Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9783639102529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 96 str.

Rebecca Rockey

Opis

In order to decrease present rates of teacher attrition a paradigm shift must occur. Instead of teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts working in isolation, a united front is needed to combat this difficult problem.This book offers teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts, suggestions and research on how and why they need to work together to produce better-prepared teachers in the 21st Century. Students in the 21st Century are quite different from those of the past. Family structure, inclusion practices, and migrant family patterns have created a new classroom environment that also changes traditional student social patterns, and therefore the way teachers must view social curriculum. Students often come to school lacking structure, self-discipline, and self-control. Teaching discipline therefore is an essential aspect of school curriculum in the present age. We can no longer assume all children come to school ready and prepared to learn.

O autorze

Rebecca Rockey, D.ED. has been teaching elementary school for 10
years, higher education for 4 years, and is a Responsive
Classroom trainer for the Butler Area School District in
Pennsylvania. She has presented Classroom Management Seminars at
Slippery Rock University, Edinboro University, and Gannon
University.