Walking the Talk:
Putting Theory Into Practice
Walking the Talk: Putting Theory Into
Practice
Warnie
Richardson and Carole
Richardson
Within these pages, the stories told by these preservice educators invite us to understand the impact that personal knowlege has on what we teach and why we teach the way we do. As stories of professional practice and personal experience intertwine with the questions we continue to ask of ourselves and of our students, one question in particfular is highlighted again and again: How does our life experince continue to shape who we are as teachers? We believe that, in the stories collected here, this vitally important question is addressed sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly, but always honestly and passionately by twenty-five experienced and dedicatoed educators.
Contents:
Foreword – Dennis Mock
Introduction
Real Teachers Don't Teach Subjects – Jennifer Barnett
Let Me Tell You a Story – Dean B. Berry
Teaching Curriculum Studies Music to Primary/Junior Teacher Candidates
– Wynne Blair
Windows of Opportunity – Darlene Brackenreed
Getting Up Near the Teacher: Teaching From Who I Am – Terry Campbell
The Importance of Confusion in Curriculum Development – Kurt Clausen
A Paradigm Shift – Julie Corkett
Teaching Curriculum Methods: Instructional Techniques – Ray Davis
"What's It All About, Alfie?": Developing a Personal Philosophy
of Teaching – Todd A. Horton
First and Lasting Impressions: Teaching Future Science Teachers How to
Teach Science – Gerald Laronde
I Too Was On a Journey – John S. Long
Balancing the Teaching of Math Education: Understanding of Self, Problem
Solving, and the Need to Survive as a Preservice Teacher – Mike McCabe
How to be an Effective Teacher of Senior English – Janet McIntosh
Art Education for the Generalist Elementary Classroom Teacher – James
A. Mroczkowski
Changing the Face of Physical Education – Barbara Olmstead
Reflections on the Importance of the Purpose of Education and the Role
of Teachers – Michael Parr
Just Like Frederick Literacy Journeys into Another Time, Another Place
– Michelann Parr
Teaching Music Education – Sandra Reid
The Democratic Teacher – Carlo Ricci
Tuning Our Souls: Celebrating the Courage to Sing Our Own Songs –
Carole Richardson
What's So Special About Special Education? – Warnie Richardson
The Graduate Seminar – Heather M. Tintoul
Classroom Management: A Recumbent View – Thomas G. Ryan
The Production of Scientists, or Maybe Teachers of Science – Jeff
Scott
Preaching What I Practiced: From Practitioner to Professor – Maria
Cantalini-Williams
Afterward
978-1-55059-361-7, 2008, 6x9, pb., 196 pg. $24.95
