Rich Waters

Teaching the Next Generation of Teachers (eBook, ePUB)

Preparing for the Practice of Learning Communities in Secondary School

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching the Next Generation of Teachers looks to serve the many teachers who teach or sponsor classes, clubs, or conferences for secondary school students who aspire to become teachers. Based on the author's research with students in the Tomorrow's Teachers program, the book's development is rich with the voices of students and their reflections on how teachers sometimes inspired them to teach and sometimes impelled them to think of new ways to teach. Their personal stories as learners will validate all students' experiences as it both invites and inspires aspiring teachers in secondary schools to fulfill their dreams by becoming teachers. Guided by the learning community concept, it presents research and practical activities that will assist teachers and their students in re-imagining and re-inventing what teachers and schools do. It does this as it presents important research on how professional learning communities have the most positive effects on student learning while also empowering teachers to greater job satisfaction. Most importantly, this book will serves as a practical, how-to guide so secondary school students can begin to experience working in a professional learning community as they strive to improve the schools they are in right now. In doing this, the book adheres to the idea that 'student leadership now is the best preparation for teacher leadership later.' It will help aspiring teachers move away from the many stale traditions in schooling as they re-conceive of the profession in ways that will make it more personally satisfying while acknowledging that the work of teachers in the 21st century must necessarily be different from what we have now, legacy practices of standardization left over from the industrial age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475829181
• Artikelnr.: 45222923

Autorenporträt

Rich Waters is a career high school teacher and Ph.D. whose interests in school reform and teacher education led him to assist in the creation and co-coordination of a professional development school and later to become a founding member of the National Association of Professional Development Schools. His decades of work and recent research in a high school helped him to see the need to situate teacher induction, preparation and development in local schools, not on the campuses of higher education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Introduction
Part One: Your Future Being a Teacher
Chapter One: Your Students' Vision - Imagining You in a School of the
Future
Chapter Two: Your Students' Leadership - It Begins with a New Mindset
Chapter Three: Your Students' Career - Staying with the Past or Leading
into the Future
Part Two: Benchmarks in the Evolution of Teaching
Chapter Four: Teachers Learn and Teach 21st Century Skills
Chapter Five: Teachers Recognize Quality Levels in Learning
Chapter Six: Teachers Invite Students to Share Their Voices
Chapter Seven: Teachers Facilitate Greater Individualization of Study
Chapter Eight: Teachers Investigate Students' Learning Engagement
Chapter Nine: Teachers Elicit Intrinsic Motivation and 'Knowing Myself as a
Learner'
Chapter Ten: Teachers Stop the Game of School
Part Three: Leading the Evolution of Teaching and Learning
Chapter Eleven: 'The Story of Jane'
Chapter Twelve: Let's Imagine a 21st Century Secondary School
Part Four: The Action Manual
Your Leadership Now Leads to Your Leadership Later
References