1st Edition

Learning to Teach in Urban Schools The Transition from Preparation to Practice

By Etta R. Hollins Copyright 2012
    120 Pages
    by Routledge

    118 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about the transition from teacher preparation to teaching practice in urban school settings. It provides a clear presentation of the challenges, resources, and opportunities for learning to teach in urban schools; examples of the experiences, perceptions, and practices of teachers who are effective in urban schools and those who are not; a detailed account of the journey of a team of teachers who transformed their practice to improve learning in a low performing urban school; an approach that can be used by novice teachers in joining a teacher community and making the transition from preparation to practice; and perspective on leadership that can be used to create a context for transforming teacher professional development in an urban school district. Learning to Teach in Urban Schools offers rare insight into how teachers can transform their own practice and in the process, transform the culture of low performing urban schools.

    1. Challenges, Opportunities, and Possibilities for Learning to Teach in Urban Schools 2 Developing a Perspective and Process for Learning to Teach in Urban Schools 3. The Journey to Academic Excellence in Urban Schools 4. The Struggle for Identity in a Teacher Community Kimberly White-Smith 5. The Transition from Preparation to Practice

    Biography

    Etta R. Hollins is Ewing Marion Kauffman Endowed Chair in Urban Teacher Education, University of Missouri–Kansas City.