The nine cases contained in this volume were winning entries in a national teaching case writing competition. They were selected by a panel of national teaching experts on the basis of their realism, attention to cultural pluralism, style, complexity, opportunities for using professional knowledge, description of multiple perspectives, and for the fact that they allowed for multiple courses of action. The cases describe real-life problems that teachers face with students, colleagues, administrators, and parents.

Teachers' Problem Solving: A Casebook of Award-Winning Teaching Cases

Education & Teaching

Cooper, James M.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

This dynamic, reader-friendly text helps students make informed decisions about entering teacher education programs. The authors use multiple sources, including biographies and dialogues, to increase student interest and involvement with the material, and encourage students to regard becoming a teacher a positive challenge.

Those Who Can, Teach

Ryan, Kevin

Houghton Mifflin School

This comprehensive collection of high-interest readings drawn from a wide range of sources (contemporary, classic, academic, and popular) is designed to correlate with the goals of Introduction to Education and Foundations in Education courses. Accompanying pedagogical features, such as introductions, focus questions, post-reading notes, discussion questions, and a glossary, engage students and guide them in thinking critically about the readings. With 30 percent new readings, the Eleventh Edition provides current viewpoints on such important topics as classroom management, teacher salaries, accountability, standardized tests, sources of student diversity, gender equity, inclusion, multicultural education, and education of gifted and talented students.
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New! Focus Questions at the beginning of each article guide readers in thinking about the most important point or issue in the reading.</li>
<li>Designation of "Education Classics" articles throughout the text by means of a special icon highlights readings that are considered classics in the field; an accompanying rationale for the classification is provided in the pedagogy.</li>
<li>Emphasis on national standards includes several articles focusing on standards and education reform.</li>
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Revised! Strengthened coverage of social issues/tension points features a revised section, "Diversity and Social Issues," offering new articles.</li>
<li>Correlation charts facilitate the use this reader with either Those Who Can, Teach, 11/e, by Ryan and Cooper or Foundations of Education, 9/e, by Ornstein and Levine.</li>
<li>Houghton Mifflin Video Cases, four- to six-minute video modules presenting real classroom scenarios, enable students to observe the day-to-day challenges and rewards of teaching from the convenience of their computers. Available on the Online Teaching and Study Centers, HM Video Cases are enhanced by classroom artifacts, Viewing Questions, Interview Transcripts, Key Terms, and bonus video footage.</li>
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Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Designed for beginning teachers, CLASSROOM TEACHING SKILLS, 9TH EDITION, introduces the teacher as "reflective decision maker," responsible for planning, implementing, evaluating, and making management decisions in the classroom. Each chapter considers a particular teaching skill, first discussing the theory behind it, and then presenting the reader with practice situations in which knowledge about the skill can be applied and evaluated. The Ninth Edition continues to address the importance of core INTASC standards, and highlights developing issues including the "Digital Divide, "the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in and outside of the classroom, cooperative learning, and dealing with behavioral issues.

Classroom Teaching Skills (What’s New in Education)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Wadsworth Publishing

THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 12/E, is a current, dynamic, and reader-friendly approach to help students make informed decisions about entering the teaching profession.

This dynamic, reader-friendly text helps students make informed decisions about entering teacher education programs. The authors use multiple sources, including biographies and dialogues, to increase student interest and involvement with the material, and encourage students to regard becoming a teacher a positive challenge.

Classroom Teaching Skills helps beginning teachers apply theory to practice. The text approaches the teacher as a reflective decision maker, one who makes planning, implementation, evaluation, and management decisions as part of the instructional role. Each chapter addresses a specific teaching skill, the theories behind it, and practice situations in which it can be applied. The Seventh Edition emphasizes Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) core standards by highlighting how the skills and objectives in each chapter correlate to specific standards.

Classroom Teaching Skills

Goldman, Susan R.

Williams, Susan M.

Sherwood, Robert D.

Leighton, Mary

This guide discusses various ways that schools intervene to address specific problems faced by students and their families, with an emphasis on the role of classroom teachers in these interventions. Particular attention is given to those interventions required by law, such as cases of child abuse and neglect.

An Educator's Guide to School-Based Interventions

Garbarino, James

de Lara, Ellen

This guide explains the purposes of educational assessment and evaluation, especially the forms of assessment that teachers use to obtain information and make decisions. Topics covered in the guide include authentic assessment, information-gathering techniques and instruments, judgments and decisions teachers are asked to make, and grading student performance.

An Educator's Guide to Classroom Assessment

TenBrink, Terry

This text features high-interest readings drawn from contemporary, classic, academic, and popular sources. Many of the newer readings explore current trends in teacher education, such as standards, assessment, diversity, and social issues. The pedagogy includes introductions, post-notes, discussion questions, and a glossary and helps students get the most out of each reading.

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Books by Cooper, James M.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Cooper, James M.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Teachers' Problem Solving: A Casebook of Award-Winning Teaching Cases

Those Who Can, Teach

Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education

Classroom Teaching Skills (What’s New in Education)

Those Who Can, Teach

Those Who Can, Teach

Classroom Teaching Skills

An Educator's Guide to School-Based Interventions

An Educator's Guide to Classroom Assessment

Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education