Constructivist Teaching Strategies: Projects in Teacher Education - Softcover

Jessie C. Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0398072221 ISBN 13: 9780398072223

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

As students prepare to become elementary school teachers, challenges face them from all sides: using new technology, teaching children with special needs, using discipline effectively, and successfully working with parents, to name just a few. Constructivist Teaching Strategies: Projects in Teacher Education provides helpful information from experienced teachers and includes many examples of preservice teachers’ projects, lesson plans, and real-life advice. The book begins with techniques for creating a good classroom dynamic by involving the students themselves as active participants and using their demographics for seating arrangements and effective teaching strategies. Extensively detailed chapters follow on: • teaching students who are members of a racial or

ethnic minority group • classroom management and discipline • using integrated instructional units • creating and using a classroom learning center • using thematic literature sets • teaching with the Internet • involving parents in education • service learning through volunteer work, and • creating a successful teaching portfolio After each chapter, a multitude of references guide readers to related books, journals, and websites for more information on a specific or general topic. This book will be invaluable for preservice teachers, current elementary school teachers facing new situations, and anyone interested in early education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0398072221
• ISBN 13: 9780398072223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217
• Editor: Jessie C. Brown, Arlene Adams