Full Description
Preparing Change Agents for the Classroom: From Paradigm to Practice is for teacher educators who want to address the need for classroom teachers who know how students learn and how to teach to support this learning. The social constructivist paradigm can be instrumental in engaging children as well as teacher candidates in the critical-thinking, inquiry-based, knowledge construction that is learning. The practical applications of constructivist teaching and true-life "Turning Points" included in this book can be used to provide the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that candidates need to cultivate their own learning in the college/university classroom, and in turn, foster the learning of their future students.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1Preparing Change Agents for the Classroom using the Constructivist Paradigm
Jill E. Cole
Turning PointFrom Preservice to Inservice
Kristin Thompson
Chapter 2Beyond the Algorithm: Changing Teacher Candidates' Learning Experiences with Math
B. Patricia Patterson
Turning PointThe Spelling Test
Paula Daniels
Chapter 3Writing Workshop for Teacher Candidates
Jill E. Cole
Turning PointLost and Found
Jamie Whitman-Smithe
Chapter 4Crafting Inquiry in the Preservice Classroom: Tensions and Possibilities
Leah T. Lembo
Turning PointChange of Plans
Patti L. Sandy
Chapter 5Changing Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Science and Science
Teaching through Guided Nature Journaling
B. Patricia Patterson
Turning PointLeaf Collecting
Ivey Mask
Chapter 6Story in the Classroom
Jamie Whitman-Smithe
Turning PointTeaching Molly
Megan Stoffa
Chapter 7Helping Teacher Candidates Develop the Skills of Reflective PractitionersMarcia Lawton
Closing
About the Contributors
