Teachers College Press: 606 books
Youth Held at the Border
Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Illegal. Undocumented. Remedial. DREAMers. All of these labels have been applied to immigrant youth. Using a combination of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis, this bookexplores how immigrant youth are included in, and excluded from, various sectors of American society, including education....
Artful Teaching
Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum, K8
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K–8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively...
by Jessica Hoffmann Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy—one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our children. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of...
STEM Learning with Young Children
Inquiry Teaching with Ramps and Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This teacher’s guide provides the background information, STEM concepts, and strategies needed to successfully implement an early STEM curriculum (Ramps and Pathways) with young children, ages 3–8. R&P actively engages young children in designing and building ramp structures using...
Engaging the "Race Question"
Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California, coauthors...
Starting With Their Strengths
Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Starting with Their Strengths is the right book at the right time. . . . Lickey and Powers bring us back to developmental reality. They remind us of how young children learn, and draw on the work of masters past and present including Vygotsky, Paley, and the research on Reggio Emilia to invent...
by Roni Jo Draper, Paul Broomhead, Amy Peterson Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today’s teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre....
Race Dialogues
A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
All too often, race discourse in the United States devolves into shouting matches, silence, or violence, all of which are mirrored in today’s classrooms. This book will help individuals develop the skills needed to facilitate difficult dialogues across race in high school and college classrooms,...
Teaching Controversial Issues
The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors...
by Dorothy H. Cohen, Virginia Stern, Nancy Balaban
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Sixth Edition of their classic text, the authors reiterate the critical importance of observing and recording the behavior of young children, especially in the current atmosphere of accountability and testing. In addition, because children with special needs are now widely included in a majority...
Talking Diversity with Teachers and Teacher Educators
Exercises and Critical Conversations Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring content-specific strategies, assignments, and classroom activities, this book provides strategies to help pre- and in-service teachers develop the dispositions and knowledge they need to teach all students well. Focusing on the importance of creating a classroom community in which necessarily...
The Learner-Directed Classroom
Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educators at all levels want their students to develop habits of self-directed learning and critical problem-solving skills that encourage ownership and growth. In The Learner-Directed Classroom, practicing art educators (PreK–16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed...
Teachers and Machines
The Classroom of Technology Since 1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Will undoubtedly be cited in the future as the major source on the history of technology and teaching in the classroom.”—History of Education Quarterly“Through Cuban’s work we can develop an understanding for how teachers define their jobs in ways that outside...
Teaching in the Knowledge Society
Education in the Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out...