Full Description
Designing your Teaching Life is written for student teachers and their program-based mentors. This book provides engaging and detailed guidance for making the most out of the student teaching experience and overcoming the stressful situations and challenges that can arise during student teaching in today's fast-paced, diverse, and evidence-based classrooms. Designing your Teaching Life supports the student teacher to organize his/her experience, build positive relationships with mentors and students, design high quality plans and instruction, and use assessment data to inform teaching and learning. Filled with narratives, snapshots, examples, questions, templates, and advice from program and school-based mentors as well as former student teachers, the book will support student teachers working in a range of classrooms, including physical education. In addition, advice about the edTPA is woven throughout the chapters to support student teachers preparing for this assessment. Reading this book will provide the student teacher the guidance he or she needs to design a rewarding and successful teaching life.
Contents
Foreword: Ruth Vinz
Preface: Designing your teaching life
Chapter 1: Planning for a successful student teaching experience
Chapter 2: Working with your program-based mentor
Chapter 3: Working with key school stakeholders
Chapter 4: Designing high quality lesson plans
Chapter 5: Designing a range of high quality assessments
Chapter 6: Designing high quality instruction
Chapter 7: Analyzing and acting on assessment data
Chapter 8: Composing a strong, aligned edTPA
Resources: Supporting your student teaching with further reading
