At the Elbow of Another : Learning to Teach by Coteaching

by Roth, Wolff-Michael; Tobin, Kenneth George

• ISBN13: 9780820455679
• ISBN10: 0820455679
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach, written from the perspectives and experiences of two educators who teach and, in so doing, learn to teach. Teaching and learning to teach at the elbows of other teachers (including ourselves) provide us with new and different understandings and allow us to describe a different epistemology of teaching. We adopt a first-person perspective on teaching, sometimes our own and at other times that of peers but through the eyes of coparticipants engaged in an activity with the same primary intention of assisting students to learn. Throughout this book, we focus on teaching and learning to teach at different stages of the career ladder and explore different ways of conceiving the roles of researchers, supervisors, evaluators, cooperating teachers, and <>

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Teaching as Praxis	1	(48)
Re-learning to Teach	49	(40)
Becoming a Teacher at City High School	89	(40)
Historical Contexts of Coteaching in an Urban School	129	(48)
Learning to Teach Science in an Urban School	177	(36)
Researching as Coteaching and Colearning: Lessons from the Dihybrid Cross	213	(30)
Coteaching/Cogenerative Dialoguing: Research as Research as Classroom Praxis	243	(28)
Coteaching/Cogenerative Dialoguing as Evaluation Methodology	271	(24)
Epilogue: Looking Back--To the Future	295	(20)
Glossary	315	(4)
References	319	(12)
Author Index	331	(4)
Index	335