The fifth updated edition of this Australian text, for becoming a teacher.
Learn from Hall’s inspiring approach and confront the critical issues of race, identity, and equity in education. Here is how the job is performed at the highest level.
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So You Want to Be a Teacher? should be read by anyone considering teaching. Its vignettes are insightful and the questions asked will help readers answer the questions "Do I want to be a teacher?" and, if so, "How do I become one?"
These are vitally important questions for the beginner teacher; questions which are answered in this book through conversational dialogues between a principal, a pre-service teacher and experienced teachers.
How should I develop my own unique teaching signature? These are three of the questions that shape and structure this accessible and helpful guide for people who are moving toward teaching.
This book fits the actual demands." (Dr. Joost Lowyck, Professor Emeritus, former director of the Teacher Education Institute, Leuven University). "This is an original book in a very important area.
This is the ‘gap’ that this research book addresses. Most of the chapters in the book report empirical data, with the exception of two chapters that can be categorized as systematic reviews.
Understanding and using an effective learning process is what enables students to find the motivation to learn for life. This is how teachers who care touch their students' lives, and this is how they contribute to a better world.
Thanks to Gene Mehigan who made suggestions that improved the appendix on teaching reading. Thanks to Shauna Cassidy, Claire Dunne, Joan Kiely, Michael Flannery, Yvonne Higgins, Gerry O'Connell, Julie Uí Choistealbha, ...
Instructional Repertoire Theme – Throughout the book teaching is viewed as an extremely complex activity that requires a repertoire of instructional strategies that, once mastered, can be drawn upon to fit specific classrooms and teaching ...