Document Type
Focus Area Four
Abstract
John Goodlad writes in Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (1990) "the education of educators must be characterized by a socialization process through which candidates transcend their self-oriented student preoccupations to become other-oriented in identifying with a culture of teaching" (p. 59). Becoming "other-oriented" is a process of education in itself. That process can provide needed resources to the community as it meets the students' growth needs.
The school district in which I am employed has an extreme need for additional resources to meet the needs of the thousands of young people at risk of school failure and, ultimately, failure to thrive in the general population. Future educators need the kind of experiences inherent in meeting the needs of these at-risk youth. The challenge to the institute for teacher education and the school system is to facilitate this marriage of needs.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
140
Last Page
146
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1992 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gordon, Randy
(1992)
"Field Experiences As A Timely Component of Teacher Education,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 32.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol3/iss1/32
