Student Teaching: A Process Approach to Reflective Practice

For Student Teaching, Internship and Methods of Teaching courses; and, Field Experiences. Intended to strengthen the link between coursework and field experiences, this highly-interactive text encourages beginning teachers to develop and implement best practices with an emphasis on reflection, assessment, classroom management, diversity, and technology. The authors' unique process approach is presented through "double focus" chapters: personal experience and applications of best practice in teaching. Encourages reflective learning and leads to the next level of development in the progression to becoming an effective professional teacher. With its emphasis on creating a professional life as a reflective educator, and its solid grounding in INTASC standards, this text will serve as a reference for students long after they've left the course and into daily teaching experience.