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Questions About Myself and My Students
Teaching: Is It For Me?
Why Do People Become Teachers Today?
The Joys of Working with Young People
The Value of Teaching in Society
Interest in Subject Matter Field
Other Influences
Why Do Some People Leave Teaching?
Salaries
Support
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The Nation’s First Teachers
Teaching Becomes a Woman’s Profession
The First “Peace Corps”-Teachers for the Midwest and South
Immigration Transforms Teaching
Progressive Education and the Emergence of the High School
Progressive Education
High Schools
Movements of the 1960’s
The Peace Corp
Educational Requirements
The Women’s Movement
The Civil Rights Movement
Should I Be a Teacher?
Readings:
Why Do People Become Teachers Today?
“To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher”
“The Colors and Strands of Teaching”
Why Do Some People Leave Teaching?
“The Wrong Solution to the Teacher Shortage”
Should I Be a Teacher?
“The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching”
Good Teaching: What Is Its Impact?
What Does the Evidence Say About the Difference a Good Teacher Can Make?
Historically Speaking: The “Good Old Days”
“Teacher-Proof Curriculum”
Teachers, Schools, and the War on Poverty
New Research, Different Conclusions
What Is a “Good Teacher?”
Teachers Need to Know Their Subject
Teachers Need to Understand How To Teach
Teachers Need to be Passionate About What They Do
Teachers Need an Ethical Commitment to Their Work
How Does a Good Teacher Involve Parents and the Community?
A Web of Relationships
Parents and Caregivers
A Community Network
Readings:
What Does the Evidence Say About the Difference a Good Teacher Can Make?
“Good Teaching Matters,” Kati Haycock
What Is a “Good Teacher?”
New York State code of Ethics for Educators
How Does a Good Teacher Involve Parents and the Community?
“The Rewards of Parent Participation,”
Student Diversity: Who Will I Teach?
Will My Classroom Be Like the Ones I Attended?
Who Attends School Today?
Race/Ethnicity
Black Americans
Hispanics
Native Americans
Asians
More Than One Race
The Continuing Racial Segregation of the Schools
Gender and Sexuality
Hidden Diversities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students
Religious Minorities
How Can I Be Sure that I am Reaching All My Students?
Looking at Ourselves
Seeing the Diversities
Readings:
Who Attends School Today?
“Globalization, Immigration, and Education,”
“Dude, You’ve Got Problems,”
How Can I Be Sure that I am Reaching All My Students?
“The Silenced Dialogue,”
Including Everyone: Who Sometimes Gets Overlooked in School?
Historically Speaking: Who Was Left Out of American Schools?
What Legal Actions Made School Available for Everyone?
Boys and Girls Together: What Does It Mean for Schools to be Gender Fair?
The Impact of Title IX
Gender Equity
Learning the Language: What Are the Ongoing Debates Over Bilingual Education?
America: A Land of Many Languages
Bilingual Instruction vs. English-Only Instruction
Special Needs: What is the Best Education for Students with Disabilities?
The Legal Foundation of Special Education
Responding to the Mandate
Inclusive Classrooms
Readings
What Does It Mean for Schools to be Gender Fair?
“With Boys and Girls in Mind,”
“The Truth About Boys and Girls,”
What Are the Ongoing Debates Over Bilingual Education?
“All Languages Welcomed Here,”
“The Case for Structured English Immersion,”
What is the Best Education for Students with Disabilities?
“Confronting Abelism,”
Philosophical and Psychological Theories: How Do Children Learn?
What Have Philosophers Said About Human Learning?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Dewey
Mortimer Adler
Maxine Greene
Jane Roland Martin
bell hooks
Kwame Anthony Appiah
How Have Modern Psychologists Changed our Way of Thinking About Learning?
Jean Piaget
B. F. Skinner
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome F. Bruner
What Is the Link Between Brain Research and Day-to-Day Practice in Schools?
How Can Teachers and Schools Serve a Range of Learning Styles?
Race, Ethnicity, Class, Culture, Gender, and Learning
“Normal” Learning
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
See, Listen, Move
Readings:
What Is the Link Between Brain Research and Day-to-Day Practice in Schools?
“How People Learn,” The National Academy of Sciences
How Can Teachers and Schools Serve a Range of Learning Styles?
“Multiple Lenses on the Mind,” Howard Gardner
Questions About My Responsibilities as a Teacher
Curriculum and Standards: What Will I Teach?
What is Curriculum? Why Teach This and Not That?
Defining Curriculum
The Goals of Curriculum
Different Approaches to Curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum
What Are Some of the Current Debates About Multicultural Education?
Do the Standards Address What Students Need to Know?
Historically Speaking: The Standards Movement
Surviving and Thriving as a Teacher in the Midst of the Standards Debates
How Do Different Curricula Reflect Different Views of the Purpose of Education?
Readings:
What Are Some of the Current Debates About Multicultural Education?
“Affirming Diversity,”
“The Disuniting of America,”
Do the Standards Address What Students Need to Know?
“Will Standards Save Public Education?”
How Do Different Curricula Reflect Different Views of the Purpose of Education?
“The Core Knowledge Curriculum-What’s Behind Its Success?”
“What Should Children Learn?: A Teacher Looks at E.D. Hirsch,”
Motivating, Managing, and Assessing: How Will I Teach?
How Will I Motivate My Students?
How Will I Control My Classroom?
Zero-tolerance
Establishing Expectations
Teacher Behaviors in the Classroom
How Will I Assess My Students in a Fair and Meaningful Way?
Classroom Level Assessment
High-Stakes Assessment
Readings:
How Will I Motivate My Students?
“I Won’t Learn from You,”
“Experience and Education,”
How Will I Control My Class?
“Lost at School,”
How Will I Assess My Students in a Fair and Meaningful Way?
“New Design High School Habits Rubric”
Technology: How Is It Changing Our Schools?
How Is Technology Transforming Today’s Schools-Or At Least Some of Them?
New Tech High Schools
WebQuest
Are We On the Edge of a Wonderful New Era or Is There a Downside to All ThisTechnology?
Seymour Papert: Advocate Extraordinaire
Neil Postman: Dissenter
Larry Cuban: A Word of Caution
What Is the Digital Divide and How Does It Affect My Teaching?
How Can I Use Technology to Improve My Teaching?
Readings
How Is Technology Transforming Today’s Schools-Or At Least Some of Them?
“New Tech High: Education Reform Comes to Indiana Classrooms,”
“Meet Bernie Dodge-The Frank Lloyd Wright of Learning Environments!”
How Can I Use Technology to Improve My Teaching?
“Networking Teachers Coaxing Colleagues to Use Technology,”
Questions About the Influences on a Teacher’s Working Environment
Professional Issues: Who Will Influence My Career?
Historically Speaking: How Has Teacher Work Changed-For Better or Worse?
How Much Do Teachers Get Paid?
What is Tenure?
Will I Join a Union?
Why is Professional Development Important?
Who Are the People Who Impact a Teacher’s Workday?
Fellow Teachers
Administrators
Parents and Community Members
Don’t Go it Alone
Students
Class Size
The Reason We Teach
Readings
Will I Join a Union?
“Why Teachers Should Organize,”
“TURNing Unions Around,”
Who Are the People Who Impact a Teacher’s Workday?
“The Desecration of Studs Terkel: Fighting Censorship and Self-Censorship,”
“Two Teachers of Letters,”
Legal, Ethical, and Economic Responsibilities: How Can We Make Our Classrooms Fair?
Why Is School Funding Unequal?
Why Do Schools Sort and Track Students?
Why Do Students Drop Out Before Completing High School?
Why is There an Achievement Gap?
How Do Teachers Sometimes Get Themselves Into Trouble?
Readings
Why Is School Funding Unequal?
“Money, Schools, and Justice,”
Why Do Schools Sort and Track Students?
“The Tracking Wars,”
“The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate,”
Why is There an Achievement Gap?
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
Politics: What Is Its Place in Education?
What is the Role of Federal Officials?
The Supreme Court and the Schools
Presidents and the U.S. Congress
What Are the Politics Behind the No Child Left Behind Debate?
What is the Role of State and Local Politics?
Governors, State Legislatures, and Departments of Education
Local School Districts and School Boards
Hiring Decisions
Licensure
How Do Teachers Make Political Decisions in the Classroom?
Readings
What is the Role of State and Local Politics?
“City Schools and the American Dream: What Will It Take to Improve America’s Urban Public Schools?”
What Are the Politics Behind the No Child Left Behind Debate?
“No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools, How Is It Working?”
Public Education: What Is Its Purpose in a Democratic Society?
What Does a Democratic Society Expect of Its Schools?
Defining Democracy
The School’s Role in a Democratic Society
Historically Speaking: What is the Relationship Between a Universal Education and Democratic Citizenship?
The Educational Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson
Structuring a Democratic School System
Education, Slavery, and Freedom
Making Democracy “Come Alive” in School
Education Is a Civil Right
Recent Visions of Democratic Schooling
How Can We Make Our Schools More Democratic?
Schools Are Not All Equal
The Teacher’s Role in a Democratic Society
Readings
How Can We Make Our Schools More Democratic?
“My Pedagogic Creed,”
“The Meaning of Education,”
“Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching,”
“Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change,”
The Next Questions About Myself
Developing a Plan and a Personal Philosophy: Where Do I Go From Here?
How Do I Get My First Teaching Job?
State Licensure and Examinations
Getting Hired
How Will I Survive as a New Teacher?
The Critical First Year
Staying, Surviving, Thriving, Contributing
What Kind of Teacher Do I Want to Be?
Readings
How Will I Survive as a New Teacher?
“What Keeps Teachers Going?”
What Kind of Teacher Do I Want to Be?
“The Passionate Teacher,”
“Caring, Competent Teachers in Complex Classrooms,”
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