Affective Teacher Education

This book helps teachers to visualize teaching and learning holistically, linking the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that students need to know, do, and feel, to achieve in school and become lifelong learners.

Affective Teacher Education is one of the first books to provide teacher educators, classroom teachers, school administrators, and teacher candidates with research and recommendations related to affective education. All teachers want to become professional educators; they want find satisfaction and reward in their chosen careers. Likewise, all teachers want to show their students in all grade levels and in all subject areas how to acquire, apply, and appreciate appropriate dispositions or outlooks related to the course content and as a community of learners. This book guides and supports teachers to fulfill these two goals. Each chapter explores a different aspect of affective education and offers the reader useful suggestions to prompt self-assessment, professional conversations, and developmental activities. Affective Teacher Education helps teachers to visualize teaching and learning holistically, linking the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that students need to know, do, and feel, to achieve in school and become lifelong learners.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning
Chapter 4 Teacher Dispositions and Teacher Preparation Programs
Chapter 5 Dispositions: Responsibilities of Teacher Educators and Teacher Candidates
Chapter 6 Examining Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Teachers' Professional Dispositions
Chapter 7 Developing and Assessing Teacher Candidates' Dispositions: A Beneficial Process for All
Chapter 8 Teachers' Practices and Professionalism
Chapter 9 A Reconceptualization of Teacher Manner
Chapter 10 Hope and Heart in Action: Case Studies of Teacher Interns Reaching Students
Chapter 11 Quality Affective Educational Experiences for PK?12
Chapter 12 An Overview of Character Education and Recommendations for Implementation
Chapter 13 Affective Education through Best Practices and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 14 Applying Principles of Invitational Education