Stories of Beginning Teachers: First Year Challenges and Beyond (Notre Dame Alliance for Catholic Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026801776X ISBN 13: 9780268017767

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

Synopsis

Stories of Beginning Teachers offers insight into the challenges and triumphs of beginning teachers, presenting both research findings and case studies on the challenges faced by new teachers. More than twenty categories and five hundred specific examples of potential problems and issues are cited in Part 1 of this book. Armed with such useful information about the most frequent, serious, and persistent challenges, Roehrig, Pressley, and Talotta assert, a young educator will be better prepared to teach and more likely to succeed. Part 2 contains stories of the teaching experience of participants in the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. Included are nine vivid stories of the struggles and successes of new teachers reflecting on their first year, as well as sixteen shorter summaries of the daily lives of beginning teachers. Reading this book, a novice teacher will better understand student motivation, student learning, human development, classroom organization, classroom management, assessment techniques, and the administration of schools.

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Review:

"The findings in this book are timely and important. The authors make good use of both primary and secondary sources, and the stories written by the beginning teachers are very appealing. - Ann Loranger University of New Hampshire This timely book is a survival kit for beginning teachers. It serves as an excellent contribution to the field of higher education. Stories of Beginning Teachers addresses the complex issues facing educators and schools of education in a distinctive manner. It is an excellent text for training preservice teachers to become reflective practitioners. - Lynn Romeo Monmouth University

About the Author:

ALYSIA D. ROEHRIG is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. MICHAEL PRESSLEY is director of the Master of Education Program, professor of psychology, and Notre Dame Chair in Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books and editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology. DENISE A. TALOTTA teaches at the Marist Brothers International School in Kobe, Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 026801776X
• ISBN 13: 9780268017767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 245
• Editor: Roehrig Alysia, Pressley Michael, Talotta Denise A.