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Teaching at Work

Innovating and Sharing Teaching Approaches and Practices to Advance Teacher Preparation

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Teaching plays an important role in all of our lives and provides us opportunities to learn from others including parents, friends, and of course, our classroom teachers. It can occur in formal as well as informal settings and is a form of practice that is so common in our society that it often goes unnoticed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, USA

    Yeping Li

  2. College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University, USA

    Yeping Li

  3. Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, USA

    Janet Hammer

  4. College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University, USA

    Janet Hammer

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  1. Yeping Li
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  1. Texas A&M University, USA

    Yeping Li

  2. Texas A&M University, USA

    Janet Hammer

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Li, Y., Hammer, J. (2015). Teaching at Work. In: Li, Y., Hammer, J. (eds) Teaching at Work. Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-082-6_1

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