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Improving your practicum : a guide to better teaching practice / Geraldine McBurney-Fry
Bib ID 1599088
Format BookBook
Author
McBurney-Fry, Geraldine
 
Edition 2nd ed. 
Description Katoomba, N.S.W. : Social Science Press, 2002 
xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 187663345X (pbk.)  187663345X  187663345X (pbk.) 
Summary

This book provides an insightful analysis into the challenges facing teacher education students during Practicum. It has been written for students in all teacher education programs - early childhood, primary and secondary - and provides a comprehensive coverage of the philosophical issues as well as the daily events encountered by students and their co-operating teachings. This second edition provides specific strategies for identifying and dealing with the diverse nature of today's classrooms and early childhood centres, encouraging students to focus upon and maximise positive outcomes during their Practicum. It includes a tought provoking introduction to the nature of education in contemporary society, allowing students to determine their own personal philosophy of teaching and learning.

Full contents
  • 1. Society and education
  • 2. The business of teaching
  • 3. Understanding learning
  • 4. Developing planning and presentation skills
  • 5. Building positive classroom management
  • 6. Catering to individual differences
  • 7. Student evaluation
  • 8. Supervision in practicum
  • 9. Understanding ethical practice.
 
Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [215]-227.

Subjects Teachers - Training of.  |  Student teaching.  |  Lesson planning.
Available From Social Science Press, PO Box 624, KATOOMBA NSW 2780 

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