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Achinstein, Betty; Ogawa, Rodney T. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This book examines both the promise and complexity of diversifying today's teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book uncovers a systemic paradox that the teachers confront. They are committed to improving educational opportunities for students of color by acting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Minority Group Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Urban Teaching
James-Wilson, Sonia; Hancock, Michele – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
Teachers are leaders when they function in professional learning communities to affect student learning, contribute to school improvement, inspire excellence in practice, and empower stakeholders to participate in educational improvement. From an equity perspective, teachers also lead when they serve as change agents who collaborate to use…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training
Blake, Robert W., Jr., Ed.; Blake, Brett Elizabeth, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Becoming a Teacher" revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements of narrative theory to all aspects of pre- and in-service teaching. In essence, it embraces the notion that what teachers say matters. The rationale behind this text is the idea that narrative can not…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Story Telling, Special Education Teachers
Smith, Deborah L.; Smith, Brian J. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
This article discusses urban educators' views of their teaching experiences. The article is based upon survey research conducted with teachers in two poor, urban districts during the 2005-2006 academic year. The teachers reported a variety of positive and negative views regarding their classrooms, their students, and the students' social worlds.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Urban Teaching, Teaching Experience, Teacher Surveys
Wassell, Beth; LaVan, Sarah Kate – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2009
The coteaching model for teacher preparation has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the traditional student teaching or practicum experience. Several studies have investigated the process of coteaching and its impact on participants during the actual experience; however, few depict participants' experiences once they obtain positions and…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Practicums, Urban Teaching, Ethnography
Bieler, Deborah; Thomas, Anne Burns – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background: The need to support new teachers in urban public schools is well established, given current shortages and research that highlights serious issues with teacher retention. Debate continues about approaches to support for new teachers, including questions about the importance of developing an inquiry stance toward teaching. As more…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Methods, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
Lee, Robert E.; Eckrich, Lucille L. T.; Lackey, Chris; Showalter, Brent D. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
This article presents findings from the second year of one large university's grant-supported work to infuse teacher education courses with new contents, guided discourse, and diverse field experiences related to urban teacher preparation (UTP). The findings are based on data from attitudinal surveys completed at the beginning and end of each…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Field Experience Programs
Abbate-Vaughn, Jorgelina; Frechon, Olga; Wright, Brian L. – Theory Into Practice, 2010
This article discusses the relevance of four dimensions of urban teaching: foci on relationships and shared authority, linking classroom content with student experience, incorporation of familiar and culturally compatible communication patterns, and development of counter narratives that challenge stereotypical conceptions of at-risk students and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Characteristics, Student Experience
Johnson, Carla C.; Marx, Sherry – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2009
This study presents a model of Transformative Professional Development (TPD) for use in sustained, collaborative, professional development of teachers in urban middle school science. TPD focuses on urban science teacher change and is responsive to school climate, teacher needs, and teacher beliefs with the intention of promoting change in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Middle School Teachers
Heineke, Amy J.; Carter, Heather; Desimone, Melissa; Cameron, Quanna – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
The College of Teacher Education and Leadership (CTEL) at Arizona State University (ASU) embraced the opportunity to partner with Teach For America (TFA) to tailor existing teacher preparation programs to meet the unique needs of alternatively certified teachers in urban schools. Rather than harp on the distinctions between ideologies and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
Stairs, Andrea J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
A primary purpose of teacher education is to prepare and induct candidates into the teaching profession. What does it mean to be a professional educator? Is deep content knowledge really enough as the federal government and others suggest? Does professionalism look different in urban contexts? How do teachers learn to navigate the multiple…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
Marcos, Teri – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine urban teachers' identified strengths in varied cognitive, affective, and psychological capacities, and their impact on self-efficacy and teacher practices. Clifton and Anderson in the Gallup Organization's Strengths Quest (2004) presented compelling evidence suggesting a mind-set of "what's right with me"…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Zenkov, Kristien; Corrigan, Diane – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2008
This article presents a new notion of teacher "quality" and defines the progressive outcomes upon which urban teacher preparation might be founded. The paper includes a description of the masters licensure program with which the authors are involved and the program's portfolio system that assesses future urban teachers' integration of this social…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Qualifications, Social Justice
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed – Peter Lang New York, 2010
The second edition of "19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City" adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education, the book is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Shirley R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Critical Theory, Dropouts
Weiner, Lois – 1999
To help new and prospective urban teachers deal with the practical problems and moral dimensions of the occupation, this book offers advice about successful urban teaching. The chapters are: (1) "A Book of Advice for Prospective and New Urban Teachers"; (2) "What's Different about Teaching in Urban Schools?"; (3) "Dealing with the Urban School…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Preservice Teachers