Through Preservice Teachers' Eyes: Exploring Field Experiences Through Narrative and Inquiry

This unique text uses a developmental, reflective, narrative approach to help future teachers develop an understanding of themselves as teachers, the context of schools, students, student behaviors, and their own responses. Written from a developmental standpoint, the text focuses on preservice teachers' self-directed learning and professional development. The role of ongoing inquiry into self, contexts, and relationships is highlighted, beginning with professional identity and the influence of personal history, and moving outward through teaching and learning, to exploration of educational contexts and professional relationships. Through Preservice Teachers' Eyes provides prospective teachers with realistic views of the prospects and problems associated with working in schools, while providing a framework for discussion, critical reflection, and research into teaching practice. It discusses experiences, processes, tools, and practices associated with learning to teach in field settings...to help beginners develop a sense of the possibilities and opportunities for professional development.