Teachers College Press: 606 books
The One-on-One Reading and Writing Conference
Working with Students on Complex Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Personal interactions are the single most effective way for teachers to understand and evaluate their student as learners. Responding specifically to new Common Core State Standards in reading and writing, this book introduces pre- and inservice teachers to a method of one-on-one interaction the authors...
Coaching Teacher-Writers
Practical Steps to Nurture Professional Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves, as well as students, parents, and colleagues. This practical book illustrates how to encourage, lead, and sustain teacher-writers, especially in group contexts. In contrast to guides on writing and...
Deep Knowledge
Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Deep Knowledge is a book about how people’s ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools,...
Classroom Cultures
Equitable Schooling for Racially Diverse Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical resource will assist secondary educators in creating equitable schooling environments for racially diverse youth. Classroom Cultures provides direct insight into the experiences, challenges, and successes of teachers and school leaders who were among more than 500 educators across 29...
Reading Like a Historian
Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards.This popular text shows how to apply Wineburg's highly acclaimed approach to teaching—Reading Like a Historian—to middle and high school classrooms, increasing...
Smarter Teacher Leadership
Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book shares a fresh vision for school leadership that connects current knowledge from mind, brain, and adult learning research to the process of teacher development and leadership. The authors provide clear steps to enable and inspire teachers to embrace leadership and collaboration...
Designing Groupwork
Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable...
by Thomas M. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Author Thomas McCann invites readers to rethink their approach to teaching writing by capitalizing on students’ instinctive desire to talk. Drawing on extensive classroom research, he shows teachers how to craft class discussions that build students’ skills of analysis, problem-solving, and argumentation...
by Ann Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...
New Ways to Engage Parents
Strategies and Tools for Teachers and Leaders, K12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Just as populations change, ideas about how to encourage and work with parents also need to evolve. This practical resource by bestselling author Patricia Edwards provides school leaders and classroom teachers with new and creative ways in which to welcome, encourage, and involve parents. Enacting...
Data and Teaching
Moving Beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on their research in nine of New York City’s most poverty‐impacted schools, the authors dive deep into school systems and routines, as well as into teachers’ practices and students’ experiences. They also zoom out to capture the larger currents that have made this school reform strategy...
Ways of Studying Children
An Observation Manual for Early Childhood Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the publication of the widely used Ways of Studying Children in 1959, young children and education have experienced many new influences, including an increased emphasis on learning in the early years. Focusing on children under the age of eight, this enlarged edition analyzes theories and practices...
by David T. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
David Hansen employs the idea of teaching as a vocation or calling to analyze and interpret case studies drawn from fieldwork. Based on a 3-year study of the everyday working lives of four teachers in a large urban setting—two work in a public high school, one in a Catholic high school for boys,...
Every Young Child a Reader
Using Marie Clay's Key Concepts for Classroom Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This resource will help K–2 teachers revitalize and restructure their classroom literacy instruction based on Marie Clay’s groundbreaking and transformative literacy processing theory. Clay’s theories have created literacy success for more than 2 million struggling first-grade readers...