Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teachers
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 322
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 322
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Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teachers focuses on the identification and development of the essential skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective teacher and guides teacher candidates to self-assess in each area. This workbook is designed for EPPs who strive to emphasize that teaching is a profession that require distinctive skills and dispositions.
Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teacers:
- provides numerous activities and exercises that refine candidates’ skills and facilitate self-assessment and reflection in each of the target areas.
- can be used at multiple junctures in an educator preparation program: induction, field experience, and student teaching.
- includes writing prompts and speaking prompts that are pertinent to pre-service teachers.
- provides rubrics for the evaluation of oral reading fluency, writing, etc.
- featuresWebConnect (your EPPs road to certification, state-mandated curriculum standards, etc.)
Whether entering a program, preparing for field experience, or ‘brushing up’ for the final practicum experience, teacher candidates will find these easy-to-follow exercises informative and empowering.
Teacher educators will appreciate the rubrics and ready-made forms that will be used to address dispositional concerns (tardiness, absenteeism, late work, missing work) in teacher candidates to constructively shape professional behavior.
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter ONE- Precepts of Professionalism
Guidelines for Professional Communication
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Code of Ethics
Professional Appearance and Demeanor
Chapter TWO- Oral Communication
Verbal Fillers
Educational Terminology
Chapter THREE- Interpersonal Skills
Nonverbal Communication
Active Listening, Empathy, and Personal Space
Collaboration
Chapter FOUR- Critical thinking and Reflection
Logical Fallacies
Chapter FIVE- Leadership; Four Central Competencies
Ethical Decision Making
Chapter SIX- Putting it All Together
Chapter SEVEN- Literacy Skills
Chapter EIGHT- Professional Knowledge
Curriculum
Lesson Planning
Assessment, Management, and Organization
Chapter NINE- Field Observations and Reflections
Chapter TEN- Dispositions and Documentation
References
An experienced, certified public school teacher, Dr. Ingles taught at the elementary, middle school, and secondary levels before transitioning to higher education. While teaching undergraduate level education courses in the School of Education at Spring Arbor University, Dr. Ingles’s passion for measuring and developing candidates’ dispositions and attributes was ignited. Her subsequent research was a validation study of a structured group interview used to measure teacher candidates’ attributes and dispositions. A summation of that research study was recently published in the Journal of Scholastic Inquiry: Education.
Dr. Ingles’s research on teacher candidate selection criteria also provided the foundation for the transformation of her institution’s teacher candidate admission and induction processes. One of the hallmarks of the transformation was a newly developed induction course, “Critical Skills for Professional Educators,” which replaced the “Introduction to Teaching” course. This professional development workbook is based upon Dr. Ingles’s research and the related strategies she developed to shape candidates’ skills and dispositions.
Dr. Ingles currently serves as the Dean of the School of Educational Leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University. In addition, she serves as a conference speaker and consultant on teacher candidate selection practices, sharing her research at regional and national conferences. Dr. Ingles travels across the country conducting workshops and training sessions for educator preparation providers who are seeking to implement research-based approaches to measuring teacher candidates’ skills and dispositions at the time of admission