Full Description
Professional experience is central in teacher preparation. In Teaching and Communicating, students are equipped with all the skills they need to make the most of this experience. This practical and user-friendly text can be used by preservice teachers, supervisors, mentors, and academics involved in school placement programmes. The teacher must engage and interact with children, their parents, other members of the profession, other professionals and the broader community in a variety of ways. This book draws on a wealth of research, scholarship and the practical experiences of the authors to rethink both the connection between teaching and communicating as well as the nature and lived experiences of professional experience as a core dimension of pre service teacher education.
Contents
CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART 1. COMMUNICATING IN EDUCATION; 1 SETTING THE SCENE: THE CURRENT TEACHER EDUCATION CONTEXT; 2 THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION; 3 LEARNING TO LEARN THROUGH PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES; 4 FROM PRACTICE TEACHING TO PRACTICUM TO PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES; 5 TEACHERS AS LEARNERS; 6 ETHICAL COMMUNICATION IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS; 7 COMMUNICATING INCLUSIVELY; PART 2. TEACHING AND COMMUNICATION; 8 PREPARING LESSON PLANS, PROGRAMS, UNITS, AND DAY BOOKS; 9 HELPING PRESERVICE TEACHERS LEARN TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY IN SCHOOL CONTEXTS; 10 COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY IN CLASSROOMS: USING VOICE AND BODY LANGUAGE; 11 ENHANCING COMMUNICATION WITH EFFECTIVE RESOURCES; 12 'DON'T SMILE 'TILL EASTER': CREATING A POSITIVE CLASSROOM LEARNING COMMUNITY; 13 CONSTRUCTIVE USE OF FEEDBACK IN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE; 14 USING PORTFOLIOS TO COMMUNICATE; 15 COMMUNICATING COLLABORATIVELY WITH PEERS, MENTORS AND SUPERVISORS; PART 3. COMMUNICATION ACROSS DIFFERENCES AND DIVERSITY; 16 COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS, COMMUNITY GROUPS AND SERVICE AGENCIES; 17 COMMUNICATING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN; 18 COMMUNICATING WITH ADOLESCENTS: THROUGH THE MIDDLE YEARS OF SCHOOLING; 19 COMMUNICATING AND SENIOR STUDENTS; 20 UNDERSTANDING LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES; 21 LANGUAGE-BASED LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN THE CLASSROOM; 22 SEEING PRACTICE THROUGH PRACTICE: LEARNING THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH AND ACTION LEARNING; REFERENCES; INDEX
