Research Catalog

Title

Getting down to cases : learning to teach with case studies / Selma Wassermann ; foreword by C.R. Christensen.

Author

Wassermann, Selma.

Publication

New York : Teachers College Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xiv, 205 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Teachers > Training of
• Case method
• Teaching > Case studies
• case method
• Case method
• Teachers > Training of
• Teaching
• Fallmethode
• Lehrerbildung

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / C. R. Christensen -- Ch. 1. Shazam! You're a Teacher! Life in the Uncertain World of Professional Decision Making: It Depends! Applying Knowledge to Practice: Making Meaning from Classroom Experiences. The Tension Between the Need for Answers and the Ambiguity of Meaning Making -- Ch. 2. "Hello, Ms. Chips" -- Learning to Teach from Cases. What's in It for Me? Making the Most of Learning with Cases -- Ch. 3. CASES: The Teacher as Person. 3.1. I So Wanted to Be a Good Teacher. 3.2. My Friend Connie. 3.3. The Bared Breast. 3.4. "I've Got a Problem" 3.5. Isn't It the Teacher's Job to Help Children? 3.6. "How Can I Make a Difference?" 3.7. "I Can't Handle It Anymore" 3.8. The Teacher Next Door: To Tell or Not to Tell? 3.9. Why Can't Things Stay as They Are? -- Ch. 4. CASES: Teachers and Students. 4.1. "I Need You to Tell Me What to Do!" 4.2. Is It Worth the Effort? 4.3. "He's Driving Me Crazy!" 4.4. Barry. 4.5. Between Two Cultures. 4.6. I Don't Want Him Sitting Next to Me! 4.7. "Mr. Ansari Is Coming On to Me" 4.8. "I Just Want to Be Normal" 4.9. I Think He's Stoned -- Ch. 5. CASES: The Teacher and the Curriculum. 5.1. We Only Do the Tried and Proven Things. 5.2. Children Working as Self-Motivated Learners? It Doesn't Work! 5.3. "I'll Come Back When You're Teaching" 5.4. "It's Up to You, Mrs. Buscemi" 5.5. Whose Curriculum Should We Teach? 5.6. We're Worried About Standards. 5.7. Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens in My Class? 5.8. This Stuff Is Boring! -- Ch. 6. Learning About Teaching from Writing Your Own Cases. Learning to Reflect on Practice. Building Habits of Thinking: The Teacher as Case Writer. Conclusion: So You Want to Be a Teacher?

ISBN

• 0807732915
• 9780807732915

LCCN

93023841

OCLC

• ocm28184017
• 28184017
• SCSB-8903464

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library