The Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers

The Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers
Author: Elizabeth Soslau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807764949

"This guide provides a comprehensive toolkit for the complex work of field instruction, including mentoring approaches; conversation stems; conferencing techniques; lesson debriefing questions; understandings of programmatic goals; observation, assessment, and feedback methods; and more. Chapters are accessibly written and filled with concrete examples, tips, worksheets, and activities"--

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching
Author: Carol Marra Pelletier
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Student teachers
ISBN: 9780205396825

This book features a hands-on approach with practical activities that build on theory taught in methods courses and can be used in the field with college supervisors to strengthen the link between theory and practice. The chapters move pre-service teachers through their practicum experiences sequentially, beginning with the question, "Why do you want to be a teacher?" then progressing to the creation of a portfolio, tips for the job search, and a checklist for setting up a first classroom. From the first steps of student teaching to acquiring a first teaching position, the Second Edition of "Strategies for Successful Student Teaching" provides a comprehensive resource and guide for pre-service teachers beginning their student teaching or practicum experience. "Strategies for Successful Student Teaching" can be used with "A Handbook of Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, Second Edition, " also written by Pelletier, for the teacher working with the student teacher at the school site or the university supervisor. Although each book is designed to stand alone, together these books create a powerful set of tools that will enhance a teacher education program, and provide a cohesive program that encourages communication, reflection, and practical activities. New to this Edition: "Discussing Professional Standards: Quality Conversations to Enhance Student Learning," located at the beginning of every chapter, places Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards into the context in which they will be implemented. A PLAN section at the beginning of each chapter includes key areas to actively engage the reader and invite them to participate in creating a plan to read the chapter. INTASC Portfolio preparation, consolidated into Chapter 10, makes it easier for students to find information about creating interview portfolios. REFLECT feature at the end of each chapter, which revisits key questions in the chapter, has been updated to include Inquiry, Self-Reflection, and Critique. Expanded information in Chapter 7 on special education and diverse learners, differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and brain-based learning processes. Additional information on Standards and Outcomes of student learning throughout the book. More secondary education examples have been included. Revised numbering of the ACT Processes makes items easier to find. Related title: A Handbook of Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, 2/e Carol Marra Pelletier "Order No. 0-205-30361-7"

Finding Success the First Year

Finding Success the First Year
Author: Matthew Johnson
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607097346

New teachers have it tough. They have a very difficult and complex job, and they must learn how to do it in front of a studio audience of unruly adolescents, anxious parents, and watchful administrators. To help new teachers navigate this daunting backdrop, Finding Success the First Year is here to act as a personal guide to the first year of teaching. This book was written by a new teacher navigating through his own first year, and it uses those experiences to serve as a foundation for a step-by-step guide on how to survive and thrive in that all important first year. With everything from answers to frequent new-teacher questions and warnings of common new teacher pitfalls to specific strategies and veteran tricks useful for clawing back precious hours of the day, Matthew Johnson gives clear tips and clear reasons for them in a straightforward, jargonless voice and a mixture of practicality and philosophy.

The Ultimate Student Teaching Guide

The Ultimate Student Teaching Guide
Author: Kisha N. Daniels
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-12-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483308340

Concise and focused on practical strategies, this engaging, lighthearted guide provides teacher candidates a road map for negotiating the complex and diverse terrain of pre-K through 12 schools, while providing opportunities to develop the skills of reflection that are crucial to becoming a successful practitioner. The Second Edition provides practical, research-based, field-tested strategies that student teachers can immediately apply as they encounter school concerns, solve classroom challenges, negotiate social conflicts, and, new to this edition, navigate the job search and interview process. Concluding chapters challenge readers to view student teaching as a process and to use reflection as a tool for professional growth. Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition includes expanded coverage of workplace professionalism, an introduction to accreditation and the Common Core standards, and more.

A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education

A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education
Author: Katie O. Arosteguy
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0807761230

This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. The book moves from academic to professional writing and chapters include a discussion of relevant genres, mentor texts with salient features identified, visual aids, and exercises that ask students to apply their understanding of the concepts. Readers learn about the scholarly and qualitative research processes prevalent in the field of education and are encouraged to use writing to facilitate change that improves teaching and learning conditions. Book Features: · Presents a rhetorical approach to writing in education. · Includes detailed student samples for each of the four major categories of writing. · Articulates writing as a core intellectual responsibility of teachers. · Details the library and qualitative research process using examples from education. · Includes many user-friendly features, such as reflection questions and writing prompts.

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching
Author: Carol Pelletier Radford
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Student teachers
ISBN: 9780137059485

A one-of-a-kind guide for student teachers! Strategies for Successful Student Teaching: A Guide to Student Teaching, the Job Search, and Your First Classroom is a must-have resource for all student teachers. Providing a step-by-step guide that deftly leads teacher candidates through the student teaching process from their last day as a student to their first day as a teacher, it combines classroom prep activities, teaching plans, and opportunities for reflection to ensure that every teacher gets the most out of the student teaching experience and comes away ready and eager to lead their students' journeys through education. With the help of this practical and activity-based guide, teacher candidates will successfully transition from students to educators, prepared with the skills and practice necessary to lead a classroom, manage student behavior, plan lessons and units, prepare for interviews, achieve professional positions, and continually learn. What's New? 2011 INTASC Standards integrated into every chapter, ensuring that teacher prep meets national standards. Updated PLAN pages that offer tips for classroom planning. CONNECT pages now offer a range of resources for further learning and building relationships with parents and communities. ACTivities are linked to key questions designed to help students focus on practice in areas where they need more support. REFLECT and SET GOALS pages conclude each chapter, offering final reflections, testing knowledge, and suggesting artifacts to include in a teaching portfolio.

Designing your Teaching Life

Designing your Teaching Life
Author: Trace Lahey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475850158

Designing your Teaching Life is written for student teachers and their program-based mentors. This book provides engaging and detailed guidance for making the most out of the student teaching experience and overcoming the stressful situations and challenges that can arise during student teaching in today’s fast-paced, diverse, and evidence-based classrooms. Designing your Teaching Life supports the student teacher to organize his/her experience, build positive relationships with mentors and students, design high quality plans and instruction, and use assessment data to inform teaching and learning. Filled with narratives, snapshots, examples, questions, templates, and advice from program and school-based mentors as well as former student teachers, the book will support student teachers working in a range of classrooms, including physical education. In addition, advice about the edTPA is woven throughout the chapters to support student teachers preparing for this assessment. Reading this book will provide the student teacher the guidance he or she needs to design a rewarding and successful teaching life.

The Student Teacher's Handbook

The Student Teacher's Handbook
Author: Carol R. Schwebel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135645205

The Student Teacher's Handbook, Fourth Edition is a practical, user-friendly text that employs scientific research, sound advice, and student journal entries to encourage, sustain, and challenge the readers to function at their best during the crucial days of student teaching. Their needs--both professional and personal--during this stressful period guide the book's content. Student teachers' relationships--with students, cooperating teachers, and supervisors--are seen as being at the core of their teaching assignment. The authors draw on research in education and psychology that has practical application in the classroom and that helps student teachers cope with some of the tough problems connected with classroom management, including maintaining order and motivating students to learn. The book features: *practical, step-by-step assistance in helping student teachers make the most of their experience; *inclusion of the voices of many real student teachers who describe their difficulties and frustration--and how they overcome them; *in-depth discussion of the ways in which student teachers can make best use of cooperating teachers and university supervisors; *advice on making a smooth and successful transition from student teacher to teacher; and *attention to cutting-edge issues, such as multicultural education, effective use of technology, psychologically-appropriate methods of discipline, parent involvement in children's education, relevant education law, and other issues that challenge teachers at all levels. New in the fourth edition: *This popular text has been thoroughly updated and reorganized to eliminate repetition and make for a tighter narrative. *Increased attention has been given to the uses of technology in the classroom and to the pressures of school- or state-wide testing. *This edition includes additional journal entries from student teachers working at the middle and high school level, an expanded critical issues section, a refined description of problem-solving methods, and an updated discussion of multicultural education issues. This is an ideal text for the student teaching seminar at all levels of primary and secondary education, as well as a valuable resource for professors supervising student teachers and cooperating classroom teachers.

A Teacher's Guide to Special Education

A Teacher's Guide to Special Education
Author: David F. Bateman
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416622047

Despite the prevalence of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, few teachers receive training on how to meet these students’ needs or how to navigate Despite the prevalence of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, few teachers receive training on how to meet these students’ needs or how to navigate the legally mandated processes enumerated in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). What is their role? What are their responsibilities? What are the roles and rights of parents? And what must all teachers do to ensure that students with disabilities and other special needs receive the quality education they’re entitled to? In this practical reference, David F. Bateman—bestselling author of A Principal’s Guide to Special Education—and special education administrator Jenifer L. Cline clarify what general education teachers need to know about special education law and processes and provide a guide to instructional best practices for the inclusive classroom. Topics covered include The pre-referral, referral, and evaluation processes Individualized education programs (IEPs) and the parties involved Accommodations for students who do not quality for special education, including those covered by Section 504 Transition from preK to K–12 and from high school to postschool life Classroom management and student behavior Educational frameworks, instructional strategies, and service delivery options Assessment, grades, graduation, and diplomas The breadth of coverage in this book, along with its practical examples, action steps, and appendixes covering key terms and definitions will provide the foundation all K–12 teachers need to successfully instruct and support students receiving special education services. It’s an indispensable resource for every general education classroom. the legally mandated processes enumerated in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). What is their role? What are their responsibilities? What are the roles and rights of parents? And what must all teachers do to ensure that students with disabilities and other special needs receive the quality education they’re entitled to? In this practical reference, David F. Bateman—bestselling author of A Principal’s Guide to Special Education—and special education administrator Jenifer L. Cline clarify what general education teachers need to know about special education law and processes and provide a guide to instructional best practices for the inclusive classroom. Topics covered include The pre-referral, referral, and evaluation processes Individualized education programs (IEPs) and the parties involved Accommodations for students who do not quality for special education, including those covered by Section 504 Transition from preK to K–12 and from high school to postschool life Classroom management and student behavior Educational frameworks, instructional strategies, and service delivery options Assessment, grades, graduation, and diplomas The breadth of coverage in this book, along with its practical examples, action steps, and appendixes covering key terms and definitions will provide the foundation all K–12 teachers need to successfully instruct and support students receiving special education services. It’s an indispensable resource for every general education classroom.

Teaching Matters

Teaching Matters
Author: Aeron Haynie
Publisher: Teaching and Learning in Highe
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781952271540

A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields. In a book written directly for graduate students that includes graduate student voices and experiences, Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong establish why good teaching matters and offer a guide to helping instructors-in-training create inclusive and welcoming classrooms. Teaching Matters is informed by recent research while being grounded in the personal perspectives of current and past graduate students in many disciplines. Graduate students can use this book independently to prepare to teach their courses, or it can be used as a guide for a teaching practicum. With a just-in-time checklist for graduate students who are assigned to teach courses right before the semester starts, step-by-step directions for writing a compelling teaching philosophy, and an emphasis on teaching well regardless of modality, Teaching Matters will remain relevant for graduate students throughout their careers.