Teachers College Press: 606 books
(Un)Learning Disability
Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability...
Natural Learning for a Connected World
Education, Technology, and the Human Brain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don’t they apply this kind of intensity to their schoolwork? These questions are answered by the authors who pioneered brain/mind learning with the publication of Making Connections: Teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now more than ever, policymakers face a number of difficult and technical questions in the design and implementation of new accountability approaches. This book gathers the emerging knowledge and lessons learned offered by leading scholars in the field to provide an invaluable resource for policymakers,...
Teaching Mathematical Thinking
Tasks and Questions to Strengthen Practices and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new resource by math education expert Marian Small helps schools and districts to refine their teaching of standards-based mathematical practices. Small devotes a chapter to each of the eight standards of practice and includes a discussion of what each standard looks like in grades K–2,...
How to Prevent Special Education Litigation
Eight Legal Lesson Plans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is essential that today’s educators and school leaders are more informed about the legal rights and entitlements of students with disabilities. This resource provides eight easy-to-implement lesson plans on special education law that require no legal knowledge and can be facilitated by school...
Teaching Individual Words
One Size Does Not Fit All
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Helping students master a broad range of individual words is a vital part of effective vocabulary instruction. Building on his bestselling resource The Vocabulary Book, Michael Graves’s new book describes a practical program for teaching individual words in the K–8 classroom. Designed to foster...
Walking the Road
Race, Diversity and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mapping the way to reconceptualizing teacher education today, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding the education of teachers for a diverse democratic society.
“Our profession is at a critical crossroad. . . .We must accept Cochran–Smith’s...
Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism
A Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips have been teaching anti-racism to adults for over 20 years. Based on their real classroom experience, Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism offers us a guide to the development of anti-racist identity, awareness, and behavior. By integrating methodology and...
FirstSchool
Transforming PreK–3rd Grade for African American, Latino, and Low-Income Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
FirstSchool is a groundbreaking framework for teaching minority and low-income children. This work discusses the research and practice to date that defines FirstSchool as a critical approach to closing the achievement and opportunity gaps. Changing the conversation from improving test scores to improving...
Building on Strength
Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tackling mainstream views, leading researchers and teacher trainers examine language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write. The text suggests universal practices to facilitate language socialization in multilingual communities,...
Turning Points 2000
Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This seminal volume, written by the principal author of the original report (Anthony W. Jackson) along with one of the main leaders in implementing its principles (Gayle A. Davis):Synthesizes crucial lessons learned from educators attempting to improve middle grades education across the country...
Bambini
The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policy-makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant-toddler care systems in four cities in Italy. Joined...
Beyond Testing
Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The authors of this timely book argue that a fundamentally complex problem—how to assess the knowledge of a child—cannot be reduced to a simple test score. Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results: (1) student self-assessments,...
The Facilitator's Book of Questions
Resources for Looking Together at Student and Teacher Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative...