Education, Higher Education, Psychology, Socialogy

Teacher Renewal: Professional Issues, Personal Choices

Education & Teaching

Schoonmaker, Frances

McConnell-Farmer, Judith L.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

"Growing Up" Teaching: From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

Focusing on personal knowledge and how it influences teacher development, “Growing Up” Teaching follows one teacher, “Kay,” from her years of teacher preparation through her time as a seasoned veteran. What emerges from this intensive 10-year study is a more complete picture of teacher development that will help us to better prepare and support our pre- and inservice teachers. 
Essential reading for everyone who seeks to understand teachers and the profession of teaching, this book offers:
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<li> A holistic view of learning to teach over time that challenges traditional boundaries among pre- and inservice education, curriculum, supervision, administration, staff development, and research. </li>
<li> Insight into many important issues, such as the link between theory and practice, teacher retention, and how to get teachers to change timeworn pedagogical practices. </li>
<li> Concrete examples that show how a teacher’s prior experiences can be brought to the surface and reconstructed―rather than suppressed and viewed as an obstacle to learning.</li>
<li> An integrated approach that looks at one teacher’s personal knowledge about teaching and learning juxtaposed against that of other teachers, including several from China and Japan.</li>
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Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Focusing on personal knowledge and how it influences teacher development, “Growing Up” Teaching follows one teacher, “Kay,” from her years of teacher preparation through her time as a seasoned veteran. What emerges from this intensive 10-year study is a more complete picture of teacher development that will help us to better prepare and support our pre- and inservice teachers. Essential reading for everyone who seeks to understand teachers and the profession of teaching, this book offers: A holistic view of learning to teach over time that challenges traditional boundaries among pre- and inservice education, curriculum, supervision, administration, staff development, and research.  Insight into many important issues, such as the link between theory and practice, teacher retention, and how to get teachers to change timeworn pedagogical practices.  Concrete examples that show how a teacher’s prior experiences can be brought to the surface and reconstructed―rather than suppressed and viewed as an obstacle to learning. An integrated approach that looks at one teacher’s personal knowledge about teaching and learning juxtaposed against that of other teachers, including several from China and Japan.

The Black Alabaster Box (Last Crystal Trilogy)

It had been quiet along the Santa Fe Trail for more than a year when the Stokes Company set out for California, the Willis family among them. A reluctant traveler, young Grace Willis longs for her fortunate, safe, and comfortable life at home. Just as she is learning to negotiate life in a wagon-train, Grace is kidnapped by fellow travellers and taken into Oklahoma Territory. She must decide if she will cave in to despair or muster the courage to run away and search for her parents. Grace finds help in unlikely places. She discovers that there really is such a thing as magic, and there are some things only a child can do.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Auctus Publishers

It had been quiet along the Santa Fe Trail for more than a year when the Stokes Company set out for California, the Willis family among them. A reluctant traveler, young Grace Willis longs for her fortunate, safe, and comfortable life at home. Just as she is learning to negotiate life in a wagon-train, Grace is kidnapped by fellow travellers and taken into Oklahoma Territory. She must decide if she will cave in to despair or muster the courage to run away and search for her parents. Grace finds help in unlikely places. She discovers that there really is such a thing as magic, and there are some things only a child can do.

The Red Abalone Shell

The Red Abalone Shell is the perfect story for any middle grade reader who loves fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, and adventure all in one book. This second book in The Last Crystal Trilogy is the perfect companion to the first book, The Black Alabaster Box, or as a stand-alone novel. The book is set during early 20th century American life. Historical accuracy is obviously paramount to Schoonmaker and lessons on inclusivity and bullying are seamlessly woven in to create a story with rich detail and life lessons. Children won't even realize how much history they are learning while reading this epic tale.

History

Americas

The Last Crystal

When their father is critically wounded in World War II, the four Harrison children take the famous Santa Fe Chief to stay with an uncle in California. Worried about their father and less than enthusiastic about a summer with their boring uncle, the four soon discover that this is no ordinary train trip. In rushing to get off of the train, a passenger whom they have barely met asks them to deliver a message to someone they will meet at one of the train stops-a message critical to the allied effort. Then, by accident, they blunder into a private car where they meet the beautiful and mysterious Celeste. She shows an usual interest in the youngest, Grace. When the train breaks down in the desert, Celeste lures them to her car. Her plans become clear. She wants to send Grace on a quest to find a crystal holding water from the beginning of time, water set aside for the healing of the earth. Celeste says it will heal their father, but they suspect that she wants it for herself. In trying to escape her, they leap from the train only to discover themselves in the prehistoric West. Their only hope of return is to find the crystal. But to do so, they have to cross thousands of miles of wilderness. They have nothing but each other, their wits, and a map than only Grace can read.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer

Historical Fiction

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Teacher Renewal: Professional Issues, Personal Choices

"Growing Up" Teaching: From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

"Growing Up" Teaching: From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

The Black Alabaster Box (Last Crystal Trilogy)

The Black Alabaster Box (Last Crystal Trilogy)

The Red Abalone Shell

The Red Abalone Shell

The Last Crystal

The Last Crystal

Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer