This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college's conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence.
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By Erskine S. Dottin; Lynne D. Miller and George E. O'Brien
Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Examining How Pre-Service Teacher Education Students Conceptualize and Frame Problems of Professional Practice in Light of Professional Knowledge and Habits of Mind: Erskine S. Dottin, Barbara Johnson and Mickey Weiner
Chapter 2 Building Trust in Undergraduate ESOL Classes: Foundation of Democratic Habits of Mind: Teresa Lucas
Chapter 3 Making Connections: Starting to Incorporate the Habits of Mind in TESOL Classes: Aixa Perez-Prado
Chapter 4 Reframing Subject-Area Reading for Secondary Students Using Habits of Mind: Patsy Self Trand
Chapter 5 Living My Teaching Philosophy to Support Candidates' Development of Habits of Mind: Gwyn W. Senokossoff
Chapter 6 DeMYSTifying Dispositions: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Organization and Supervision of a Course in a Reading Program: Joyce C. Fine
Chapter 7 Nurturing Dispositions Programmatically: Awareness, Valuing, and Internalization: Joyce C. Fine and Lynne D. Miller
Chapter 8 Shifting Teachers' Discourse in the Classroom: Implications of Cultivating Habits of Mind, Visible Thinking, and Teaching for Understanding in a Graduate Childhood Curriculum Course: Angela Salmon and Debra Mayes Pane
Chapter 9 Physical Activity, Sports, and the Habits of Mind: Charmaine DeFrancesco
Chapter 10 Elementary Education Candidates Valuing Dispositions in a Supervised Clinical Practicum in Reading: Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations: Lynne Miller, Helen Robbins, Maria Alvarez Tsalikis, and Lynn Yribarren
Chapter 11 Microteaching Lesson Study (MLS) for Promoting Habits of Mind in Courses for Learning to Teach Mathematics: Maria L. Fernandez, Roxanne V. Molina, Esther F. Joseph and Leslie Nisbet
Chapter 12 Using an Historical Lens and Reflection to Establish Our Vision of Teaching Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Content and Methods of Science: George E. O'Brien and Kathleen G. Sparrow
Chapter 13 Reflections: George E. O'Brien, Lynne D. Miller, and Erskine S. Dottin
Contributors' Biographical Sketch