Developing Critical Skills: Interactive Exercises for Pre-service Teachers

Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teachers focuses on the identification and development of the essential skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective teacher and guides teacher candidates to self-assess in each area. This workbook is designed for EPPs who strive to emphasize that teaching is a profession that require distinctive skills and dispositions.

Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teacers:

• provides numerous activities and exercises that refine candidates’ skills and facilitate self-assessment and reflection in each of the target areas. 
• can be used at multiple junctures in an educator preparation program: induction, field experience, and student teaching. 
• includes writing prompts and speaking prompts that are pertinent to pre-service teachers. 
• provides rubrics for the evaluation of oral reading fluency, writing, etc. 
• featuresWebConnect (your EPPs road to certification, state-mandated curriculum standards, etc.) 

Whether entering a program, preparing for field experience, or ‘brushing up’ for the final practicum experience, teacher candidates will find these easy-to-follow exercises informative and empowering.

Teacher educators will appreciate the rubrics and ready-made forms that will be used to address dispositional concerns (tardiness, absenteeism, late work, missing work) in teacher candidates to constructively shape professional behavior.