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Working with Emergent Teachers
October 23, 2006
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-Carl Jung
In the Exchange book, Staff Challenges: Practical Ideas for Recruiting, Training, and Supervising Early Childhood Employees, Patricia Berl proposes (in part) these "Principles in Working with Emergent Teachers"....
  • Focus discussions on teachers' understandings of situations �" their ideas, concepts, and assumptions about how children learn, what works and doesn't, what they expect of themselves, what others expect of them, their roles and responsibilities.
  • Strengthen opportunities for developing desirable dispositions, focusing on behaviors that are complimentary to effective teaching, such as openness to children's ideas and feelings, inventiveness, resourcefulness, patience, and enthusiasm.
  • Along with the attention to acquiring new skills, also provide opportunities to practice and refine already existing skills, that enable new teachers to apply developing competencies in a more reliable, consistent, or confident manner.
  • Build upon long-term relationships with emerging teachers and curtail one's own eagerness to be helpful or to intervene in an effort to establish one's own credibility or expertise.


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Joan Lansing-Eigenhuis · October 23, 2006
Ventura College
Ventura, CA, United States


When I clicked the links to the information on this book all I saw was "Product not found." Very disappointing as the book sounded interesting.



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