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Stories of Beginning Teachers offers insight into the challenges and triumphs of beginning teachers, presenting both research findings and case studies on the challenges faced by new teachers. More than twenty categories and five hundred specific examples of potential problems and issues are cited in Part 1 of this book. Armed with such useful information about the most frequent, serious, and persistent challenges, Roehrig, Pressley, and Talotta assert, a young educator will be better prepared to teach and more likely to succeed.
Part 2 contains stories of the teaching experience of participants in the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. Included are nine vivid stories of the struggles and successes of new teachers reflecting on their first year, as well as sixteen shorter summaries of the daily lives of beginning teachers. Reading this book, a novice teacher will better understand student motivation, student learning, human development, classroom organization, classroom management, assessment techniques, and the administration of schools.
“Stories of Beginning Teachers should become a prerequisite reading for all college students considering the teaching profession. Beginning and experienced teachers, alike, will be insipred to reinvent themselves and create effective solutions to the more than 500 professional concerns that Roehrig, Pressley and Talotta so concisely and effectively present. No prior work has identified the challenges facing the teaching profession as vividly as this book. Each chapter goes beyond merely tugging at our heart strings to convincingly demonstrating the numerous solution-processes that have been used by first and second year teachers to address complex professional isues. The comprehensive presentation of kindergarten through high school issues will make this book valuable to a wide audience and variety of college courses. I can't thank Roehrig, Pressley and Talotta enough for providing research that moves beyond cliches to concrete illustrations of how to make all teachers' dreams come true. Forwarned is forarmed and Stories of Beginning Teachers can enable all teachers to develop the abilities to provide maximum learning opportunities for all students under their care." —Cathy Collins Block, Professor of Education, Texas Christian University
Alysia D. Roehrig is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame.
Michael Pressley is director of the Master of Education Program, professor of psychology, and Notre Dame Chair in Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books and editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology.
Denise A. Talotta teaches at the Marist Brothers International School in Kobe, Japan.