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Schooling Multicultural Teachers

A Guide for Program Assessment and Professional Development

By: Manya C. Whitaker,Kristina M. Valtierra

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Schooling Multicultural Teachers

A Guide for Program Assessment and Professional Development

By: Manya C. Whitaker,Kristina M. Valtierra

Schooling Multicultural Teachers offers a historical overview of the multicultural education context, followed by practical examples of how the DCRPS can support program evaluation, as well as guide pre-service and in-service teacher development across diverse programs and demographic contexts.

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247

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Emerald Group Publishing

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ISBN 10

1787697177

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9781787697171

Preparing Early Career Teachers to Thrive

Sustaining Purpose, Navigating Tensions, and Cultivating Self-Care

By: Kristina Marie Valtierra

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Preparing Early Career Teachers to Thrive

Sustaining Purpose, Navigating Tensions, and Cultivating Self-Care

By: Kristina Marie Valtierra

Teachers are the backbone of schools, yet they are leaving in droves. Given the crisis of early career teacher burnout and turnover that harms teachers, their students, and entire school systems, Tools to Thrive: Priming Early Career Teachers to Thrive in an Era of Attrition provides teacher educators, early career mentors and new teachers alike with practical strategies to proactively navigate the early years and thrive. Using a humanistic conceptual lens and based on ten years of research and practical application, Tools to Thrive supports novice teacher professional identity formation, resilience, and agency. Based on the most pressing issues expressed by early career teacher participants, chapters include understanding the causes of burnout and attrition, promoting an authentic teacher identity, appreciating teaching as developmental, managing tension and conflict, self-care for busy new educators, and authoring a personalized early career plan. Each topic features practical and reliable reflection exercises, resources, and activities. This book weaves in inspiring quotes, short anecdotes, and work samples from early career teachers who participated in the Tools to Thrive activities"--

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Teachers College Press

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0807786381

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9780807786383

Teach & Thrive

Wisdom from an Urban Teacher's Career Narrative

By: Kristina Valtierra

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Teach & Thrive

Wisdom from an Urban Teacher's Career Narrative

By: Kristina Valtierra

Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. At least half of all new K?12 teachers leave the profession by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career? long educators. This book results from an in?depth qualitative study that explored one 40?year veteran teacher’s career narrative, analyzing how she not only survived the burn out epidemic, but also thrived as a highly effective career?long urban teacher. Part 1 of this book uses a critical socio?political lens is used to guide readers through the complexities of career thrival. Framed within the story of one new urban teacher’s typical morning, the book begins with an overview of the socio?political forces that lead to urban teacher burn out. In spite of the obstacles, the more hopeful idea of urban teacher thrival is uncovered through narrative methodology. Part 2 is dedicated to the dynamic narrative of a veteran urban teacher career journey. This inspiring story is related to frameworks established in Part 1, as well as painting a picture of how public education has evolved over the last 40 years, and it’s impact on the lives of teachers. Part 3 takes a deeper dive into three salient themes that permeated throughout the participant’s story. First hope springs eternal is the idea that sustaining hope supported the teacher’s career thrival. Next, the extended education family is the notion that familial?like relationships at school nourished her longevity. The third theme, creative autonomy, reveals that by being empowered with opportunities for curriculum development and instructional decision?making the teacher maintained her passion. This book concludes with recommendations for teachers, educational leaders and teacher educators to develop and maintain thriving teachers.

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