Teaching at Work / / edited by Yeping Li, Janet Hammer.

• Superior document: Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education
• HerausgeberIn: Li, Yeping.; Hammer, Janet.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book presents a new and important scholarship on teaching, at the time when studies on teaching in teacher education are long overdue. This book is designed to put together such a set of chapters contributed by those teacher educators who are not only taking teaching as a professional practice, but also upholding teaching improvement as a scholarly pursuit that needs collaboration and systematic studies. Teaching at Work refers to not only the importance of effective teaching in K-12 classrooms and teacher preparation, but also the importance of taking teaching and its improvement as a subject of scholarly studies. In the field of teacher preparation, this book aims to make timely knowledge contribution and is positioned to stimulate further discussion and exploration on teaching and its improvement. The book contains 13 chapters by 35 scholars in the United States. This collection presents many innovative teaching practices and approaches as well as provides new insights into this topic of interest to teacher educators, researchers, and graduate students who wish to learn about various teaching approaches and practices for advancing teacher preparation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Yeping Li and Janet Hammer -- Teaching at Work / Yeping Li and Janet Hammer -- Research-Based Approaches for Identifying and Assessing Effective Teaching Practices / Hersh C. Waxman , Nancy Dubinski Weber , Susana E. Franco-Fuenmayor and Kayla B. Rollins -- Connecting Research and Practice through Teacher Knowledge / Emily Binks-Cantrell and R. Malatesha Joshi -- Preservice Teachers’ Problem-Solving Lesson Engagement and Knowledge and Beliefs about Teaching for Equity / Trina J. Davis , Gerald Kulm , Ayse Tugba Oner , S. Enrico P. Indiogine , Dianne S. Goldsby and Tingting Ma -- Changing Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Linguistic Diversity by Introducing a World Englishes Perspective / Zohreh R. Eslami , Edie Cassell and Burcu Ates -- Subtracting Stereotypes through Studying Abroad / Cynthia Boettcher , Janet Hammer and Sunni Sonnenburg -- Preparing Preservice Teachers for Diverse Urban Classrooms / Kamala Williams and Norvella Carter -- Modeling the “Write” Teaching Practices / Tracey S. Hodges , Erin McTigue , April G. Douglass , Nancy Dubinski Weber , Katherine Landau Wright and Anna de La Garza -- Minding the Gap / Katherine Landau Wright , Tracey S. Hodges , Amanda D. Franks , Erin McTigue and April G. Douglass -- Technology Integration and Preservice Teachers: Theory and Practice / Robin Rackley and Radhika Viruru -- The Examined Life / Lynne Masel Walters , Martha R. Green , Timothy N. Walters and Liangyan Wang -- Mentoring Viewed through an Open Classroom Experience / Dianne S. Goldsby and Mary Figuero-Charles -- Quality Teaching and Teacher Preparation / Douglas J. Palmer -- Index / Yeping Li and Janet Hammer.