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Gordon, Robin L. – Educational Leadership, 1997
Helping preservice and beginning teachers develop social insight or "withitness" remains a critical challenge for teacher educators. Secondary students are particularly critical of teachers lacking these qualities. Student teachers' insight-developing strategies include exposing themselves to adolescent culture, affirming students'"weather,"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Institutional Cooperation