"This book helps language teachers to explore and become more aware of their own teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. Teacher educators will also find the text a practical book to use in preservice and inservice programs, courses, and workshops. The text discusses and illustrates activities teachers can use to gain awareness of teaching, including observation, action research, keeping journals, exploring with a supervisor, and connecting their personal and professional lives. It then gives examples of teachers who have used such activities to take a careful look at their own teaching practices."--Jacket.

List of contributors --Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Introduction to an exploratory approach to teaching -- Exploring our teaching / Jerry G. Gebhard and Robert Oprandy -- The processes of exploration/ Jerry G. Gebhard and Robert Oprandy -- Processes for exploring teaching -- Seeing teaching differently through observation / Jerry G. Gebhard -- Problem posing and solving with action research / Jerry G. Gebhard -- Reflecting through a teaching journal / Jerry G. Gebhard -- Exploring with a supervisor / Robert Oprandy -- Making personal connections to teaching / Robert Oprandy -- Examples of teachers' explorations -- Teachers talking about teaching : Collaborative conversations about an elementary ESL class / Robert Oprandy with Larua Golden and Kayoko Shiomi -- Microteaching and self-observation / Jerry G. Gebhard, Mio Hashimoto, Jae-Oke Joe, and Hyunhee Lee -- Two action research projects / Zubeyde Tezel -- How yoga was taught : Connecting my student and teacher selves / Jerry G. Gebhard -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.