Our aim is to empower teachers and help them recognize the alternatives available in teaching by making instructional choices that are both important and justified. J.M. J.W.

Essentials of Teaching: Decisions, Plans, Methods

Education & Teaching

McNeil, John D.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson College Div

Toward accountable teachers;: Their appraisal and improvement

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Exceptional in relating curriculum to teaching strategies and methods, this book includes the latest in curriculum development, practice, theory, and instructional strategies based on research in how people learn. It is designed to engage teachers in understanding curriculum, reflecting upon it and carrying out their own role in curriculum making. Constructivist pedagogy is a central element throughout the book. Attention to the political and social forces impacting the teacher's role provide information on the accountability movement, the profitization of education, changed views of learning and the influence of technology. Chapter One, Who Makes Curriculum? Roles and Levels of Decision Making, describes federal, state and local efforts to control curriculum, and provides specific cases and suggestions that show how teachers can fulfill their moral, critical and professional responsibilities within these official constraints. Chapter Two, Curriculum in the Context of School Reform, offers an in-depth, up-to-date examination of the impact of various reform policies on classroom practices. Coverage of multiculturalism, globalization, reform, assessment, and standards encourages consideration of the most recent trends and issues influencing curriculum development. For teachers and curriculum makers of kindergarten through 12th grade.

Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative (3rd Edition)

Pearson

Focuses on the teacher's role in creating curriculum by putting teacher's in touch with postmodernism ideas and helping them see the implications of these ideas for their own practice. Discusses the purpose, method, and organization of creating curriculum. Focuses on curriculum development from constructivist to social reconstructionist perspectives rather than on transmission models of curriculum making. Teachers and prospective teachers, in curriculum and curriculum development courses for K-12.

Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative (2nd Edition)

PRENTICE/HALL

How to teach reading successfully

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Little,Brown

Curriculum: A comprehensive introduction

Practical tools for joining curriculum conversation  Curriculum is a field in continual flux, the result of an ongoing discussion among teachers approaching from a multitude of perspectives. Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action, Seventh Edition offers the tools to participate in curriculum discussion and to construct and implement curriculum in the classroom.   The Seventh Edition provides you with practical tools for executing curriculum at all levels: policy, institutional, and classroom. You'll develop multiple strategies for dealing with curriculum problems, and build your skills in such areas as determining goals and purposes, providing optimum learning opportunities, and organizing for effective and continuous learning.   This text encourages online curriculum conversation among users and two-way communication between the author and readers. With an array of thoughtful new features and content, the Seventh Edition now:  * Profiles thinkers and resources who are energizing the field with "new departures" that deviate from the established views or prevailing thought discussed in each chapter * Covers political ideologies, the conflicts over school subject matter, and data-driven decision making at state, district, school and classroom levels * Examines the functioning of schools and media as democratic institutions and the relationship of citizens and the political system * Discusses the impact of the privatization of schooling and the world-wide growth of the "Silent Curriculum"  With a balanced presentation of humanistic, social reconstructionist, systemic, and academic perspectives and fresh insights into key curriculum questions, Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action, Seventh Edition comprises an excellent foundation for every educator from master's to doctoral level.

This broad comprehensive introduction to curriculum theory and practice highlights major philosophies and principles and examines the conflicting conception of curriculum.

Curriculum: A Comprehensive Introduction, 5th Edition

wiley

Practical tools for joining curriculum conversation Curriculum is a field in continual flux, the result of an ongoing discussion among teachers approaching from a multitude of perspectives. Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action, Seventh Edition offers the tools to participate in curriculum discussion and to construct and implement curriculum in the classroom. The Seventh Edition provides you with practical tools for executing curriculum at all levels: policy, institutional, and classroom. You'll develop multiple strategies for dealing with curriculum problems, and build your skills in such areas as determining goals and purposes, providing optimum learning opportunities, and organizing for effective and continuous learning. This text encourages online curriculum conversation among users and two-way communication between the author and readers. With an array of thoughtful new features and content, the Seventh Edition now: * Profiles thinkers and resources who are energizing the field with "new departures" that deviate from the established views or prevailing thought discussed in each chapter * Covers political ideologies, the conflicts over school subject matter, and data-driven decision making at state, district, school and classroom levels * Examines the functioning of schools and media as democratic institutions and the relationship of citizens and the political system * Discusses the impact of the privatization of schooling and the world-wide growth of the "Silent Curriculum" With a balanced presentation of humanistic, social reconstructionist, systemic, and academic perspectives and fresh insights into key curriculum questions, Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action, Seventh Edition comprises an excellent foundation for every educator from master's to doctoral level.

Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action

Reading Comprehension: New Directions for Classroom Practice

Scott, Foresman-Addison Wesley

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Essentials of Teaching: Decisions, Plans, Methods

Toward accountable teachers;: Their appraisal and improvement

Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative (3rd Edition)

Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative (2nd Edition)

How to teach reading successfully

Curriculum: A comprehensive introduction

Curriculum: A comprehensive introduction

Curriculum: A Comprehensive Introduction, 5th Edition

Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action

Reading Comprehension: New Directions for Classroom Practice