Working with Emergent Teachers

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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