Expanding Elementary Teacher Education Through Service-Learning - A Handbook on Extending Literacy Field Experience for 21st Century

The goal of this handbook is to offer teacher educators a blue print for strengthening and extending traditional literacy field experiences to include service-learning components. As literacy teacher educators, Sulentic Dowell and Meidl demonstrate how teacher education can be transformed to include more authentic, meaningful, and preparatory field experiences. Adding service-learning components expands teacher education to more adequately prepare elementary education candidates to meet children's needs in 21st century, urban elementary classrooms. This handbook considers the need to redefine and reconfigure teacher education in regards to literacy teaching and learning.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Field Experience and Service-Learning: Preparing Elementary Teachers for 21st Century Urban Challenges
Chapter 2: The Efficacy of Service-Learning Embedded Field Experiences in Urban Teacher Preparation
Chapter 3: Considerations when Cultivating Partners and Establishing Field Experience Placements
Chapter 4: Collaboration and Commitment
Chapter 5: Organizing and Managing a Service-Learning Field Experience
Chapter 6: Embedded Service-learning Components in Educational Field Experience
Chapter 7: Alternative Partners and Placements
Chapter 8: Assessing Service-Learning Field Experiences
Appendix: Service-Learning Resources
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

By Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell and Tynisha D. Meidl

Product details

• Authors: Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Tynisha D Meidl, Tynisha D. Meidl, Meidl Tynisha D., Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Margaret-Mary Meidl Sulentic Dowell, Sulentic Dowell Margaret-Mary
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2016
• EAN: 9781475825886
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2588-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary