Product Description: At a time when traditional teacher education is coming under fire, Transforming Teacher Education presents a powerful vision of what teacher education could and should be.Transforming Teacher Education offers an intimate, reflective account of the development of the renowned Team One teacher education program at Michigan State University...read more

The contributors of this book write of their experiences developing an innovative teacher education course. Teacher educators and graduate students provide a detailed portrait of the beliefs about pedagogy, learning, and schools that teachers bring with them to the classroom. It also presents concrete ideas about how to help prospective teachers reconsider these beliefs. Some chapters focus on a specific project - an in-class or field experience - some draw illustrations from student writing, and other chapters address the challenges of being a teacher or student. All engage readers in fundamental questions about education, grounding them in the practical realm of the classroom. The contributors seek an environment that regards pre-service teachers as students who can construct their own understandings. Pedagogical practices that foster conceptual change within the teacher are the desired ends, for then these practices will have an impact on students' thinking.

Product Description: Described by The New Republic as "A frank chronicle of the grief, rage, and guilt everyone in the family suffers, and the adjustments each makes to accommodate the disabled child", this book offers lots of support and understanding for a wide range of disabilities.

Uses interviews with parents and professionals to show families how they can cope with the fear, anger, guilt, self-doubt, loneliness, and stress that can result from living with a seriously disabled child