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Examines the sources of misaligned teaching expectations using specific, real-world examples
Provides concrete, user-friendly tools for pre-service teachers to identify and categorize their teaching expectations
Illustrates the psychological effects of misaligned teaching expectations and offer practical solutions for overcoming them
Advocates for intentional and structured expectation management as a regular part of teacher preparation programs
Offers an array of tools to combat the ill-effects of practice shock
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Nature of the Problem
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Where Do We Go from Here?
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides tools to help pre-service teachers and teacher-preparation programs identify, evaluate, and respond to misaligned expectations early in the teacher-preparation sequence. Plato tells the story of prisoners who mistake the shadows on the wall of their cave for flesh-and-blood reality. These “shadow narratives” dominated their expectations, and when confronted with a three-dimensional reality that bore little resemblance to the shadows, the prisoners were blinded by the light. Surrounded by images and rhetoric that reduce the fullness of teaching to flat, two-dimensional representations, today's pre-service teachers tend to develop expectations of teaching that resemble the shadows more than they resemble reality. These misaligned expectations often lead to practice shock: the painful and disillusioning cognitive dissonance that comes about when unsustainable expectations collide with real-world practice. Intended as a proactive manual for mitigating practice shock, this book shines a light on the shadows by giving pre-service teachers the tools to examine, confront, and revise their own misaligned expectations of teaching before they reach the point of crisis.
Authors and Affiliations
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Northwest University, Kirkland, USA
Jeremy Delamarter
About the author
Jeremy Delamarter is Associate Professor and Director of Alternative Routes to Certification at the College of Education at Northwest University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers
Book Subtitle: Identity, Expectations, and Avoiding Practice Shock
Authors: Jeremy Delamarter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13491-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13490-7Published: 02 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13493-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13491-4Published: 23 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 210
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Schools and Schooling, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Administration, Organization and Leadership