Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Performance

Teh Impact of Teacher Education

James Raths, Amy C. McAninch, James Raths, Amy C. McAninch

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781593110680
  9781593110697
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607529651
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

This volume of Advances in Teacher Education is about beliefs held by teachers and addresses the important topic of teacher beliefs from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Most of the authors who have contributed to this collection of essays assume that beliefs are propositions that are felt to be true by the person embracing them, but that do not necessarily rest on the kind of evidence that justifies the use of the term "knowledge." Teacher beliefs are an important topic because it is hypothesized that teachers and teacher candidates use them to shape the information they receive from formal teacher preparation and to direct subsequent decision-making in the classroom.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Performance: The Impact of Teacher Education
• Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Performance:The Impact of Teacher Education
• Copyright
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• 1: PRESERVICE TEACHERS' BELIEFS
• 2: PROMPTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS' BELIEFS THROUGH CASES, ACTION RESEARCH, PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY
• 3: TEACHER BELIEFS, PERFORMANCE AND PROFICIENCY IN DIVERSITY-ORIENTED TEACHER PREPARATION
• 4: IS REALISM A BETTER BELIEFTHAN NOMINALISM?: Reopening the Ancient Debate
• 5: AT THE HEART OF TEACHING: The Role of Emotion in Changing Teachers' Beliefs1
• 6: TEACHER EDUCATION AND TEACHERS' BELIEFS: Theoretical and Measurement Concerns
• 7: THE IMPACT OF SCHOOLS ON TEACHER BELIEFS, INFLUENCE, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: The Role of Collective Efficacy Beliefs