Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education : Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century /

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break th...

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Other Authors: Cohan, Audrey, Honigsfeld, Andrea, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mirrors, maps, and torchlights: enacting a conceptual framework for teacher education / Catherine McTamaney and Amy Palmeri
  • "I would rather feel uncomfortable in an education class than at the school where I teach": cultural and political vignettes as a pedagogical approach in teacher education / Jacqueline Darvin
  • Building a bridge from the experiential to the textual: preparing critical readers for a complex teaching terrain / Laura R. Kates
  • Raising the bar for 21st century teacher preparation / Mark Warner [and others]
  • Practice-based teaching and community field experiences for prospective teachers / Ken Zeichner and Morva McDonald
  • High impact practices and the preparation of educators in the new era / Yi-Ping Huang
  • Service-learning as a vehicle for examining assumptions about culture and education / Peter Smagorinsky
  • Modeling assessment and the impact on K-16 student learning / Sheryl L. McGlamery and Saundra L. Shillingstad
  • When mentoring is not enough: a multi-year induction program / Joseph Corriero and Lynn Romeo
  • When all really means all: schools of promise, schools of reform, and innovative professional development / George Theoharis and Julie Causton-Theoharis
  • Technology on the frontier of inservice teacher education / Diane Lapp [and others]
  • Teaching outside the book: inservice teacher education for a new world / Susan K. Parry [and others]
  • Promoting teachers' social and emotional competencies to support performance and reduce burnout / Patricia A. Jennings
  • From muteness to provocation: an emerging developmental model of teacher leadership / Nita A. Paris [and others]
  • Grow your own teachers: community-based change in teacher education / Elizabeth A. Skinner
  • Cooking "hickory soup" and other ways to develop successful interprofessional internships for preservice teachers / Twyla Salm and Lace Marie Brogden
  • Foreign language teacher technology education: innovation through social networking / Victoria Hasko and Soria E. Colomer
  • School-community based urban teacher education as a voice for the community / Jana Noel
  • The association of Raza educators: community-based teacher organizing and the development of alternative forms of teacher collaboration / Miguel Zavala
  • School improvement: collaboration for success / Mary Ellen Freeley, Andrew Ferdinandi, and Paul Pedota
  • Preparing new teachers for the full catastrophe of the 21st century classroom: integrating mindfulness training into initial teacher education / Geoffrey B. Soloway, Patricia A. Poulin, and Corey S. Mackenzie
  • Engaging imaginations and emotions in preservice teacher education / Anne Chodakowski and Kieran Egan
  • Teacher induction in Scotland: once little short of scandalous, now world class / Ian Matheson, Mairi McAra, and Thomas Hamilton
  • Cooperating across cultures: professional development in a Chinese minority region / Tasha Bleistein and Tao Rui
  • Breaking the mold to mend the wounds: an innovative model of collaborative practice to further aboriginal student learning / Lorenzo Cherubini
  • Participatory action research for teacher development in Malawi / Liz Barber [and others], with the following teachers from the Domasi Demonstration Primary School, Zomba, Malawi: Chifundo Ziyaya [and others].