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Student Teaching Experience —
Cases from the Classroom
Edition 2
Patricia Wentz
0-13-026100-9
Paperback
296 pages
2001
Brief Description
Appropriate for Student Teaching/Field Experience Courses.
This efficient casebook guides the student teacher, the cooperating teacher, and the university supervisor from day one in the assigned classroom through the adjustments of beginning to teach in the classroom and on to the certification and job application processes. The 163 cases included are about real-life, everyday classroom activities. It is unique in the fact that it has more potential application for immediate use than any other text in the field.
Features
- Applicable topics within each chapter - Guidelines for the student teacher, guidelines for the cooperating teacher, case studies, references, and recommended readings. Student teachers are offered material in a near-reference style that encourages actual use and application.
- Variety of instructional technology - Including Internet experiences and websites to assist the student teacher. An element of acceptance and familiarity with technology-based instruction is embodied in the text, which encourages student teachers to embrace and integrate it into their instruction.
- Case studies - Allow student teachers to learn vicariously and help hone the professional training necessary for success. Acknowledging that student teachers will not experience every classroom scenario first-hand, they are buoyed by reading about other situations that they could conceivably experience in the future.
New To This Edition
3-way communication - Among student teacher, cooperating teacher, and the university supervisor stressed throughout the text. Beginning teachers are brought into the reality of functioning within a team of comrades who bring identical and different goals and perspectives to the student teaching experience.
Classroom management and classroom organization - Combined to offer a focused, unified approach to running the classroom. Students are brought to think about how teachers skills impact the classroom as a cohesive unit and the success to which a classroom functions as an interdependent body.
Helping Students Learn chapter - Assists students in planning for increased student learning. The primary responsibility of teaching and planning for increased student learning is reinforced to pre-service teachers at this critical juncture in the student-teachers career—a time when a multitude of priorities are imposed.
Text presents the use of technology-based instruction to the student-teacher as a “given” in the development of lesson plans, so that it is not perceived as an option.
Short, declarative statements - Translate into a highly readable style. Students are enabled to easily file bits of information into their existing memory bank as each piece of information becomes applicable to their learning experience.
Chapters develop through the chronology of the student teaching semester. Students are likely to attach practical meaning to concepts due to the timely exposure of these concepts throughout the course of their student teaching experience.
Contents
I. A PROFESSIONAL ENTRANCE.
1. Getting Off to a Good Start.
2. Getting to Know Administration, Faculty and Staff.
3. Becoming Familiar with School Property.
4. Becoming Familiar with School Policies.
5. Discovering School Referral Services.
6. Observations.
7. Evaluation of the Student Teacher.
8. Legal Status.
9. Ethics of the Teaching Profession.
II. THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
10. The Student Teacher.
11. The Cooperating Teacher.
12. The University Supervisor.
13. The Students in the Classroom.
III. DIVERSITY.
14. Multicultural Students.
15. Special-Needs Students.
IV. STUDENT LEARNING.
16. Helping Students Learn.
17. Some Current Theories.
18. Learning Styles.
19. What Seems to Work.
V. PLANNING FOR SUCCESS.
20. Planning.
VI. CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.
21. Classroom Organization.
22. Classroom Management.
VII. THE TEACHING PROCESS.
23. Teacher Competencies.
24. Student Teaching Communication.
25. Availability of Materials.
26. Implementation of the Classroom Process.
27. Instructional Evaluation.
VIII. THE NEXT PROFESSIONAL STEP.
28. Certification.
29. Job Placement.
Appendices.
About the Author.
Index.
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