Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for the 21st Century

In order to decrease present rates of teacher
attrition a paradigm shift must occur. Instead of
teacher educators, teacher education programs, and
school districts working in isolation, a united front
is needed to combat this difficult problem. This book
offers teacher educators, teacher education programs,
and school districts, suggestions and research on how
and why they need to work together to produce
better-prepared teachers in the 21st Century.
Students in the 21st Century are quite different from
those of the past. Family structure, inclusion
practices, and migrant family patterns have created a
new classroom environment that also changes
traditional student social patterns, and therefore
the way teachers must view social curriculum.
Students often come to school lacking structure,
self-discipline, and self-control. Teaching
discipline therefore is an essential aspect of school
curriculum in the present age. We can no longer
assume all children come to school ready and prepared
to learn.

Autorentext

Rebecca Rockey, D.ED. has been teaching elementary school for 10
years, higher education for 4 years, and is a Responsive
Classroom trainer for the Butler Area School District in
Pennsylvania. She has presented Classroom Management Seminars at
Slippery Rock University, Edinboro University, and Gannon
University.

Klappentext

In order to decrease present rates of teacher
attrition a paradigm shift must occur. Instead of
teacher educators, teacher education programs, and
school districts working in isolation, a united front
is needed to combat this difficult problem. This book
offers teacher educators, teacher education programs,
and school districts, suggestions and research on how
and why they need to work together to produce
better-prepared teachers in the 21st Century.
Students in the 21st Century are quite different from
those of the past. Family structure, inclusion
practices, and migrant family patterns have created a
new classroom environment that also changes
traditional student social patterns, and therefore
the way teachers must view social curriculum.
Students often come to school lacking structure,
self-discipline, and self-control. Teaching
discipline therefore is an essential aspect of school
curriculum in the present age. We can no longer
assume all children come to school ready and prepared
to learn.