Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Cohan, Audrey; Honigsfeld, Andrea; Barber, Liz; Bessette, Harriet J.; Bleistein, Tasha; Brogden, Lace Marie; Brown-Schild, Valerie B.; Causton-Theoharis, Julie; Cherubini, Lorenzo; Chikapa, Ethel; Chodakowski, Anne; Coble, Charles R.; Colomer, Soria E.; C

• ISBN13: 9781607095521
• ISBN10: 1607095521
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education. Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation programs and initiatives. These chapters offer compelling ideas to readers who seek change in the higher education model of teacher training. Section II features inservice education for both the novice and veteran teacher. The chapters included in this section of the book offer stories of innovation as professional development initiatives. Each of the programs describes the setting or context in which the innovation takes place and focuses on the role of teachers and students. Chapters in Section III highlight the benefits of collaborative teacher education practices. Through the lens of community and with the tools of cooperation and support, innovative practices are described for the improvement of student learning. Section IV offers less commonly presented diverse, global perspectives on teacher education. The sharing of ideas through global examples highlight the similarities in educational practices and common goals across the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Preservice Teacher Education	p. 1
Mirrors, Maps, and Torchlights: Enacting a Conceptual Framework for Teacher Education	p. 5
ôI Would Rather Feel Uncomfortable in an Education Class Than at the School Where I Teachö: Cultural and Political Vignettes as a Pedagogical Approach in Teacher Education	p. 15
Building a Bridge from the Experiential to the Textual: Preparing Critical Readers for a Complex Teaching Terrain	p. 25
Raising the Bar for Twenty-First-Century Teacher Preparation	p. 35
Practice-Based Teaching and Community Field Experiences for Prospective Teachers	p. 45
High-Impact Practices and the Preparation of Educators in the New Era	p. 55
Service Learning as a Vehicle for Examining Assumptions about Culture and Education	p. 65
Modeling Assessment and the Impact on K-16 Student Learning	p. 75
Inservice Teacher Education	p. 89
When Mentoring Is Not Enough: A Multiyear Induction Program	p. 91
When All Really Means All: Schools of Promise, School Reform, and Innovative Professional Development	p. 101
Technology on the Frontier of Inservice Teacher Education	p. 113
Teaching Outside the Book: Inservice Teacher Education for a New World	p. 123
Promoting Teachers' Social and Emotional Competencies to Support Performance and Reduce Burnout	p. 133
From Muteness to Provocation: An Emerging Developmental Model of Teacher Leadership	p. 145
Collaborative Teacher Education Practices	p. 157
Grow Your Own Teachers: Community-Based Change in Teacher Education	p. 159
Cooking ôHickory Soupö and Other Ways to Develop Successful Interprofessional Internships for Preservice Teachers	p. 167
Foreign Language Teacher Technology Education: Innovation through Social Networking	p. 177
School-Community-Based Urban Teacher Education as a Voice for the Community	p. 189
The Association of Raza Educators: Community-Based Teacher Organizing and the Development of Alternative Forms of Teacher Collaboration	p. 199
School Improvement: Collaboration for Success	p. 209
Global Perspectives on Teacher Education	p. 217
Preparing New Teachers for the Full Catastrophe of the Twenty-First-Century Classroom: Integrating Mindfulness Training into Initial Teacher Education	p. 219
Engaging Imaginations and Emotions in Preservice Teacher Education	p. 229
Teacher Induction in Scotland: Once Little Short of Scandalous, Now World Class	p. 241
Cooperating across Cultures: Professional Development in a Chinese Minority Region	p. 249
Breaking the Mold to Mend the Wounds: An Innovative Model of Collaborative Practice to Further Aboriginal Student Learning	p. 259
Participatory Action Research for Teacher Development in Malawi	p. 269
Afterword: Innovation as Hope	p. 279
Contributors	p. 285
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