Practice Teaching: A Reflective Approach

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Practice Teaching surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. Written for language teachers in training at the diploma, undergraduate, or graduate level, Practice Teaching, A Reflective Approach surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. The book adopts a reflective approach to practice teaching and shows student teachers how to explore and reflect on the nature of language teaching and their own approaches to teaching through their experience of practice teaching.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Learning to teach through practice teaching
• Chapter 2 The nature of teacher-learning
• Chapter 3 Understanding the teaching context
• Chapter 4 Working with your co-operating teacher
• Chapter 5 Planning your teaching
• Chapter 6 Teaching an effective language lesson
• Chapter 7 Classroom observation in teaching practice
• Chapter 8 Creating the classroom learning environment
• Chapter 9 Developing learner-centred teaching
• Chapter 10 Classroom discourse and communication
• Chapter 11 Exploring your own teaching
• Chapter 12 After teaching practice
• References