Integrating sources in APA papers 5

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

Like everyone else, teachers learn through experience, but they learn without much guidance. One problem, of course, is that experience, especially the kind that is both repetitious and disappointing, can easily harden into narrow pedagogical theories. Most schools have a teacher with a theory built on grudges. This teacher knows that there is just one way to conduct a lesson; she blames the children and their parents if the children don’t catch on; she has a list of types and makes her students fit them; and she prides herself on her realism—most children come to school, she knows, to give her a hard time. Current research holds that most teachers get set in their ways, both their good and bad ones, after about four years of learning by experience. Many teachers don’t last that long.

From Kidder, T. (1989). Among schoolchildren. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

[The source passage is from page 51.]

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According to Kidder, “teachers learn through experience, but they learn without much guidance” (1989, p. 51).

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Kidder (1989) argued that teaching experience, “especially the kind that is repetitious and disappointing, easily hardens into narrow pedagogical theories” (p. 51).

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Kidder (1989) has noted, “Current research holds that most teachers get set in their ways, both their good and bad ones, after about four years of learning by experience” (p. 51).

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In the view of Kidder (1989), it’s not unusual for a teacher “with a theory built on grudges” (p. 51).

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Most teachers gain experience on the job and develop rigid habits and theories after as few as four years. “Many teachers don’t last that long” (Kidder, 1989, p. 51).

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