An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path with CDROM
Author: Sara Davis Powell
Offering a unique experience, An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path, brings teaching to life by taking you into real schools to meet teachers and students. Go on a journey to help determine if teaching is for you, what kind of teacher you want to be, and determine what age students you would like to teach.
Find Your Teaching Identity
- Gain insight about the responsibilities and opportunities involved in teaching at various levels identified by Grade Level Icons in each chapter.
- Answer reflective questions identified by Fingerprint Icons, considering chapter content and video on MyEducationLab to help reveal your teaching identity.
- What Role Will Diversity Play in My Teaching Identity? summarizes chapter content to show you how diversity influences classroom practice.
Focus Schools, Teachers, and Students
- Explore Four Focus Schools representing rural areas, suburbs, and cities. Watch videos on MyEducationLab to hear administrators and principals discuss their schools and take you on a tour of their facilities.
- Get to know Ten Focus Teachers — their classroom demeanor, areas of expertise, teaching styles, attitudes regarding the teaching profession, and dispositions toward children and adolescents.
- Enter the lives of Twelve Focus Students who represent the diverse students of today’s classrooms and see how they interact with family, teachers, and peers.
Your Career. Your Future. MyEduationLab
MyEducationLabis a research-based learning tool that brings teaching in today’s classrooms to life. Through authentic in-classroom video and artifacts, research articles and more MyEducationLab prepares you for your teaching career. Look for the myeducationlab.com logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access. MyEducationLab for this text includes:
· Homework & Exercises assignments to help you extend what you are learning. Links to these assignments are found at the end of the chapter through the following features: Writing My Own Story, and What’s My Disposition.
· Choosing Your Teaching Path, a section that takes you from the book to the videos that highlight our focus schools, teachers, and students.
· Virtual Field Experience, a section that offers additional information and activities about the students in the book and in the video.
Read what reviewers have to say. . . .
"The strength is that no doubt the author's heart lies in this subject matter. The material is fresh, emotional, and honest. This was especially true in the sections dealing with exceptionality. I absolutely loved the vignette/poem about the student with Down syndrome. Amazing!" Corey M. Hall, Florida Community College, Jacksonville
“The book provides the reader with a superb bridge between theory and practice. It is very clear that the author considered a balanced approach between providing students with a rich and straightforward content and providing them with real life scenarios and reflective activities. The book’s presentation is unique in the way it balances theory and practice.” Adel Al-Bataineh, Illinois State University
“The author effectively involves the reader with the text. She does this with the tone of writing as well as with the pedagogical features throughout the chapter. There is good variety among the features, which call for different types of thinking on the part of the student. The end of chapter activities are particularly interesting.” Anna Lowe, Loyola University
Table of Contents:
(Note: Each chapter contains the following features: Concluding Thoughts, What Role Will Diversity Play in My Teaching Identity?, Chapter in Review, and Professional Practice)
Part I Teachers, Schools, and Students
Chapter 1 Teachers
Who Teaches in the United States and Why?
What Are the Roles of Teachers?
How Do We Prepare to Teach?
What Is Teacher Professionalism?
What Are the Characteristics of Effective Teachers?
What's It Like to Teach at Various Grade Levels?
Chapter 2 Schools
What Is the Culture of a School?
How Do the Venues of Schools Differ?
What Is School Like at Different Levels?
What Are the Three Principle Settings of Public Schools?
What Is an Effective School?
Chapter 3 Students
How Are We Similar?
How Are Gender Differences Manifested?
How Does Cultural Diversity Impact Us?
How Is Language Diversity Manifested in U.S. Schools?
What Impact Does Diversity in Family Structure Have on Students?
How Does Diversity of Socioeconomic Status Affect Students?
How Are Differences in Intellectual Ability Manifested in Schools?
Who Are Students with Exceptionalities, and How Do We Serve Them?
Meet the Students
Part II The Work of Teachers
Chapter 4 Curriculum and Instruction
What Is the Relationship Between the Learning Process and the Brain?
What Curriculum Do We Teach in U.S. Schools?
How Is Instruction Implemented in U.S. Schools?
Are We All Teachers of Reading and Writing?
How Do Teachers Match Instruction to School Levels?
Chapter 5 Assessment and Accountability
What Is Backward Design?
What Is Involved in Classroom Assessment?
How Do Teachers Evaluate Student Learning and Assign Grades?
What Are Standardized Tests and How Are Their Results Used?
Who Is Accountable for Student Learning?
What Are Some of the Challenges of Accountability?
Chapter 6 Technology in U.S. Schools
What Guides the Use of Technology in U.S. Schools?
What Technological Tools Are Available to Enhance Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment?
Does Technology Make a Difference in Student Learning?
How Do Teachers Use Technology in Their Classrooms?
What Issues Surround and Affect the Use of Technology in Schools?
What Does the Future Hold for Technology in Schools?
Chapter 7 Creating and Maintaining a Positive and Productive Learning Environment
How Do Teachers Create a Positive Learning Environment?
What Routines Contribute to Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment?
How Do Teachers Establish Expectations, Incentives, and Consequences?
How Can I Develop a Classroom Management Plan?
Part III Foundations of Education in the United States
Chapter 8 History of Education in the United States
What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 17th-Century American Education?What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 18th-Century American Education?
What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 19th-Century American Education?
What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 20th-Century American Education?
How Can I Be Aware of Education History in the Making?
Chapter 9 Philosophical Foundations of Education in the United States
What Is a Philosophy of Education?
What Are Four Branches of Philosophy?
How Do Five Prominent Philosophies of Education Affect Teaching and Learning?
How Do I Begin to Develop My Personal Philosophy of Education?
Chapter 10 The Societal Context of Schooling in the United States
How Do Family, Community, and Society Impact Students in the United States?
How Do Socioeconomic Status and Race Affect Students in the United States?
How Do Health Issues Affect Students in the United States?
What Effects Do Bullying, Theft, and Violence Have on Students and Schools in the United States?
How Do Truancy and Dropping Out Affect Youth in the United States?
Chapter 11 Ethical and Legal Issues in U. S. Schools
What Does It Mean to Be an Ethical Teacher?
How Do Laws Affect Schools, Teachers, and Students?
What Are the Legal Rights of Teachers?
What Are the Legal Responsibilities of Teachers?
What Are the Legal Rights of Students?
How Does the Law Impact the Relationship Between School and Religion?
Chapter 12 Governing and Financing Public Schools in the United States
How Does the Federal Government Influence Public Education in the United States?
What Is the State’s Role in Public Education?
How Do School Districts Function?
What Is the Management Structure of Individual Schools?
What Other Entities Impact the Governance of Public Schools in the United States?
How Are Public Schools Financed?
How Are Funds for Education Spent?
Part IV Growing Toward the Teaching Profession
Chapter 13 Teacher Responsibilities and Opportunities
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Family Involvement?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding the Community?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Colleagues?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Systemic Involvement?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding the Teaching Profession?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Self-Growth?
What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Students?
Chapter 14 Charting My Teaching Course
How Can I Make the Most of Teacher Preparation?
How Can I Make the Most of Searching for a Teaching Position?
How Can I Thrive, Not Merely Survive, During My First Year of Teaching?
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
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