Teachers College Press: 606 books
Shoptalk
Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shoptalk examines the development of literacy, identity, and thinking skills that takes place through cross generation conversation in an African American hair salon and how it can inform teaching in today’s diverse classrooms. By shining a spotlight on verbal discussions between the salon’s...
by Joel Westheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society they would like to live in—and then shows the ways in which schools can be used to make that vision a reality. Westheimer draws on groundbreaking...
ReWRITING the Basics
Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children’s worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children’s natural social learning processes. Readers...
Choice and Agency in the Writing Workshop
Developing Engaged Writers, Grades 46
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Step into a classroom and “listen in” on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the development of their writing. Discover why upper elementary children need ways to become literate as kids, not merely as prototypes of adults...
Becoming a Strong Instructional Leader
Saying No to Business as Usual
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Jones writes with the voice of experience and as a friend of young people. He consistently challenges what he sees as the ‘business as usual’ of schooling, including the current dominant model of school reform—raise standards, test children, reward and punish teachers and...
by Ron Avi Astor, Linda Jacobson, Rami Benbenishty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While it is true that children from military families live unique and interesting lives, it is also true that they face many challenges and special circumstances that civilian children and families don't experience. These can include gaps in school attendance and learning due to frequent moves, being...
The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum
An Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important new book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her colleagues focus on the more than 2 million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age 5 participating in nonparental care. Providing the most thorough synthesis of current research on the early care...
The Effective Literacy Coach
Using Inquiry to Support Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative book moves beyond the day-to-day matters of coaching to a deeper examination of how literacy coaching can improve instructional practice. The authors offer research-based strategies that can be used to create the professional and dynamic relationships needed for successful teachercoach...
Higher Expectations
Promoting Social Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Your School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first true guide for educators who want to include social emotional learning in their schools and classrooms. Focusing in detail on the process of implementing an SEL program, Ray Pasi offers direct, usable guidance for busy school administrators, district supervisors, guidance counselors,...
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home
An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home is the first book to integrate the experiences of one American teacher on a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio, with a four-year adaptation effort in one American school. The lively text includes many “mini-stories” of preschool and kindergarten-age children,...
Multiple Intelligences in the Elementary Classroom
A Teacher's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book will help teachers design effective curriculum for their students with diverse learning abilities. The authors have created a guided process to apply MI theory to the elementary school classroom. The five “pathways” or approaches examined—Exploration, Bridging, Understanding, Authentic...
Hands On, Minds On
How Executive Function, Motor, and Spatial Skills Foster School Readiness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A growing body of research indicates that three foundational cognitive skills—executive function, motor skills, and spatial skills—form the basis for children to make a strong academic, behavioral, and social transition to formal school. Given inequitable early learning environments or “opportunity...
by William G. Brozo, Gary Moorman, Carla Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Graphic novels are an excellent medium to motivate today’s youth to become independent learners and thinkers. This practical guide shows secondary school teachers how to incorporate graphic novels into content area instruction as a tool for meeting the needs of diverse learners and achieving...
Revitalizing Read Alouds
Interactive Talk About Books with Young Children, PreK–2
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can educators and other professionals caring for children extend the learning potential of read alouds? This book is designed to help teachers, special education specialists, and speech-language pathologists achieve two objectives: 1) how to interact with children around books in ways that are...