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Becoming a Teacher
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Teachers in Transition

• Years of successful participant observation
• Training for separation from the student role
• The significance of social transition

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Transition Phases

• Concern about self
• Will the students respect and like me?
• Will I be able to handle every situation?
• Am I good enough to be a teacher?
• Concern about self as teacher
• Do I know my subject matter well enough?
• Do I know enough about teaching to be effective?
• Do I know and am I able to respond to student
  needs?
• Concern about students
• Are my students learning anything?
• Do my students value what I am teaching?
• How can I better teach my students?

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Introduction to Bureaucracy

• The socialization rules
• The teacher technician
• Teacher assessment
• Administrative acceptance and rejection

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Classroom Tools Resources

• The work setting
• Teaching and learning tools
• Technical assistance

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Teacher-Pupil Relationships

• The Teachers Attitude Makes a Difference
• Dont smile until Christmas?
• Kind, compassionate, understanding
• Detached but concerned
• Students
• The Good Workers
• The Undisciplined
• Dont forget PHY 311 resources dealing with class
  management.

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Guides and Guardians

• Teachers Teacher Groups
• Cooperating teacher
• University supervisor
• Principal
• Other teachers
• Union representative

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Teaching in Crisis

• Resource Problems
• Curricular Problems
• Pedagogical Problems
• Social Problems
• Drugs
• Gangs
• Divorce
• Lack of respect for authority
• Failure to value education
• Social standards lower

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Resources

• Based in part upon the book Eddy, E. M. (1969).
  Becoming a Teacher The passage to professional
  status. New York Teachers College Press.
• 3 phases based upon paper from CI 577 by Dent
  Rhodes