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Introduction to Teaching : Becoming a Professional

ISBN: 9780131137714 | 0131137719
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008

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SummaryTable of Contents
For Introduction to Teaching courses and Introduction to/Foundations of Education courses.As the only case-based introduction to teaching text, each chapter of Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional begins with a case study that provides a framework for the discussions that follow and helps the reader understand how chapter topics relate to the real world of teaching. The second edition of this best-selling case-based introduction to teaching text, is organized around three themes: Professionalism, Reform, and Decision Making, which ... MORE
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The Profession
Why Become a Teacher?
Why People Decide to Teach
Rewards and Difficulties in Teaching
The Teaching Profession
Becoming a Teacher in an Era of Reform
The Teaching Profession
Teaching: A Time Perspective
Teaching: Dealing With Complexities
The Multiple Roles of Teaching
Who Will You Work With?
Students
Learner Diversity: Differences in Today's Students
Cultural Diversity
Gender
Ability Differences
Learning Styles
Students with Exceptionalities
Changes in American Society: Influences on Today's Schools
A Changing Society
Students Placed At-Risk
Foundations
Education in the United States: Its Historical Roots
The Colonial Period (1607-1775)
The Early National Period (1775-1820)
The Common School Movement (1820-1865)
The Evolution of the American High School
The Progressive Era
Searching for Equality: The Education of Cultural Minorities
The Modern Era: Schools Instruments for National Purpose and Social Change
Educational Philosophy: The Intellectual Foundations of American Education
Philosophy and the Philosophy of Education
Traditional Schools of Philosophy
Exploring Diversity: Philosophy and Cultural Minorities
Philosophies of Education
Developing as a Professional: Forming a Personal Philosophy of Education
The Organization of American Schools
What Is a School?
The Organization of Schools
Early-Childhood Programs
Elementary Schools
High Schools, Junior High Schools, and Middle Schools
What Is an Effective School?
Governance and Finance: Regulating and Funding Schools
Governance: How Are Schools Regulated and Run?
School Finance: How Are Schools Funded?
Emerging Issues in School Governance and Finance
School Law: Ethical and Legal Influence on Teaching
Law, Ethics, and Teacher Professional Decision Making
The U.S. Legal System
Teachers' Rights and Responsibilities
Religion and the Law
Students' Rights and Responsibilities
Teaching
The School Curriculum
What Is Curriculum?
Forces That Influence the Curriculum
Controversies in the Curriculum
Instruction in American Classrooms
Looking in Classrooms to Define Effective Teaching
Using Our Understanding of Learning to Define Effective Teaching
Technology in American Schools
What Is Technology?
Using Technology in the Classroom
Issues in the Use of Educational Technology
Careers
Joining the Profession
Characteristics of Beginning Teachers
Knowledge and Learning to Teach
Joining the Profession
Surviving Your First Year of Teaching
Directory of State Teacher-Certification Offices
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
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