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| Preliminary Contents | |
| Note: Each chapter concludes with A Final Word | |
| Schools and Students | |
| Why Teach? Examining | |
| Your Motives for Teaching | |
| The Rewards of Teaching Sources of Useful Experience | |
| Case Studies in the Motivation to Teach | |
| What Is a School and What Is It For? | |
| Education and Schooling | |
| Schools as ... MORE | |
| Schools as Transmitters or Re-Creators of Culture | |
| Four Basic Purposes of School | |
| What Do Studies Reveal About the Nature of Schools | |
| What Is a Good School? | |
| The Unfinished Work of the Schools | |
| Who Are Today's Students in a Diverse Society? | |
| Sources of Student Diversity English Language Learners Diverse | |
| Abilities Diverse Needs Gender Sexual Orientation | |
| The Teacher's Response to Diversity | |
| What Social Problems Affect Today's Students? | |
| Recognizing Risk Factors New American | |
| Family Patterns Poverty Teenage Parenting | |
| Abused and Neglected Children | |
| Alcohol and Drug Abuse | |
| Adolescent Suicide | |
| School Violence and Vandalism | |
| School Dropout Rates | |
| What Is Taught? | |
| What Is the Curriculum? | |
| What Is the Present Curriculum? | |
| Assessing Student Academic Performance | |
| Additional Influences on Curriculum | |
| Is the Existing Curriculum Relevant to Today's Society? | |
| Teachers | |
| What Makes a Teacher Effective? | |
| Framework for Professional Practice | |
| The Teacher as a Reflective Decision Maker | |
| Aspects of Reflective Decision Making | |
| What Attitudes Does the Effective Teacher Posses? | |
| What Subject-Matter Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
| What Theoretical Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
| Personal Practical Knowledge | |
| What Teaching Skills are Required of an Effective Teacher? | |
| What Should Teachers Know About Technology and Its Impact on Schools? | |
| A Brief Look at Education's Technological Past | |
| How Are Schools Being Pressured to Change? | |
| How Are Technologies Affecting Student Learning | |
| How Are Technologies Affecting Teaching? | |
| How Are Computer Technologies Organized for Student Use? | |
| What Are the Key Issues in Educational Technology? | |
| What Are the Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Teachers? | |
| The Ethics of Teaching | |
| The Teacher and the Law | |
| Lifestyle and the Teacher Law, Religion, and the School | |
| Students and the Law | |
| Foundations and the Future | |
| What Are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education? | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| The Terrain of Philosophy | |
| Schools of Educational Philosophy | |
| The Influence of Psychological Theories | |
| Your Philosophy of Education | |
| What Is the History of American Education? | |
| Themes in American Education | |
| Elementary Education | |
| Secondary Education | |
| Private Education | |
| Education of Minorities | |
| How Are Schools Governed, Influenced, and Financed? | |
| Who Legally Governs Public Education? | |
| Who Influences American Public Education? | |
| How Are Schools Financed? | |
| How Should Education Be Reformed? | |
| What Ought to Be the Elements of Educational Reform? | |
| Current Reform Initiatives | |
| The Current State of School Reform | |
| The Teaching Profession | |
| What Are Your Job Options in Education? | |
| Will There Be Job Openings in Education? | |
| How Do You Obtain a Teaching Position? | |
| How Do You Become Licensed? | |
| If You Don't Teach, What Then? | |
| What Can the New Teacher Expect? | |
| The School Milieu: The Shock of the Familiar Administrators: Mixed Bag and Many Hats Peers: A Mixed Blessing Instruction: So Much to Learn Students: Friends or Fiends? | |
| Parents: Natural Allies with Different Agendas Surviving the First Year of Teaching | |
| What Does It Mean to Be a Professional? | |
| The Status of Teaching: A Profession or Not? | |
| Professional Associations | |
| Your Own Professional Development | |
| Why Teach? | |
| A Final Word Opinions About Teaching | |
| Why Teachers Teach | |
| Endnotes | |
| Appendix | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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