Full Description
By applying an auto-ethnographic approach in this volume to share and explore the experiences of prospective teachers as they navigate the preparation and credentialing processes of teacher education, we - as those who have gone before the future educators in this text and those who will come behind them, gain first hand insights from these young women and men about what it means and how to better prepare prospective educators to become a teacher against a backdrop of historical inequities in schooling and prepared for the multi-culturally diverse classrooms of today.
Contents
Foreword
Brenda G. Harris
An Example of Critical Teaching Enacted in the Classroom of Luis-Genro Garcia
Notes on the Authors
1 What Is Going on in Teacher Education in the United States
An Introduction
The Educational Testing Complex
A Tale of Two Schools
Through the Fire: This Book Project
The Importance of This Volume
Reading This Book
2 Tried and True Geoffrey Jaynes
3 Bianca: New Footprints on the Well-Trodden Path
The Authorsf Response to Bianca
4 Cecilia: Wisdom Is Earned through Experience
5 Covington: A Journey through the Hundred Acre Wood
The Credential Program: A Journey through the Process
Education and Common Core
Words of Wisdom
Moving through Difficult Situations
The Credential Program and My Ability to Teach
Why I Teach
My Teaching Philosophy: Then and Now
My Experiences: A Learning Curve
My Future Classroom
My Goal as a Teacher: A Conclusion
6 George: The Last 100 Meters
The History Teacher
The Ever-Evolving School
Beginning the Race
Life as a Teacher Candidate
Finishing the Race
7 Hillary: Teaching Is a Lifestyle
8 Jasmime: What Teacher Educators Can Learn from Teacher Candidates
9 Ximaroa: All Things Considered
10 Miquel: The Great Emancipator of Education
11 Owen: Is Math that Terrible?
12 Vijay: Education and the Pursuit of Happiness
13 Wade: A Teacherfs Last Step Before Game Time
14 Mary: The Bell Rings c The Journey Begins
15 Kaitlyn: Three Things I Learned During My Student Teaching Experience
Student Teaching Is Like Living with a Roommate
Learn to Emulate or Do the Opposite of Your Mentor
The Toughest Experiences Present You with the Greatest Learning Opportunities
What It Is All about
16 Lauren and Patricia: An Elementary Prison
17 Jordan and Catherine: Realizations about Classroom Environment
Introduction
Stacy
Mark
John
Jayden
Sean
Marcy
Conclusion
18 Through the Fire: A Critical Race Perspective toward Preparing Critical Educators
Educational Slavery Today
The Good News
Afterword
References
