Taking a critical reflection approach, this book informs fledgling teachers about the culture of the community, the school, home cultures, interests, learning styles, and the abilities of their future students. Exercises within the book and the innovative Virtual Classroom website encourage teaching students to watch, record best practice, and draw upon sound theoretical knowledge to create engaging teaching practices.

Learning to Teach: New Times, New Practices

Education & Teaching

Blaise, Mindy

Dole, Shelley

Malone, Karen

Latham, Gloria

Faulkner, Julie

Lang, Josephine

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

Learning to Teach encourages the students to engage in critical reflection of teaching practices by immersing themselves in the Lathner Primary virtual school. The reader is positioned as a first year teacher who embarks on a new career at Lathner Primary. They work with Anna Jones, her class, and the other teachers around Lathner to help develop their ability to analyze scenarios and critically reflect on their own unexamined assumptions. Exercises within the book combine with other learning tools such as assorted documents from Lathner, including journal entries and letters from the school, 'Pause, Reflect, Record' and 'Taking Action' sections to assist students to practice their classroom skills. There are also notes from the authors discussing their perspectives and experiences of the subject matter. There are extensive resources to use with the book available at http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/lathnervirtualschool/.

Learning To Teach: New Times, New Practices

Learning to Teach in the Early Years Classroom helps teacher education students understand the complexities of teaching in early years' classrooms. It integrates research and theory with practice through vignettes, based on authentic classroom case studies, in order to show students how educators make decisions and achieve expected outcomes. Students are further encouraged to examine teaching practices through the experiences of Sam Davis, an imagined teacher of Prep/Grade 1, in the Junior Primary team at Aubrey Primary School. Engaging and analytical the book gives voice to the many stakeholders involved in a child's development: from principles to teachers; from families and children of diverse backgrounds to pre-service teachers on field placement.

Learning to Teach in the Early Years Classroom

Politics & Social Sciences

Nuttal, Joce

Social Sciences

Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era (Contesting Early Childhood)

As the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate challenges require new ways of thinking about how humans can live better with the world. This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making. Exploring the ways children can learn with weather, this book for researchers and advanced students, works with the pedagogical potential in children's relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.

Rooney, Tonya

Routledge

Playing It Straight (Changing Images of Early Childhood)

In particular, this book uses alternative theoretical perspectives to focus on how young children are 'doing' gender in kindergarten classroom. Rather than relying exclusively on biological and socialization theories of gender construction, Blaise breaks down theoretical barriers with new understandings of how gender is socially and politically constructed by young children.

Playing It Straight: Uncovering Gender Discourse in the Early Childhood Classroom (Changing Images of Early Childhood)

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