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Direct linkHall, Irene, Ed.; Campbell, Carolyn H., Ed.; Miech, Edward J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 1997
In this remarkable collection of articles, teachers reflect on the complex worlds of their classrooms to gain a better understanding of their students, themselves, and the act of teaching. The contributors to Class Acts represent a diversity of backgrounds, subjects, grade levels, and educational philosophies. But they share a common approach:…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Student Relationship, Place Based Education
Andre, Rae, Ed.; Frost, Peter J., Ed. – 1997
This collection of 19 essays is organized into a narrative of the teaching-research dilemma. The essays include: (1) "Struggling With Balance" (Cynthia V. Fukami); (2) "My Career as a Teacher: Promise, Failure, Redemption" (Howard E. Aldrich); (3) "Teaching and Research: A Puzzling Dichotomy" (Barbara A. Gutek); (4)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education
Ashcroft, Kate; Foreman-Peck, Lorraine – 1994
This book addresses the practical management of higher education teaching and learning as it is related to any subject. The volume stresses principles of the reflective practitioner model--open-mindedness, responsibility, and wholeheartedness. Chapter 1 introduces the book and its concept of teaching as a management process. Chapter 2 focuses on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Zehm, Stanley J.; Kottler, Jeffrey A. – 1993
This volume lays out the human factors involved in effective teaching and encourages both future teachers and current practitioners to cultivate the personal and professional qualities found in the kind of teachers they want to be. The single most important factor in a teacher's effectiveness is described as his or her unique style of interaction…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teachers
Brubacher, John W.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of this book is to help teacher education students and experienced teachers to develop not only an understanding of the nature of "reflective practice" but also the attitudes and skills that such an approach to teaching requires. Case studies illustrate many difficult experiences teachers encounter; each chapter begins with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics
Rubenstein, Rheta N., Ed.; Bright, George W., Ed. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2004
Teaching is a complex, ongoing endeavor that involves a myriad of decisions. NCTM's Sixty-Sixth Yearbook is organized around three aspects of teaching: foundations for teaching, the enactment of teaching, and the support of teaching nurtured in preservice education and strengthened throughout a teacher's career. The accompanying professional…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Teaching Models, Educational Change
