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Grow your own teachers : grassroots change for teacher education / edited by Elizabeth A. Skinner, Maria Teresa Garretón, Brian D. Schultz ; foreword by Charles Payne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Teaching for social justice seriesPublisher: New York : Teachers College Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807751936
  • 9780807751930
  • 0807751944
  • 9780807751947
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.71173 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1715 .G76 2011
Contents:
Rethinking teacher preparation / Elizabeth A. Skinner and Brian D. Schultz -- Teaching as political: theoretical perspectives for understanding the grow your own movement / Brian D. Schultz, Maureen D. Gillette, and Djanna A. Hill -- Amalia's quest: from parent mentor to teacher / Elizabeth A. Skinner -- The school-community organizing model and the origins of grow your own teachers / Mark R. Warren -- Parents building communities in schools / Joanna Brown -- Grow your own teachers as bridge-builders: closing the gap between schools and communities / Soo Hong -- Overcoming institutional barriers to develop a successful community-based teacher preparation program / Maria Teresa Garreton -- Community organizing and the evolution of grow your own Illinois / Anne Hallett -- "I went to this school -- I sat in your seat": teachers of color as change agents in city schools / Gregory Michie -- Teaching and learning in a beloved community / Kathleen McInerney -- On a grow your own journey: the teacher candidate experience / Christina L. Madda and Morgan Halstead -- Doing it better together: the challenges and the promise of community-based teacher education / Maureen D. Gillette -- Developing powerful teaching and learning: grow your own within the national educational reform context / Linda Darling-Hammond.
Summary: 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rethinking teacher preparation / Elizabeth A. Skinner and Brian D. Schultz -- Teaching as political: theoretical perspectives for understanding the grow your own movement / Brian D. Schultz, Maureen D. Gillette, and Djanna A. Hill -- Amalia's quest: from parent mentor to teacher / Elizabeth A. Skinner -- The school-community organizing model and the origins of grow your own teachers / Mark R. Warren -- Parents building communities in schools / Joanna Brown -- Grow your own teachers as bridge-builders: closing the gap between schools and communities / Soo Hong -- Overcoming institutional barriers to develop a successful community-based teacher preparation program / Maria Teresa Garreton -- Community organizing and the evolution of grow your own Illinois / Anne Hallett -- "I went to this school -- I sat in your seat": teachers of color as change agents in city schools / Gregory Michie -- Teaching and learning in a beloved community / Kathleen McInerney -- On a grow your own journey: the teacher candidate experience / Christina L. Madda and Morgan Halstead -- Doing it better together: the challenges and the promise of community-based teacher education / Maureen D. Gillette -- Developing powerful teaching and learning: grow your own within the national educational reform context / 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

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