Learning to Speak with a Professional Voice: Initiating Preservice Teachers into Being a Resource for Parents

Autor/inn/en	Freeman, Nancy K.; Knopf, Herman T.
Titel	Learning to Speak with a Professional Voice: Initiating Preservice Teachers into Being a Resource for Parents
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 28 (2007) 2, S.141-152 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1027
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Service Learning; Course Content; Beginning Teachers; Communication Skills; Professional Development; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Teacher Education; Early Childhood Education; Family Involvement; Parent Participation; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Service-Learning; Kursprogramm; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Kommunikationsstil; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Elternmitwirkung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Beginning teachers of young children often express concern that their professional preparation has not adequately prepared them to work effectively with families. This remains the case in spite of literature documenting the importance of involving parents in their children's early education. This article describes a service learning project designed to give students early in their professional preparation an authentic opportunity be a resource for the families of the children with whom they have worked. Service learning is a particularly appropriate pedagogical approach to enhance students' confidence and competence working with families because it provides authentic and hands-on opportunities to apply course content. This project effectively provided students an opportunity to assume a professional voice when working with families. It enhanced our program's success ensuring that our students take the requisite skills and dispositions to their work with families, while building their confidence and honing their communication skills. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10