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The focus of this book is the centrality of clinical experiences in preparing teachers to work with students from diverse cultural, economic, and experiential backgrounds. Organized around three themes--learning teaching through the approximation and representation of practice, learning teaching situated in context, and assessing and improving teacher preparation--Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation provides detailed descriptions...

This book is based on the INTASC principles - the most widely recognized and used set of national standards for classroom educators in the U.S. "Specifically, it teaches candidates how to select powerful artifacts of their teaching and how to construct meaningful reflective statements in the context of powerful professional portfolios" -- Preface.

The companion book to the updated edition of the best-selling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All, this revised edition focuses on step-by-step training activities for job-embedded professional development in differentiated instruction. THis workshop-friendly resource offers guidelines for small study groups or larger staff development meetings and includes: research-based approaches for responding to concerns about change...

This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching in Japan from the teacher's perspective relying on first hand accounts by those within the system.

"In Professional Development Schools: Schools for Developing a Profession, volume editor Linda Darling-Hammond and the other contributors explain the function, structure, and philosophy of the professional development school. They examine its aims and compare this new model of teacher education with the procedures other professions use to integrate and support their members. They also present a number of case studies of professional development school...

"With the recent and increasing attention to accountability and standards, teacher preparation programs are more than ever in need of tools that vicariously acquaint future teachers with the difficult situations they will face. Cases for Teacher Development: Preparing for the Classroom is the perfect catalyst for this sort of teacher development. The cases encourage students to immerse themselves in classroom situations before they begin their practice,...

In this video viewers will learn about the important role teacher presence has in motivating and engaging learners, and will learn ways to increase teacher presence when learning goes online. Presented by Marissa Aroy, educator and Emmy Award winner.

"Narratives From the Classroom: An Introduction to Teaching initiates readers to many of the important classroom issues surrounding the field of teaching. This book is unique in that it is a collection of personal accounts and ideas written by the teachers and teacher educators who lived those experiences. This introduction to teaching covers a wide range of topics, including the purpose of schools and teachers, issues about policies and programs...