Learning on Other People's Kids - Becoming a Teach For America Teacher (Hardcover, New)

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired? How do they learn the culture (s) of the community, schools, grade level, curriculum, and children they teach? Is there a ""culture"" of the TFA organization? What recommendations do they offer to TFA donors, policy-makers, future corps members and the public? Woven into this book, are perspectives from mentors who worked alongside TFAers, administrators who hired them, corporate C.E.O.'s who supported them, and policies (both local and national) that privileged TFA over non-TFA teachers. Finally, a compelling series of eyewitness narratives introduces each chapter's theme, documented from the author's own, ""Notes from the Field."" These accounts offer rich, descriptive vignettes that present the challenges TFAers faced, as they occurred. Schools reflect the multi-tiered and often non-level playing field that comprises America's educational landscape. Learning on Other People's Kids: Becoming a Teach For America Teacher provides readers a glimpse into the corps member experience in a rare ethnographic account.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	April 2010
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	284
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-60752-443-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Teacher training
LSN:	1-60752-443-0
Barcode:	9781607524434

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