Working with Student Teachers

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Morehead, Lyman, and Foyle have been leading authorities on successful practices for working with student teachers for well over two decades! Each of these authors has devoted his career to education and to educating individuals who wish to enter the teaching profession. They understand the complex role of teacher preparation through their professional experiences as P-12 school teachers and administrators, and as faculty members and administrators in university teacher preparation. 'Working with StudentTeachers' is a definitive guide for cooperating teachers and university faculty who help mold preservice teachers into well-prepared P-12 classroom teachers. The authors provide specific strategies for effective and supportive supervision; working with challenging student teachers; insuring success in classrooms with a diverse student population; and ongoing communication between the cooperating teacher or university supervisor and the preservice teacher. Literally hundreds of individuals throughout the United States and internationally have participated in workshops focusing on Working with Student Teachers. These participants praise the clarity and relevance of the topics addressed in this book. I know you will find the topics addressed to be a po -- Tes Mehring, provost/vice president for academic affairs at Emporia State University in Kansas Working with Student Teachers: Getting and Giving the Best provides both a conceptual framework of the student teacher-mentor relationship and a step-by-step guide for the mentor on how to deal with student teachers. This guide is made up of strategies mentors can use for dealing with issues and questions that are common in student teaching: relationship building, sequencing the clinical experience, helping the student teacher with diverse populations, dealing with both incompetent and excellent student teachers, and many other situations that can, and often do, occur. I found these techniques and suggestions to be both effective and practical. This second edition adds two timely chapters. The first deals with building and maintaining partnershipscapable of improving the clinical experience. The second deals specifically with program assessments, an important addition in this time of accountability. I intend to keep this book close at hand when supervising my next student teachers.. -- Donald D. Luck, professor of education at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee Working with Student Teachers: Getting and Giving the Best provides both a conceptual framework of the student teacher-mentor relationship and a step-by-step guide for the mentor on how to deal with student teachers. This guide is made up of strategies mentors can use for dealing with issues and questions that are common in student teaching: relationship building, sequencing the clinical experience, helping the student teacher with diverse populations, dealing with both incompetent and excellent student teachers, and many other situations that can, and often do, occur. I found these techniques and suggestions to be both effective and practical. This second edition adds two timely chapters. The first deals with building and maintaining partnerships capable of improving the clinical experience. The second deals specifically with program assessments, an important addition in this time of accountability. I intend to keep this book close at hand when supervising my next student teachers. -- Donald D. Luck, professor of education at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee Morehead, Lyman, and Foyle have been leading authorities on successful practices for working with student teachers for well over two decades! Each of these authors has devoted his career to education and to educating individuals who wish to enter the teaching profession. They understand the complex role of teacher preparation through their professional experiences as P-12 school teachers and administrators, and as faculty members and administrators in university teacher preparation. 'Working with Student Teachers' is a definitive guide for cooperating teachers and university faculty who help mold preservice teachers into well-prepared P-12 classroom teachers. The authors provide specific strategies for effective and supportive supervision; working with challenging student teachers; insuring success in classrooms with a diverse student population; and ongoing communication between the cooperating teacher or university supervisor and the preservice teacher. Literally hundreds of individuals throughout the United States and internationally have participated in workshops focusing on Working with Student Teachers. These participants praise the clarity and relevance of the topics addressed in this book. I know you will find the topics addressed to be a positive resource if you are working with student teachers! -- Tes Mehring, provost/vice president for academic affairs at Emporia State University in Kansas