The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Reflective Practice - Tapa blanda

"This text is well written and extremely well suited for the teacher education students who will be using it. This is just the sort of text that we need in teacher preparation courses-it is realistic, pedagogically sound, and practical ...John Dewey would like this text and the author's practical, yet reflective, approach to teacher education." -- Judy Arnold, "Lincoln Memorial University"

"This text contains a welcome sense of teaching as an important profession, as a significant 'calling, ' and it offers a thoughtful, reflective perspective for dealing with teaching as an important profession. That is crucial, yet sometimes not clearly identified in texts that introduce students to the profession." -- William Martin, "George Mason University"

Lively and reader-friendly, this thoughtful book paints a truly realistic picture of teaching. Comprehensive coverage explores teaching as a profession, simultaneously addressing the fundamentals while encouraging readers to try on the role to see how well it fits. Chapter after chapter, a continuous process of guided reflection helps learners to increase their understanding of the joys and challenges of the profession and encourages them to carefully ponder their place in it. In fact, no other text so carefully journeys through the process of considering life experience, knowledge, research, and situation in order to make an informed decision about choosing a path in life. For individuals considering a career in the teaching field.