Student teaching: early childhood practicum guide

This comprehensive text presents up-to-date research and "how to's" for thoseenrolled in an early childhood student teaching practicum course. It clearly explains your professional duties and responsibilities as a student teacher, the mechanics of hands-on teaching under the guidance of a cooperating teacher,and your interactions with your college course supervisor(s). Chapters are designed to encourage contemplative and reflective thought as you develop an understanding of professionally accepted practice, ethics, classroom management, and individualized and group program planning and instruction. Communication skills that typify effective team teaching and reduce common classroom problemsduring student teaching are described and detailed. Current practices relatedto special-needs children and infant-toddler classroom placement are addressed, as is the development of school-home partnerships that enhance children's life-long learning and educational success. Throughout, case studies and examples illustrate real-life situations and children that other student teachers have encountered. INDICE: 1. Introduction to Student Teaching Practicum. 2. A Student Teacher's Values and Developing Teaching Style. 3. Being Observed: Discovering Your Competencies. 4. Instructional Planning. 5. Classroom Management: Beyond Discipline. 6. Understanding Behavior. 7, Working with Children with Special Needs.8. Common Problems of Student Teachers. 9. Student Teachers and Families. 10.Quality Programs. 11. Professional Growth and Employment. 12. Student Teaching with Infants and Toddlers.

• ISBN: 978-0-8400-3296-6
• Editorial: Wadsworth
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés