Teacher Training : A Reference Handbook (1)
ISBN: 9781576077528
Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / ABC-CLIO
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time
Subjects: Teachers : Training of : United States : Handbooks manuals etc.;

A critical and thought-provoking examination of the teaching profession, from academic preparation and training to opportunities for professional advancement. Even if math teachers had degrees in mathematics and more physics teachers majored or minored in physics, how would that address behavioral problems, emotionally disturbed children, apathetic parents, and decaying school buildings? How would requiring teachers to have degrees in their content areas attract better-qualified teachers? In what ways would such degrees make teachers better qualified and suited for classrooms?In this volume, education professor Dave Pushkin, a former high school and community college chemistry and physics teacher, probes beneath the surface of easy answers to determine what the problem with education really is. Tired of being stressed out and burned out doing things he was never trained to do, he examines everything from student teaching and certification to hiring and teaching outside one's own field.

Dr. Pushkin was a high school and community college chemistry and physics teacher in the Tampa Bay, Florida, region from 1985 to 1993 before moving on to Penn State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he was a chemistry and physics professor at the university level in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Since 1999, he has served as an education professor in New York City, New Jersey, and Delaware, working with both prospective and veteran teachers and teaching courses related to science instruction, curriculum theory, and educational research. He has worked with students pursuing their bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees

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