"Growing Up" Teaching: From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

by Frances Schoonmaker

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

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

Frances Schoonmaker is the award-winning author of The Last Crystal Trilogy for middle-grade and young adult readers in addition to her professional books on education.

She sees her writing for young people as an extension of a career that has served them. After teaching school for a dozen years, she became a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University where she taught in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and was Director/Co-Director of the graduate-level teacher preparation program in childhood education.

The Last Crystal Trilogy is the recipient of multiple awards. The Black Alabaster Box won the Firebird Award for Historical Fiction. The Last Crystal has won the 2019 Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery, The Coffee Pot Book Club Gold Medal for Historical Fiction, the Outstanding Creator Award, the Midcrest Media Award and the London Book Festival Award.