Professional experience is central in teacher preparation. In Teaching and Communicating, your students are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to make the most of this experience. This user-friendly guide demonstrates how pre-service teachers, supervisors, mentors, and academics involved in school and field placement can be collectively engaged in professional experience contexts that are both dynamic and diverse. It provides opportunities for participants in the professional experience process to consider the complex nature of communication, to develop skills on how communication processes should be enacted, and to consider the broader education community. It also provides your students with practical advice on how to improve assessment by offering ideas about report writing, journal keeping and assignment delivery.

PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE

1. The Current Teacher Education Context

Robyn Ewing and Tom Lowrie

2. Theories of Communication

Tom Lowrie and Joy Higgs

3. Learning to Learn through Professional Experiences

Joy Higgs

4. From Practice Teaching to Practicum to Professional Experiences

Robyn Ewing and Rosie Le Cornu

5. Teachers as Learners

Janette Bobis

6. Ethical Communication in School and Community Contexts

Di Bloomfield

7. Communicating Inclusively

Ann Cheryl Armstrong and Ilektra Spandagou

PART 2: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE

8. Preparing Lesson Plans, Programs, Units and Daybooks

Letitia Galloway and Will Letts

9. Helping Pre-service Teachers Learn to Communicate Effectively in School Contexts

Robyn Gibson

10. Communicating Effectively in Classrooms: Using Voice and Body Language

John Hughes

11. Enhancing Communication with Effective Resources

Tony Loughland

12. ‘Don’t Smile Till Easter’: Creating a Positive Classroom Learning Community

Andrea Reupert

13. Constructive Use of Feedback in Professional Experience

Wendy Hastings

14. Using Portfolios to Communicate

Di Bloomfield

PART 3: COMMUNICATING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

15. Communicating Collaboratively with Peers, Mentors and Supervisors

Tracey Smith and Tom Lowrie

16. Communicating with Parents, Community Groups and Service Agencies

Ros Brennan Kemmis and Sharon Ahern

17. Communicating with Young Children

Stephen Juan

18. Communicating with Adolescents: Through the Middle Years of Schooling

David Smith and Judy Anderson

19. Communicating with Senior Students

Ros Brennan Kemmis and Annette Green

20. Understanding Learning and Communication Difficulties

Alan Bain

21. Language-based Learning Difficulties in the Classroom

Sue Radovich

22. Seeing Practice through Practice: Learning through Action Research and Action Learning

Susan Groundwater-Smith and Robyn Ewing