Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers Identity, Expectations, an
This book provides tools to help pre-service teachers and teacher-preparation programs identify, evaluate, and respond to misaligned expectations early in the teacher-preparation sequence. Plato tells the story of prisoners who mistake the shadows on the
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Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers
Jeremy Delamarter
Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers Identity, Expectations, and Avoiding Practice Shock
Jeremy Delamarter Northwest University Kirkland, WA, USA
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This book is dedicated to the soon-to-be teachers who are knee-deep in the essential work of becoming and to the teacher educators who are walking alongside them.
Preface
Becoming a teacher is hard. Staying a teacher is even harder. Every day, it seems, the news tells us of failed education levies, of dedicated educators working two or three jobs to put food on the table, of massive student loan debt, and of crushing workloads. In Washington State, where I live and work, we are facing a massive teacher shortage. The combination of baby-boomer retirement, a rapidly growing student population, and a high teacher turnover rate means that we can barely find teachers for core courses, much less electives. Every fall, I get phone calls from desperate administrators, hoping against hope that I know of a math teacher or a science teacher or an elementary special education teacher or someone who can fill these much-needed positions. There’s a perfect storm of demographic shifts, financial pressures, and cultural mistrust working against us. Like I said, becoming a teacher is hard, but staying a teacher is harder. And, unfortuna
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