Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for the 21st Century Buchkatalog

In order to decrease present rates of teacher attrition a paradigm shift must occur. Instead of teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts working in isolation, a united front is needed to combat this difficult problem. This book offers teacher educators, teacher education programs, and school districts, suggestions and research on how and why they need to work together to produce better-prepared teachers in the 21st Century. Students in the 21st Century are quite different from those of the past. Family structure, inclusion practices, and migrant family patterns have created a new classroom environment that also changes traditional student social patterns, and therefore the way teachers must view social curriculum. Students often come to school lacking structure, self-discipline, and self-control. Teaching discipline therefore is an essential aspect of school curriculum in the present age. We can no longer assume all children come to school ready and prepared to learn.