Synopsis
Since the time the original edition of Developing a Teaching Style was published, dramatic changes have occurred in elementary education across the country. Increasingly, schools find it necessary to respond to intense societal issues, from those that are religious and racial to those involving sexual discrimination and violence. Society now demands that teachers be responsible not only for teaching academic skills but also for building social skills. Prospective teachers can expect to enter the workforce pressured by a growing accountability for academic content and assessment. Standards-based education has become the norm. The authors of the second edition have addressed all these issues. New chapters on cooperative learning and educating for diversity provide invaluable information for the elementary teacher on how to prepare children to function as adults in an increasingly multicultural workplace. Other new topics include multiple intelligences, constructivism, the learning cycle, and authentic and performance assessments. Each chapter presents the reader with choices that elementary teachers must make throughout their teaching careers. The book encourages beginning teachers to reflect on these choices and how they relate to their own personalities and to the backgrounds of their students in order to help them decide what kinds of instructional settings are most compatible with their own professional orientation.
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From the Publisher
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Kougl, Communicating in the Classroom (ISBN 0881339105) and Lemlech, Classroom Management: Methods and Techniques for Elementary and Secondary Teachers, Third Edition (ISBN 1577660331).
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