1st Edition

Finding a Voice While Learning to Teach Others' Voices Can Help You Find Your Own

Edited By Derek Featherstone, Hugh Munby, Tom Russell Copyright 1997
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of writings from newly qualified teachers describes the joys, challenges, tensions and frustrations of their earliest teaching experiences. The book moves from short sketches of classroom experiences to broader views of the student teaching experience and the initial teaching years.

    Learning to teach - the learning is in the experience; common themes in learning to teach; the personal nature of teaching and learning experiences; voices from three weeks of teaching; voices from five weeks of teaching; sink or swim? voices of extended experiences, Members of the 1996 Queen's Waterloo Science Group; learning to teach - a story of five crises, Kevin Smith; finding my voice as critical friends - helping students find critical voices, Derek Featherstone and Grade 10 science students; voices of critical friends reflecting on teaching and learning experiences, Peter Chin et al.

    Biography

    Derek Featherstone, Hugh Munby, Tom Russell