Into the classroom
Subtitle: a practical guide for starting student teaching
By: Rosalyn McKeown
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781572338166
Subjects: Student teaching
Description: "Student teaching can be an endeavor fraught with anxiety. Those entering the classroom for the first time face the daunting challenge of translating coursework on the theory of teaching into real-world experience. Common questions for anxious student teachers include: Will I be a good teacher? Will I ever get control of my classroom? How can I do all of this grading and plan for next week at the same time? This helpful guide by teacher educator Rosalyn McKeown offers practical suggestions for student teachers, interns, and teacher candidates just starting out in a secondary school classroom. This easy-to-read text enables new educators to rapidly advance their teaching skills early in their pre-service experiences.

After exploring the pitfalls of inexperience and providing helpful guidance on maintaining order in the classroom, McKeown focuses on teaching skills. She advises readers on writing objectives and lesson plans, creating interesting ways to start and end class, introducing variety into the classroom, lecturing, asking meaningful questions, and using visual aids. Among the other topics discussed are setting up a classroom, recognizing differences in learning styles, and developing an individual teaching style. Sidebars scattered throughout the text offer useful advice on everything from how to deal with stage fright and distracting noises from outside, to planning for block scheduling and avoiding the attributes of a boring teacher."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Twelve years as a student do not prepare you to be a teacher; title: Common pitfalls of inexperience; title: Order in the classroom: managing common discipline problems; title: Ready, aim, teach: writing objectives and lesson plans; title: Great beginnings and endings; title: Instructional strategies and techniques: introducing variety; title: Lecture, if you must; title: Models: the memorable part of the lesson; title: Asking questions; title: Little thoughts and big thoughts; title: Discussions and interactive teaching; title: Working with visual aids; title: Boring teachers; title: Not everyone learns the same way you do; title: Be kind; title: Tensions of practice teaching; title: Organizing your room to suit your needs; title: Developing your own teaching style.