Teaching at Work [recurso electrónico

This book presents a new and important scholarship on teaching, at the time when studies on teaching in teacher education are long overdue. This book is designed to put together such a set of chapters contributed by those teacher educators who are not only taking teaching as a professional practice, but also upholding teaching improvement as a scholarly pursuit that needs collaboration and systematic studies. Teaching at Work refers to not only the importance of effective teaching in K-12 classrooms and teacher preparation, but also the importance of taking teaching and its improvement as a subject of scholarly studies. In the field of teacher preparation, this book aims to make timely knowledge contribution and is positioned to stimulate further discussion and exploration on teaching and its improvement. The book contains 13 chapters by 35 scholars in the United States. This collection presents many innovative teaching practices and approaches as well as provides new insights into this topic of interest to teacher educators, researchers, and graduate students who wish to learn about various teaching approaches and practices for advancing teacher preparation. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Teaching at Work....Pages 3-8 Research-Based Approaches for Identifying and Assessing Effective Teaching Practices....Pages 9-27 Connecting Research and Practice through Teacher Knowledge....Pages 29-48 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Preservice Teachers’ Problem-Solving Lesson Engagement and Knowledge and Beliefs about Teaching for Equity....Pages 51-80 Changing Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Linguistic Diversity by Introducing a World Englishes Perspective....Pages 81-103 Subtracting Stereotypes through Studying Abroad....Pages 105-121 Preparing Preservice Teachers for Diverse Urban Classrooms1 ....Pages 123-143 Modeling the “Write” Teaching Practices....Pages 145-169 Minding the Gap....Pages 171-192 Technology Integration and Preservice Teachers....Pages 193-210 The Examined Life....Pages 211-233 Mentoring Viewed through an Open Classroom Experience....Pages 235-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Quality Teaching and Teacher Preparation....Pages 253-260 Back Matter....Pages 261-267