Grow your own teachers : grassroots change for teacher education /
Grow your own teachers : grassroots change for teacher education /
edited by Elizabeth A. Skinner, Maria Teresa Garretón, Brian D. Schultz ; foreword by Charles Payne.
- xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The teaching for social justice series .
- Teaching for social justice series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking teacher preparation / Teaching as political: theoretical perspectives for understanding the grow your own movement / Amalia's quest: from parent mentor to teacher / The school-community organizing model and the origins of grow your own teachers / Parents building communities in schools / Grow your own teachers as bridge-builders: closing the gap between schools and communities / Overcoming institutional barriers to develop a successful community-based teacher preparation program / Community organizing and the evolution of grow your own Illinois / "I went to this school -- I sat in your seat": teachers of color as change agents in city schools / Teaching and learning in a beloved community / On a grow your own journey: the teacher candidate experience / Doing it better together: the challenges and the promise of community-based teacher education / Developing powerful teaching and learning: grow your own within the national educational reform context / Elizabeth A. Skinner and Brian D. Schultz -- Brian D. Schultz, Maureen D. Gillette, and Djanna A. Hill -- Elizabeth A. Skinner -- Mark R. Warren -- Joanna Brown -- Soo Hong -- Maria Teresa Garreton -- Anne Hallett -- Gregory Michie -- Kathleen McInerney -- Christina L. Madda and Morgan Halstead -- Maureen D. Gillette -- Linda Darling-Hammond.
The Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based organizations and colleges of education in preparing community members to teach for change in their local schools. Incorporating stories and the perspectives of foremost teacher educators, students, and community leaders, this book offers an alternative framework for teacher education that will provide urban students with the education they deserve. It will also provide adult community members with an example of higher education that can lead to a rewarding professional career. --from publisher description
0807751936 9780807751930 0807751944 9780807751947
2010054358
Teachers--Training of--United States
Critical pedagogy--United States
Community and school--United States
Educational change--United States.
LB1715 / .G76 2011
370.71173
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking teacher preparation / Teaching as political: theoretical perspectives for understanding the grow your own movement / Amalia's quest: from parent mentor to teacher / The school-community organizing model and the origins of grow your own teachers / Parents building communities in schools / Grow your own teachers as bridge-builders: closing the gap between schools and communities / Overcoming institutional barriers to develop a successful community-based teacher preparation program / Community organizing and the evolution of grow your own Illinois / "I went to this school -- I sat in your seat": teachers of color as change agents in city schools / Teaching and learning in a beloved community / On a grow your own journey: the teacher candidate experience / Doing it better together: the challenges and the promise of community-based teacher education / Developing powerful teaching and learning: grow your own within the national educational reform context / Elizabeth A. Skinner and Brian D. Schultz -- Brian D. Schultz, Maureen D. Gillette, and Djanna A. Hill -- Elizabeth A. Skinner -- Mark R. Warren -- Joanna Brown -- Soo Hong -- Maria Teresa Garreton -- Anne Hallett -- Gregory Michie -- Kathleen McInerney -- Christina L. Madda and Morgan Halstead -- Maureen D. Gillette -- Linda Darling-Hammond.
The Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based organizations and colleges of education in preparing community members to teach for change in their local schools. Incorporating stories and the perspectives of foremost teacher educators, students, and community leaders, this book offers an alternative framework for teacher education that will provide urban students with the education they deserve. It will also provide adult community members with an example of higher education that can lead to a rewarding professional career. --from publisher description
0807751936 9780807751930 0807751944 9780807751947
2010054358
Teachers--Training of--United States
Critical pedagogy--United States
Community and school--United States
Educational change--United States.
LB1715 / .G76 2011
370.71173