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Teaching Today An Introduction to Education (with MyEducationLab)
ISBN: 9780137147731 | 0137147732
Edition: 8thFormat: Package
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 4/10/2008
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This popular, motivational introduction to the field of education and the roles of today's teachers focuses on four main aspects of teaching: general characteristics of the profession; various needs of today's learners; approaches to management, teaching, and assessment; and, influences of technology, philosophy, sociology, and history on today's educators. Guided by these well-known authors' belief that "this book is only the beginning," coverage exhibits a realistic emphasis on the topics that will be of particular concern to novice teachers.... MORE
| The Changing Profession | |
| How is Education Changing? | |
| What Are the Foundations? | |
| The Complexity of Teaching | |
| Coping with Change | |
| What Does it Take to Become a Professional Educator? | |
| Preparation as Process | |
| Professional Development Phases | |
| Two General Professional Organizations | |
| Professional Ethics | ... MORE |
| Teaching Portfolios | |
| Roles for Educators | |
| A Professional Educator | |
| What are the Proposals for School Reform? | |
| Change: Educators' | |
| Constant Companion | |
| Systemic Reform | |
| School Choice | |
| No Child Left Behind | |
| School Business Partnerships | |
| Full Service Schools | |
| Teaching in a World of Change | |
| Working With Students | |
| Who Are the Students? | |
| Varying Impressions of the Young | |
| Selected Characteristics of Learners | |
| Patterns of Development | |
| Developing a Sense of Efficacy | |
| How Has Diversity Changed Education? | |
| Benefits of Diversity | |
| Mutlicultural Education | |
| Gender Issues | |
| Goals and Suggestions | |
| Exceptional Learners | |
| What is Taught and How is it Taught? | |
| The Curriculum | |
| Instructional Expertise and Teachers' | |
| Dispositions | |
| How Do We Know Students Have Learned? | |
| Understanding Assessment | |
| Assessment Purposes | |
| Assessment Terms | |
| Assessment and the Instructional Process | |
| Planning Assessment | |
| Measurement Options | |
| Forces Shaping Educational Policies and Practices | |
| How Did We Get Here? | |
| The Historical Perspective | |
| The European Legacy | |
| Development of American Education | |
| What is the Role of School in Society? | |
| Education and Tensions in Society | |
| Sociological Modes of Analysis | |
| Sociological Perspectives on Educational Issues | |
| Are Schools Failing? | |
| How Do Philosophical Perspectives Influence Education? | |
| The Importance of Philosophical Perspectives | |
| Philosophical Perspectives | |
| Educational Applications of Philosophical Ideas | |
| Building a Personal Philosophy of Education | |
| How is Technology Changing Education? | |
| Looking Ahead | |
| Technology and Behavior | |
| Today's Technology: Some Promises | |
| Today's Technology: Some Challenges | |
| What Do You Need to Know About the Law? | |
| The Need to Understand the Legal Environment | |
| Learner Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Teacher Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Who Controls and Finances Education? | |
| The Structure of Educational Control | |
| Financing Education | |
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