Product Overview
Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teachers focuses on the identification and development of the essential skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective teacher and guides teacher candidates to self-assess in each area. This workbook is designed for EPPs who strive to emphasize that teaching is a profession that require distinctive skills and dispositions.
Developing Critical Skills: A Workbook for Pre-service Teacers:
- provides numerous activities and exercises that refine candidates skills and facilitate self-assessment and reflection in each of the target areas.
- can be used at multiple junctures in an educator preparation program: induction, field experience, and student teaching.
- includes writing prompts and speaking prompts that are pertinent to pre-service teachers.
- provides rubrics for the evaluation of oral reading fluency, writing, etc.
- featuresWebConnect (your EPPs road to certification, state-mandated curriculum standards, etc.)
Whether entering a program, preparing for field experience, or brushing up for the final practicum experience, teacher candidates will find these easy-to-follow exercises informative and empowering.
Teacher educators will appreciate the rubrics and ready-made forms that will be used to address dispositional concerns (tardiness, absenteeism, late work, missing work) in teacher candidates to constructively shape professional behavior.
