Coaching a Student Teacher

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Easy to read and implement immediately, Coaching a Student Teacher, the second book of The Cooperating Teacher Series, is a wonderful step-by-step resource to guide teachers in mentoring up-and-coming professionals. After nine years of teaching, I mentored my first student teacher this year and was thankful to have the support and guidance of this book! -- Lindsey Poole, cooperating teacher, high school special education teacher Henry and Weber do a masterful job at weaving together a concrete mini-guide that directly supports key practices associated with the cooperating teacher's role in supervision and mentoring of the developing pre-service teacher. This "little book" unpacks the foundational knowledge and skill-set needed for cooperating teachers to provide the right context for engaging student teachers in reflecting on and growing from their teaching experience through communication, observation, and discourse strategies. In this book, cooperating teachers will find answers to common questions related to: observation and conferencing strategies, choices for their preferred supervisory approach to conferencing, as well as options for student teacher participation in the classroom and the school. Weber and Henry clearly present effective pedagogy for coaching of the teacher candidate! -- Patricia Tate, PhD, executive director, office of professional preparation and accreditation,