Teachers College Press: 606 books
by Seymour B. Sarason
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his most recent work and with his usual perceptiveness, Seymour Sarason probes the topic of teaching as a performing art. Refreshingly, Dr. Sarason focuses on the often-overlooked role of teachers in galvanizing an audience—their students. Sarason argues that teachers will better engage learners...
by Marian Small
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the second book in the Uncomplicating Mathematics Series, professional developer Marian Small shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of algebra by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to grasp. Organized by grade level around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics,...
Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards
Making Room for Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students’ interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population...
Urban Teaching
The Essentials, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This significantly revised edition will help prospective and new city teachers navigate the realities of city teaching. Now the classic introduction to urban teaching, this book explains how global, national, state, and local reforms have impacted what teachers need to know to not only survive, but...
Ethnically Qualified
Race, Merit, and the Selection of Urban Teachers, 1920 - 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting...
Inspiring Dialogue
Talking to Learn in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspiring Dialogue helps new English teachers make dialogic teaching practices a central part of their development as teachers, while also supporting veteran teachers who would like new ideas for inspiring talk in their classrooms. Chapter by chapter, the book follows novice teachers as they build...
Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom
A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“If you are serious about improving your knowledge about questions and your skill in using them, this is the book for you. Putting some time and effort into the suggested practice will be personally rewarding, and your students will benefit greatly from your effective use of questions.”—Lawrence...
Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype
Listening to Asian American Youth, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The second edition of Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth extends Stacey Lee’s groundbreaking research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. Lee provides a comprehensive update of social science research to reveal the ways...
Inquiry as Stance
Practitioner Research for the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this long-awaited sequel to Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, two leaders in the field of practitioner research offer a radically different view of the relationship of knowledge and practice and of the role of practitioners in educational change. In their new book, the authors put...
Teaching 2030
What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the raging controversy over how to fix the nation’s underperforming schools, the voices of America’s best teachers are seldom heard. Now, in a provocative book about the future of teaching and learning, 12 of America’s most accomplished classroom educators join a leading advocate...
Professional Learning in Action
An Inquiry Approach for Teachers of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Risko and Vogt provide a unique and progressive approach for engaging the professional learning of teachers of literacy, reading specialists, literacy coaches and instructional leaders, content specialists, and administrators. Their deliberate use of Professional Learning signals the importance of...
Getting Teacher Evaluation Right
What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teacher evaluation systems are being overhauled by states and districts across the United States. And, while intentions are admirable, the result for many new systems is that good—often excellent—teachers are lost in the process. In the end, students are the losers. In her new book, Linda Darling-Hammond...
The Flat World and Education
How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her award-winning book, Linda Darling-Hammond-renowned researcher, policy advisor, and educational leader-contends that improving America's performance in the global economy is closely tied to closing the minority-majority achievement gap at home. Today in the United States only 1 in 10 low-income...
Education 3.0
Seven Steps to Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Jim has undoubtedly set out a road map to that much talked of but rarely glimpsed destination, the new educational system. . . . We can stumble our way forward, or we can learn from the pragmatic and hard-earned wisdom of Jim Lengel, who has done more effective thinking about how to make 21st-century...