The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Reflective Practice

For Introduction to Education and Foundations of Education courses. Lively and reader-friendly, this thoughtful text paints a truly realistic picture of teaching. Comprehensive coverage explores teaching as a profession, simultaneously addressing the fundamentals while encouraging students to "try on" the role to see how well it "fits." Chapter after chapter, a continuous process of guided reflection helps students to increase their understanding of the joys and challenges of the profession and encourages them to carefully ponder their place in it. In fact, no other text so carefully takes the students through the process of considering their life experience, knowledge, research, and situation in order to make an informed decision about their path in life.

With his new text, The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Reflective Practice, Michael Henniger marries the core foundations of education with the process of reflection for extremely personalized student learning and professional development. What makes this book so special, and how will Michael Henniger's theme of reflective practice benefit you and your students?

Decision Making

Reflection is presented as a critical process that informs decision making and involves experience, research, discussion, and implementation. Reflective Journey questions embedded in the narrative and features such as Engage in the Debate, Reflect on Diversity, and ABC News video segments Education in the News and Master Teacher Series guide students to research, reflect on, and think critically about a concept, situation, or issue.

Personalization

Questions and activities encourage students to explore their own experiences and internalize the chapter content. Features that encourage reflection and personalized learning include Explore Your Beliefs, Focus Questions and Chapter Scenarios, along with the Reflective Journey: Online Journal, Field Experience, and Building Your Portfolio activities.

Professionalism

The Views from the Classroom feature gives students the opportunity to hear directly from teachers in the field about why they chose teaching as a career and what makes it worth all the effort it takes to be successful. The Praxis Test Preparation Activities and INTASC-aligned Building Your Portfolio features at the end of each chapter and Chapter 15: The First Years and Beyond, ensure that students leave prepared to begin their teaching careers as reflective practitioners.