Thinking Like a Teacher
eBook - PDF

Thinking Like a Teacher

Preparing New Teachers for Today's Classrooms

  1. 207 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Thinking Like a Teacher

Preparing New Teachers for Today's Classrooms

About this book

Today's classrooms present a variety of challenges for teachers, many of which result from unanticipated, unpredictable events, from minor to serious. This collection of teacher narratives highlights several of these challenges with subsequent reflections and commentaries that invite conversations about aspects of teaching that often remain unacknowledged in educator preparation programs but that can have deleterious effects on the implementation of the pedagogical content knowledge that is promoted in these programs. Thinking Like a Teacher: Preparing New Teachersfor Today's Classrooms aims to address this gap in educator preparation programs through sharing and affirming teachers' voices as sources of pedagogical knowledge. Engagement with the narratives included in this collection will help teacher candidates perceive and think about teaching in new ways as they make the transition from instructional consumers to instructional leaders while simultaneously forging a new professional identity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I. PLANNING AND PREPARATION
  7. Ch01. Of Early Dismissals and Observations
  8. Ch02. One Size Never Fits All
  9. Ch03. The Best-Laid Plans?
  10. Ch04. The Fault of Technology
  11. Part II. THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
  12. Ch05. Creating an Atmosphere of Respect and Rapport
  13. Ch06. Many Things to Many People
  14. Part III. INSTRUCTION
  15. Ch07. A Horse to Water
  16. Ch08. A Tumultuous First Year
  17. Ch09. Teaching to an Empty Desk
  18. Ch10. An Unexpected Teachable Moment
  19. Part IV. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
  20. Ch11. Teacher-Parent
  21. Ch12. Lessons That “Stick”
  22. Ch13. Teaching a Student with Depression
  23. Ch14. The Pang of Terror
  24. Ch15. Defending and Protecting My Students
  25. Afterword
  26. Appendix A. Thinking Like a Teacher: Stage 2 Reflecting on Narratives and Danielson’s Framework for Teaching
  27. Appendix B. New Teacher Checklist
  28. References
  29. Index
  30. About the Authors and Contributors