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How can early and preservice teachers master the complex practice of teaching? This clearly written, research-based guide shows how to successfully navigate coursework, build relationships with mentors, and negotiate fieldwork and student teaching while developing metacognitive thinking skills. These are skills that allow teachers to continuously reflect on instructional practices and adapt them to fit their own teaching context and their students’ diverse needs. Metacognitive teaching requires higher-level thought processes that, for teachers, include making connections among each segment of the teacher preparation program, as well as deciding how these experiences directly and effectivel...
"This is a practical resource for teacher candidates and early career teachers. The purpose of this book is to provide support for individuals as they journey toward becoming teachers. Excellent teaching is based upon professional judgment that is acquired through sound teacher preparation, scaffolded teaching experiences to apply newly acquired pedagogical knowledge in the classroom as teacher candidates, and initial teaching experiences that are supported by induction programs"--
Learning to Teach is a collection of field-based research that examines "learning to teach" in pre-service preparation. Teacher professional learning is a complex process that draws attention to the contextual and consequential aspects of learning to teach as well as the relational dynamics that reside within all preparation programs.
Today, the meaning of literacy, what it means to be literate, has shifted dramatically. Literacy involves more than a set of conventions to be learned, either through print or technological formats. Rather, literacy enables people to negotiate meaning. The past decade has witnessed increased attention on multiple literacies and modalities of learning associated with teacher preparation and practice. Research recognizes both the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the new globalized society and the new variety of text forms from multiple communicative technologies. There is also the need for new skills to operate successfully in the changing literate and increasingly diversified s...