Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

Contributions by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein, Lace Marie Brogden, Valerie B. Brown-Schild, Julie Causton-Theoharis, Lorenzo Cherubini, Ethel Chikapa, Anne Chodakowski, Charles R. Coble, Soria E. Colomer, James Cope, Joseph Corriero, Jacqueline Darvin, Kieran Egan, Andrew Ferdinandi, Doug Fisher, Mary Ellen Freeley, Thomas R. Guskey PhD, author, consultant, and Professor Emeritus, College of Education, Univ, Thomas Hamilton, Victoria Hasko, Lisa B. Hibler, Yi-Ping Huang, Patricia A. Jennings, Beauty Kafuna, Lucy Kapenuka, Laura R. Kates, Tod Kenney, Dawn Kirby, Diane Lapp EdD, Distinguished Professor of Education, San Diego State University and I, Corey S. Mackenzie, Ian Matheson, Mairi McAra, Morva McDonald, Sheryl L. McGlamery, Catherine McTamaney, Brian Mosleley, Liveness Mwanza, Ausman Ngwali, Jana Noel, Amy Palmeri, Nita A. Paris, Susan K. Parry, Paul Pedota, BethA Peery, Patricia A. Poulin, Traci Redish, Lynn Romeo, Tao Rui, Twyla Salm, Mirriam Sherriff, Saundra L. Shillingstad, Elizabeth A. Skinner, Peter Smagorinsky, Geoffrey B. Soloway, Cherry O. Steffen, George Theoharis Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Sharon Walpole, Mark Warner former Governor of Virginia, ThomasDeVere Wolsey, James D. Worsley, Miguel Zavala, Ken Zeichner, Chifundo Ziyaya Edited by Audrey Cohan, Andrea Honigsfeld

Publication date:

16 February 2011

Length of book:

314 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

247x168mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781607095514

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.

Foreword
Preface
Section I: Preservice Teacher Education
1. Mirrors, Maps, and Torchlights: Enacting a Conceptual Framework for Teacher Education
2. "I Would Rather Feel Uncomfortable in an Education Class than at the School Where I Teach": Cultural and Political Vignettes as a Pedagogical Approach in Teacher Education
3. Building a Bridge from the Experiential to the Textual: Preparing Critical Readers for a Complex Teaching Terrain
4. Raising the Bar for 21st Century Teacher Preparation
5. Practice-Based Teaching and Community Field Experiences for Prospective Teachers
6. High Impact Practices and the Preparation of Educators in the New Era
7. Service-Learning as a Vehicle for Examining Assumptions about Culture and Education
8. Modeling Assessment and the Impact on K-16 Student Learning
Section II: Inservice Teacher Education
9. When Mentoring is Not Enough: A Multi-Year Induction Program
10. When All Really Means All: Schools of Promise, Schools of Reform, and Innovative Professional Development
11. Technology on the Frontier of Inservice Teacher Education
12. Teaching Outside the Book: Inservice Teacher Education for a New World
13. Promoting Teachers' Social and Emotional Competencies to Support Performance and Reduce Burnout
14. From Muteness to Provocation: An Emerging Developmental Model of Teacher Leadership
Section III: Collaborative Teacher Education Practices
15. Grow Your Own Teachers: Community-Based Change in Teacher Education
16. Cooking "Hickory Soup" and Other Ways to Develop Successful Interprofessional Internships for Preservice Teachers
17. Foreign Language Teacher Technology Education: Innovation Through Social Networking
18. School-Community Based Urban Teacher Education as a Voice for the Community
19. The Association of Raza Educators: Community-Based Teacher Organizing and the Development of Alternative Forms of Teacher Collaboration
20. School Improvement: Collaboration for Success
Section IV: Global Perspectives on Teacher Education
21. Preparing New Teachers for the Full Catastrophe of the 21st Century Classroom: Integrating Mindfulness Training into Initial Teacher Education
22. Engaging Imaginations and Emotions in Preservice Teacher Education
23. Teacher Induction in Scotland: Once Little Short of Scandalous, Now World Class
24. Cooperating Across Cultures: Professional Development in a Chinese Minority Region
25. Breaking the Mold to Mend the Wounds: An Innovative Model of Collaborative Practice to Further Aboriginal Student Learning
26.Participatory Action Research for Teacher Development in Malawi
Afterword

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education addresses enduring issues of teachers' professional learning. Teachers' learning is intimately connected with the learning of their students and how to prepare and support teachers in their work in increasingly diverse and challenging classrooms is of fundamental importance. It has never been more so when accountability mechanisms can constrain teacher creativity. This volume explores questions about the relationship of theory and practice and is concerned about the purposes of education as well as the best ways to help teachers think about and practice their teaching. These are global issues and it is heartening to see contributions from around the world from a range of perspectives.