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Teaching at Work

  • This book presents a new and important scholarship on teaching and is positioned to stimulate further discussion and exploration on teaching and its improvement in teacher preparation.

Part of the book series: Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education (ATTE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction and Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Teaching at Work

      • Yeping Li, Janet Hammer
      Pages 3-8
    3. Research-Based Approaches for Identifying and Assessing Effective Teaching Practices

      • Hersh C. Waxman, Nancy Dubinski Weber, Susana E. Franco-Fuenmayor, Kayla B. Rollins
      Pages 9-27
    4. Connecting Research and Practice through Teacher Knowledge

      • Emily Binks-Cantrell, R. Malatesha Joshi
      Pages 29-48
  3. Selected Approaches and Practices in Teaching and Teacher Preparation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. Preservice Teachers’ Problem-Solving Lesson Engagement and Knowledge and Beliefs about Teaching for Equity

      • Trina J. Davis, Gerald Kulm, Ayse Tugba Oner, S. Enrico P. Indiogine, Dianne S. Goldsby, Tingting Ma
      Pages 51-80
    3. Subtracting Stereotypes through Studying Abroad

      • Cynthia Boettcher, Janet Hammer, Sunni Sonnenburg
      Pages 105-121
    4. Preparing Preservice Teachers for Diverse Urban Classrooms1

      • Kamala Williams, Norvella Carter
      Pages 123-143
    5. Modeling the “Write” Teaching Practices

      • Tracey S. Hodges, Erin Mctigue, April G. Douglass, Nancy Dubinski Weber, Katherine Landau Wright, Anna De La Garza
      Pages 145-169
    6. Minding the Gap

      • Katherine Landau Wright, Tracey S. Hodges, Amanda D. Franks, Erin Mctigue, April G. Douglass
      Pages 171-192
    7. Technology Integration and Preservice Teachers

      • Robin Rackley, Radhika Viruru
      Pages 193-210
    8. The Examined Life

      • Lynne Masel Walters, Martha R. Green, Timothy N. Walters, Liangyan Wang
      Pages 211-233
    9. Mentoring Viewed through an Open Classroom Experience

      • Dianne S. Goldsby, Mary Figuero-Charles
      Pages 235-250
  4. Commentary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
    2. Quality Teaching and Teacher Preparation

      • Douglas J. Palmer
      Pages 253-260
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 261-267

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, USA

    Yeping Li, Janet Hammer

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