Teachers College Press: 606 books
The Power of Protocols
An Educator's Guide to Better Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The use of protocols has quickly spread from conferences and workshops to everyday school and university settings. Now in its third edition, this perennial bestseller features substantial updates that take into account recent developments in the field of facilitative leadership. The authors have also...
Teaching the Tough Issues
Problem Solving from Multiple Perspectives in Middle and High School Humanities Classes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teaching the Tough Issues introduces a groundbreaking teaching method intended to help English, social studies, and humanities teachers address difficult or controversial topics in their secondary classrooms. Because these issues are rarely addressed in teacher preparation programs, few teachers...
Managing to Change
How Schools Can Survive (and Sometimes Thrive) in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book shows how school improvement efforts are often undermined by the changing conditions around schools, as well as by some of the very policies and programs designed to help them make improvements. Hatch argues that schools cannot wait around for conditions to improve or for policymakers to...
by Rachel Branham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inviting readers to examine schools and teaching with a critical lens, this visually and conceptually captivating graphic novel advocates for arts education in schools. At the center of this work is the author’s memoir as a young high school art teacher in the public school system. Through engaging...
Ways of Assessing Children and Curriculum
Stories of Early Childhood Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This text is a response to the increasingly widespread practice of administering standardised tests to preschool and primary-grade children. As Celia Genishi points out, such traditional tests are often misused and fail to measure many significant aspects of children’s growth and learning. Here...
Write Now!
Empowering Writers in Today's K6 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reissue of ILA bestseller.To become truly college and career ready, students need to be able to communicate effectively in writing, and teachers need to be confident and prepared to teach writing in ways that motivate, encourage, and challenge students to higher levels. In this practical volume,...
Raising Race Questions
Whiteness and Inquiry in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Conversations about race can be confusing, contentious, and frightening, particularly for White people. Even just asking questions about race can be scary because we are afraid of what our questions might reveal about our ignorance or bias. Raising Race Questions invites teachers to use inquiry...
Storytime
Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children’s understanding of picture storybooks—the first to focus specifically on young children. Relevant to contemporary young children from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, this dynamic volume includes...
Continuity in Children's Worlds
Choices and Consequences for Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Offers hope through its rich and abundant examples of teachers, parents, and others who care for young children mindfully taking the time to address issues of continuity in everyday life.”—From the Foreword by Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University“After reading...
Assessing Student's Digital Writing
Protocols for Looking Closely
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Troy Hicks—a leader in the teaching of digital writing—collaborates with seven National Writing Project teacher consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students’ digital writing. This collection highlights six case studies centered on evidence the authors have...
See You When We Get There
Young Teachers Working for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gregory Michie’s first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms....
Worth Striking For
Why Education Policy is Every Teacher's Concern (Lessons from Chicago)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written by activist educators, Worth Striking For speaks to teachers and teachers-to-be about the drastic changes in the landscape of public education in recent decades and focuses on what they need to know about the debates and complex issues of reform affecting their lives and professions.The...
Writing and Teaching to Change the World
Connecting with Our Most Vulnerable Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Perfect for use in teacher preparation courses and professional learning groups, this book shows what critical pedagogy looks like and identifies the conditions needed for it to emerge in the K–12 classroom. Focusing on and documenting their experiences with one of their most disenfranchised...
Tell Me More
Listening to Learners Explain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this wonderful collection, Duckworth and six of her colleagues describe learners (who range in age from five to adulthood) coming to connect with different subject matters—from politics to poetry, medicine to mapping. Their findings not only provide good readable stories, but also offer a unique...