the student teaching process as they make the transition from student to music educator.

Product Description: Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through senior high school students feel more confident about themselves and their learning...read more

Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success is designed for students who are assuming the responsibilities of teaching young children while receiving guidance and supervision. Students may be taking part in a variety of student teaching experiences. These may include capstone courses for one-year certificate programs and for associate degree programs, practicum experiences in a community college setting, as well as traditional early childhood programs in a four-year university setting. This text offers both theory and practical application to guide each student to a successful conclusion of the practicum and student teaching experience.    New to this Edition!   ·        Current information on national and state standards ·         Reauthorization of RReauthorization of No Child Left Behind ·         Assessment of ALL children ·         Diverse family structures and family systems such as grandparent-headed families,families with one or more LGBT parents,               military families, single parent families, and families experiencing poverty ·         Expanded focus on inclusion and working with children who have special needs and their families ·         Expanded focus on professional behavior ·         Lesson planning with sample formats ·         Electronic portfolio development and expanded portfolio activities ·         Helpful web sites on each topic

Product Description: Student teaching can be an endeavor fraught with anxiety. Those entering the classroom for the first time face the daunting challenge of translating coursework on the theory of teaching into real-world experience. Common questions for anxious student teachers include: Will I be a good teacher? Will I ever get control of my classroom? How can I do all of this grading and plan for next week at the same time? This helpful guide by teacher educator Rosalyn McKeown offers practical suggestions for student teachers, interns, and teacher candidates just starting out in a secondary school classroom...read more

Product Description: A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music is a practical guide focused on the link between music education coursework and the field-based aspects of the student teaching experience. It addresses general topics that are common to all music placements, as well as those topics that are of specific interest to the general, choral, and instrumental music classrooms...read more

Product Description: Book by Hardin, Carlette Jackson

Product Description: Book by Wiseman, Donna L., Elish-Piper, Laurie, Wiseman, Angela M.

Product Description: The book is a collection of real-life letters to veteran teacher Mike Rychlik along with his responses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"A revised edition of the classic text, this volume explores the problem of what learning to teach means for those involved." (view table of contents)

Product Description: This new edition of a very successful book offers an innovative teaching methodology that place the teacher's own biography and life experiences at the center of teacher education. By asking students to explore their own systems of meaning and the associated contexts, especially school contexts, the author encourages them to contemplate issues of power that are vital to thinking about the teacher's role, as well as educational practices and purposes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A major shortcoming of teacher education programs at the university level is that they often inadequately prepare our future teachers for successfully meeting the needs of students form diverse cultural, ethnic, and educational backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The observations of four teachers assigned to a middle school in the United States for a year's teaching experience are recounted in this book. Their accounts reflect the idealism, enthusiasm, commitment and trepidation shared by the body of student teachers, offering a deep understanding of what teaching is about and why teachers continue in a profession often filled with difficulties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The evolution of a student teacher to a qualified teacher in the United States is explored in this practical volume. An integral element of this evolutionary process is the role played by those who mould the new teachers: the university supervisor, cooperating teacher and school principal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Critical issues facing the future of teacher education are presented in this book. The contributors tackle factors including: multicultural education for an increasingly multicultural population; using technology in teacher preparation programmes; developing teacher leadership abilities for on the spot decision-making; and international perspectives in teacher education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book explains how to develop and evaluate an effective field experience programme for student teachers. Using examples from the United States education system, contributors examine these programmes from the prospective teacher's first visit to a classroom through to programmes for newly qualified teachers. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Based on 10 years of classroom experience, this work challenges the traditional view of beginning teachers as passive recipients of expertise. It demonstrates how novice teachers can be encouraged to discover their skills and talents, gain new insights, and become active and enthusiastic participants in their own instruction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Stories of Collaboration in Teacher Education" centres around participants in a year-long alternative teacher-education programme who, through discussions about their professional and personal lives, found themselves questioning the larger construction of teacher pedagogy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by nationally respected experts, this collection addresses the substantive, political, and organisational questions that arise with the creation of professional practice schools. Basing their writings on practical experience, contributors integrate the restructuring of schools with the redesigning of teacher education, placing student learning at the core of any plan for change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Kreamelmeyer, F. D.