Becoming a Teacher

Robert W. Blake Jr. is Associate Professor of Elementary Education at Towson University. By training and passion he is a science educator and focuses much of his work on helping pre-service elementary interns teach meaningful science to elementary students. Brett Elizabeth Blake is Professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University, where she is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Vincentian Center for Social Justice and Poverty.

• Contents: William Schubert: Foreword: More Teacher Lore – Robert W. Blake Jr./Brett Elizabeth Blake: Introduction: What Are Narratives and Why Use Them in Teacher Education? – Robert W. Blake Sr.: Tell Me a Story: The Forms and Uses of Narrative – Darlene Fewster: Developing a Sense of Becoming a Special Educator – Robert W. Blake Jr.: The Shallow End Is Boring: Getting Science Back into the Elementary Classroom – Helen M. Garinger: The Arts in School Counseling Education – Sandra Schamroth Abrams: Digital Narratives by Digital Natives: Online Inquiry and Reflective Practices in a Third Space – Mary Beth Schaefer: Learning With Middle-Grade Students: Narrative Inquiry and Reader Response in the Classroom – Julie H. Carter: Critical Incidents in Social Foundations: Reflecting on Theory, Connecting to Practice – Elizabeth P. Quintero: Early Childhood Collaborations: Learning from Migrant Families and Children – Brett Elizabeth Blake: Who Am I? Urban (ELL) Teachers and Students Create Narratives and Professional Stance Through Cultural Texts – William Ayers: Afterword: Telling Stories out of School.