Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability
- ISBN-10
- 0805847081
- ISBN-13
- 9780805847086
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Arthur T. Costigan, Margaret Crocco
Description
This book examines the challenges, struggles, and practices of new teachers in the humanities, emphasizing the pressures they face in the current age of accountability, such as high stakes testing, state curriculum mandates, large and diverse classrooms, and school and district educational cultures.
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