Coaching a Student Teacher - (Student Teaching: The Cooperating Teacher) by Marvin A Henry & Ann Weber (Paperback)

About the Book

This book provides comprehensive direction that you need to prepare for your student teacher's arrival and the initial weeks. It includes essential information in an easy-reading, handy format. With key advice from experienced teacher educators sprinkled with gems of research...

Book Synopsis

This book provides comprehensive direction that you need to prepare for your student teacher's arrival and the initial weeks. It includes essential information in an easy-reading, handy format. With key advice from experienced teacher educators sprinkled with gems of research, you will understand your role clearly and know how to create a solid foundation for a successful student teaching experience.

Review Quotes

Easy to read and implement immediately, Coaching a Student Teacher, the second book of The Cooperating Teacher Series, is a wonderful step-by-step resource to guide teachers in mentoring up-and-coming professionals. After nine years of teaching, I mentored my first student teacher this year and was thankful to have the support and guidance of this book!

Henry and Weber do a masterful job at weaving together a concrete mini-guide that directly supports key practices associated with the cooperating teacher's role in supervision and mentoring of the developing pre-service teacher. This "little book" unpacks the foundational knowledge and skill-set needed for cooperating teachers to provide the right context for engaging student teachers in reflecting on and growing from their teaching experience through communication, observation, and discourse strategies. In this book, cooperating teachers will find answers to common questions related to: observation and conferencing strategies, choices for their preferred supervisory approach to conferencing, as well as options for student teacher participation in the classroom and the school. Weber and Henry clearly present effective pedagogy for coaching of the teacher candidate!

About the Author

Marvin Henry served as Professor of Education and Chairperson of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana State University where he was also a supervisor of student teachers and field director for student teaching. He is a former president and a distinguished member of the Association of Teacher Educators as well as a recipient of its Outstanding Program in Teacher Education award.

Ann Weber served as Instructional Assistant Professor in teacher education at Illinois State University. She collaborated with cooperating teachers while supervising hundreds of student teachers and was also the innovator in developing and teaching an online course in the supervision of student teachers.