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Learning To Teach in an Age of Accountability book cover

1st Edition

Learning To Teach in an Age of Accountability

By Arthur T. Costigan, David Milton Gerwin, Karen Kepler Zumwalt, Margaret Smith Crocco Copyright 2004
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan area. The issues they grapple with are not,... Read more
Contents: Preface. Part I: Choosing to Become a Teacher. Teaching Is Messy Work. High-Stakes Teaching. Part II: Teaching as an Autobiographical Act. Vocation? Profession? Or Just a Job? "Having a Life" as a New Teacher. From Noble Ideals to Everyday Realities. Part III: Encountering Classrooms and Schools. Lessons, Kids, and Classrooms. Accountability, Autonomy, and Responsibility in the Classroom. Teaching Is Not Just What Happens When You Close the Classroom Door. The Global Village of the Classroom. Part IV: New Teachers as Decision Makers. The Past Is Never Past. Teaching as a Political Act. Part V: Confronting the Age of Accountability. K.K. Zumwalt, Choosing to Make a Difference.

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Arthur T. Costigan, Karen Kepler Zumwalt, Margaret Smith Crocco, David Milton Gerwin

"This volume offers a compreshensive look into the multifaceted challanges faced by educators in contemporary times." "Recommended."
—CHOICE

"Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability, by Arthur Costigan and Margaret Smith Crocco, with Karen Kepler Zumwalt, documents the voices of many new teachers -- important voices, articulate voices, emotional voices. In an age of accountability, these voices bring to light many significant struggles, tensions, and conundrums that exist for them as they enter middle and secondary school environments."
—Teaching Education

"There is a need for a text like this one. It will be useful for beginning teachers to help them think about how to better manage the tensions associated with the current school environment, and to those who prepare and supervise them....Using cases of the actual experiences of beginning urban teachers is excellent."
—Kenneth M. Zeichner
University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability paints a vivid picture of the complex reality, role, and professional development of teachers [and] makes clear connections between accountability mandates and how this negatively impacts teachers and students via narrowly defined curricula and practices....I found it rich and interesting....This book fills a void as a qualitative critical work that looks at what really matters to teachers."
—Holly Thornton
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"This book left me both exhilarated and dispirited--so many articulate and passionate new teachers, yet so many problems in schools. The voices of new teachers are here....I can't think of a problem faced by new teachers that is not addressed in some way....This will be a popular book. I would love to use it with my pre-service teachers."
—Marilyn Johnston
Ohio State University

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