A Classroom of Her Own How New Teachers Develop Instructional, Professional, and Cultural Competence

A Classroom of Her Own
How New Teachers Develop Instructional, Professional, and Cultural Competence


ISBN/ISSN: 0761945709 ISBN-13: 9780761945703


Author: Dana Haight Cattani

Copyright: 2002


As practical as it is insightful . . . for teacher trainers and for teachers at all levels

The extraordinary challenges that await all new teachers at the start of their teaching careers become even more complex when the new teachers are young, white, and female. Close to 80% of all new teachers entering the field match that demographic, and those are the teachers most often assigned to urban classrooms with high concentrations of at-risk students. Vulnerable to challenges based on age, power, experience, authority, race, class, and gender, those new teachers are the ones that A Classroom of Her Own follows, observing their on-the-job struggles and achievements as they develop confidence and competence in instructional, professional, and cultural realms. Chapters cover:

- Authority with colleagues, supervisors, aides, veteran teachers, parents, and students

- Professional identity and presentation of self

- Presentation of emotions, including anger, fear, frustr

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