Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ698817
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1172
Promoting Preservice Teachers' Success in Classroom Management by Leveraging a Local Union's Resources: A Professional Development School Initiative
Siebert, Cathy J.
Education, v125 n3 p385 Spr 2005
Classroom management issues consistently surface as a prevailing concern for novice teachers. Yet when classroom management is incorporated into university teacher education undergraduate courses, it is often perceived as too theoretical or disconnected from the "real world" of classrooms. Embedding attention to classroom management issues in field-based experiences, such as student teaching, may be an optimal time to address preservice teachers' perceived needs in this area of learning to teach. This article describes a Professional Development School initiative that drew on expertise and resources available through the local chapter of the professional organization (union). Through collaboration and the leveraging of resources, initiatives such as this one provide rich avenues for enhancing the learning of preservice teachers.
Descriptors: Unions, Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Professional Development Schools, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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