Focusing on personal knowledge and how it influences teacher development, "Growing Up" Teaching follows one teacher, "Kay," from her years of teacher preparation through her time as a seasoned veteran. What emerges from this intensive 10-year study is a more complete picture of teacher development that will help us to better prepare and support our pre- and inservice teachers.

Essential reading for everyone who seeks to understand teachers and the profession of teaching, this book offers:

• A holistic view of learning to teach over time that challenges traditional boundaries among pre- and inservice education, curriculum, supervision, administration, staff development, and research.
• Insight into many important issues, such as the link between theory and practice, teacher retention, and how to get teachers to change timeworn pedagogical practices.
• Concrete examples that show how a teacher's prior experiences can be brought to the surface and reconstructed--rather than suppressed and viewed as an obstacle to learning.
• An integrated approach that looks at one teacher's personal knowledge about teaching and learning juxtaposed against that of other teachers, including several from China and Japan.