Language Teaching Awareness: A Guide to

This book is a guide devoted to what language teachers can do to become more aware of and explore their teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. It provides teachers with the kind of knowledge and guidelines that can empower them to make their own informed teaching decisions. As such, teacher educators will find this a practical book to use in training courses.

List of contributors

ix

Series editor's preface

xi

Preface

xiii

I INTRODUCTION TO AN EXPLORATORY APPROACH TO TEACHING

1

(32)

Exploring our teaching

3

(17)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Robert Oprandy

The process of exploration

20

(13)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Robert Oprandy

II PROCESSES FOR EXPLORING TEACHING

33

(114)

Seeing teaching differently through observation

35

(24)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Problem posing and solving with action research

59

(19)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Reflecting through a teaching journal

78

(21)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Exploring with a supervisor

99

(23)

Robert Oprandy

Making personal connections to teaching

122

(25)

Robert Oprandy

III EXAMPLES OF TEACHERS' EXPLORATIONS

147

(74)

Teachers talking about teaching: Collaborative conversations about an elementary ESL class

149

(23)

Robert Oprandy

Laura Golden

Kayoko Shiomi

Microteaching and self-observation: Experience in a preservice teacher education program

172

(23)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Mio Hashimoto

Jae-Oke Joe

Hyunhee Lee

Two action research projects

195

(16)

Helen Collins Sitler

Zubeyde Tezel

How yoga was taught: Connecting my student and teacher selves

211

(10)

Jerry G. Gebhard

Bibliography

221

(12)

Author index

233

(3)

Subject index

236

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Language Teaching Awareness: A Guide to Exploring Beliefs and Practices

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