Teachers College Press: 606 books
Engaging Learners Through Artmaking
Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom (TAB)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The authors who introduced the concepts of Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) and choice-based art education have completely revised and updated their original, groundbreaking bestseller that was designed to facilitate independent learning and support student choices in subject matter and media.
The...
Standing Up for Something Every Day
Ethics and Justice in Early Childhood Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Standing Up for Something Every Day is written for present and future teachers in the early childhood classroom who truly want to make a difference in the lives of children. Exploring some of the most complex and pressing social and ethical dilemmas confronting early childhood educators, the author...
Bring It to Class
Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students’ backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. This book is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning....
The Vocabulary Book
Learning and Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This extensively revised and expanded edition of the bestselling text and teaching resource incorporates the newest research in vocabulary learning and instruction into a complete and balanced program for all K–12 students, from those who struggle in school to those who excel. Literacy expert Michael...
by Michael S. Moody, Jason M. Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Content standards have become the central focus of instruction in almost every classroom across the country. This timely book addresses the critical need for a process of instructional design that allows K12 teachers to maintain their creativity within the increasing pressures of external accountability....
Teaching in Themes
An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be...
by Louise Derman-Sparks, Patricia G. Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this updated edition, two distinguished early childhood educators tackle the crucial topic of what White children need and gain from anti-bias and multicultural education. The authors propose seven learning themes to help young White children resist messages of racism and build identity and skills...
by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Alison G. Dover, Nick Henning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical book shows how veteran, justice-oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students’ literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order...
Eyes on Math
A Visual Approach to Teaching Math Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new book is an exciting follow-up to the authors’ bestsellers on differentiated math instruction, Good Questions and More Good Questions. Eyes on Math is a unique teaching resource that provides engaging, full-color graphics and pictures with text showing teachers how to use each image...
The Algebra Solution to Mathematics Reform
Completing the Equation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we increase mathematics achievement among all students? This book provides a straightforward explanation of how changing mathematics tracking policies to provide algebra instruction to all students by at least eighth grade can bring about changes in both student achievement and teacher performance.Spielhagen...
Teacher Practice Online
Sharing Wisdom, Opening Doors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teachers know how complicated their work is. They constantly balance considerations of individual students with those of the group; they think about how past events affect today’s lessons; and they constantly adapt and revise for future lessons. But few people ever get to see teachers’...
Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement
Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical resource highlights the critical importance of diagnosis and design in the work of leading and managing for school improvement. The authors maintain that today’s school leaders and managers, under intense pressure to improve student learning, cannot simply adopt and implement...
Mathematics Professional Development
Improving Teaching Using the Problem-Solving Cycle and Leadership Preparation Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This resource will help school leaders and other professional development providers conduct ongoing, structured learning opportunities for mathematics teachers (K–12). The authors present models for professional development and the preparation of PD leaders designed and field-tested as part...
The Teacher-Writer
Creating Writing Groups for Personal and Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Teacher-Writer shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. It meets teachers wherever they are—as novice teachers just beginning to pursue writing, as teachers emerging from a...