The Good Preschool Teacher

by William Ayers

Overview

This important book is the result of an in-depth inquiry into the lives and work of six outstanding preschool teachers. Through a creative, original combination of interviews, letters, vignettes, interpretive analysis, and reflections, the author describes and links together the events, people, and experiences that have made these women the excellent teachers they are.Ayers’ method of using autobiographical reflection to understand teaching practice will be excellent for use in pre-service teacher education classes and inservice teacher renewal efforts. Well-written and highly readable, this book is essential for early childhood practitioners—both women and men—at all levels and within all types of services, and will appeal to researchers and parents, as well.“If teachers are to continue to grow, they must at some point begin to study themselves.”
—From the Foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807776575
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Series:	Early Childhood Education Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	587 KB

About the Author

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), education activist, and bestselling author of Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom (with Rick Ayers), To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition, and To Teach: The Journey, in Comics (with Ryan Alexander-Tanner).

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From the Publisher

“If teachers are to continue to grow, they must at some point begin to study themselves.”
—From the Foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley