Strategies for Successful Student Teaching: A Guide to Student Teaching, the Job Search, and Your First Classroom - Softcover

Pelletier Radford, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137059485 ISBN 13: 9780137059485

Publisher: Pearson, 2012

Synopsis

A one-of-a-kind guide for student teachers!

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching: A Guide to Student Teaching, the Job Search, and Your First Classroom is a must-have resource for all student teachers. Providing a step-by-step guide that deftly leads teacher candidates through the student teaching process from their last day as a student to their first day as a teacher, it combines classroom prep activities, teaching plans, and opportunities for reflection to ensure that every teacher gets the most out of the student teaching experience and comes away ready and eager to lead their students’ journeys through education. With the help of this practical and activity-based guide, teacher candidates will successfully transition from students to educators, prepared with the skills and practice necessary to lead a classroom, manage student behavior, plan lessons and units, prepare for interviews, achieve professional positions, and continually learn.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Pelletier Radford

is the Program Director for a Transition to Teaching federal grant, which is located in the Center for University, School and Community Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts―Dartmouth. She received her Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1996 where she focused her studies on teacher professional development and the role of the cooperating

teacher in preparing pre-service teachers. In more than twenty years as a public school teacher, she has received numerous teacher leadership awards, among them the prestigious Christa McAuliffe Fellowship sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. She is the author of four books: Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, Strategies for Successful Student Teaching, Touch the Future: TEACH!, and Mentoring in Action:A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Mentors and Their New Teachers. For the past thirteen years, she has worked as the Director of Practicum Experiences and Teacher Induction at Boston College. In her current position at the University of Massachusetts, she teaches graduate courses for district mentors and is actively engaged in preparing prospective math and science teachers for New Bedford and Fall River schools.

Visiit carolpelletierradford.com to learn more.

From the Back Cover

A one-of-a-kind guide for student teachers!

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching: A Guide to Student Teaching, the Job Search, and Your First Classroom is a must-have resource for all student teachers. Providing a step-by-step guide that deftly leads teacher candidates through the student teaching process from their last day as a student to their first day as a teacher, it combines classroom prep activities, teaching plans, and opportunities for reflection to ensure that every teacher gets the most out of the student teaching experience and comes away ready and eager to lead their students’ journeys through education. With the help of this practical and activity-based guide, teacher candidates will successfully transition from students to educators, prepared with the skills and practice necessary to lead a classroom, manage student behavior, plan lessons and units, prepare for interviews, achieve professional positions, and continually learn.

What’s New?

• 2011 INTASC Standards integrated into every chapter, ensuring that teacher prep meets national standards.
• Updated PLAN pages that offer tips for classroom planning.
• CONNECT pages now offer a range of resources for further learning and building relationships with parents and communities.
• ACTivities are linked to key questions designed to help students focus on practice in areas where they need more support.
• REFLECT and SET GOALS pages conclude each chapter, offering final reflections, testing knowledge, and suggesting artifacts to include in a teaching portfolio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0137059485
• ISBN 13: 9780137059485
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288