Becoming an Urban Physics and Math Teacher Infinite Potential /

• Main Authors: Wassell, Beth A. (Author), Stith, Ian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Science & Technology Education Library, 32
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Science education.; Teaching.; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Science Education.; Mathematics Education.

What happens as beginning urban teachers transition through their first few years in the classroom? This book captures one teacher's journey through the first three years of teaching science and mathematics in a large urban district in the US. The authors focus on Ian's agency as a beginni...

Table of Contents:

• Ian's story
• Learning to teach by coteaching
• The summer curriculum project
• Getting a job in an urban school district
• The first year
• Restructuring the classroom: Math in a science way
• Returning to City High
• The big picture: Looking across fields.