Learning on other people's kids : becoming a Teach for America teacher

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...

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Main Author Veltri, Barbara Torre (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2010]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806617579
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-444-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264). 
505 0 |a Part I. Becoming a tfa corps member -- Chapter 1. Coaching the corps -- Chapter 2. Why become a tfa teacher? -- Chapter 3. School districts and teach for America -- Chapter 4. Corps training institute -- Chapter 5. Learning the culture of teach for America: The regional organization -- Part II. The socialization of teach for America teachers -- Chapter 6. Learning the culture of communities and schools -- Chapter 7. Learning the culture of teaching -- Chapter 8. Learning the complexities of teaching in poverty schools -- Part III. Teach for America and the education of poor children -- Chapter 9. Tfa corps members and their students -- Chapter 10. Full circle -- Chapter 11. The master narrative and teach for America -- Chapter 12. Problematics and persistent questions. Appendices references. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a 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 multitiered 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. 
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