Teachers College Press: 606 books
Identity Work in the Classroom
Successful Learning in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Responding to school reform efforts that focus on top-down reform measures, this book proposes “identity work” as an alternative approach. The author argues that efforts...
Growing Critically Conscious Teachers
A Social Justice Curriculum for Educators of Latino/a Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To meet the needs of the fast growing numbers of Latino/a English learners, this volume presents an approach to secondary education teacher preparation based on the work of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP). Renowned scholar and educator Angela Valenzuela, together...
Professional Capital
Transformng Teaching in Every School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: theprofessional capitalof every teacher working together in every school....
The Play's the Thing
Teachers' Roles in Children's Play, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Responding to current debates on the place of play in schools, the authors have extensively revised their groundbreaking book. They explain how and why play is a critical part of children’s development, as well as the central role adults have to promote it. This classic textbook and popular...
Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom
Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they’ve developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to...
Change(d) Agents
New Teachers of Color in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines both the promise and complexity of diversifying today’s teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book uncovers a systemic paradox that the teachers confront. They are committed to improving educational...
The New Inclusion
Differentiated Strategies to Engage ALL Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can today’s educators rise to the challenges of teaching in the inclusive classroom, while at the same time making teaching more rewarding and beneficial for all students? In her new book, acclaimed international educational consultant Kathy Perez provides powerful instructional strategies,...
When Pre-K Comes to School
Policy, Partnerships, and the Early Childhood Education Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When Pre-K Comes to School traces what happens—for institutions and teachers—when a school district and community ECE centers partner to provide public pre-K. Wilinski examines policy implementation across diverse sites—a private part-day preschool, a corporate childcare center,...
Teach on Purpose!
Responsive Teaching for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Great teaching is not just a matter of talent or creativity or passion. Teachers are made, not born, and great teachers know why they do what they do in their classrooms. They do it strategically and purposefully based on technique. Teach on Purpose! demonstrates a high-quality research-based and...
by David Campos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic resource will help classroom teachers jump start their students on a path to a healthy lifestyle. The author helps us understand the obesity crisis and offers practical ideas for incorporating wellness initiatives into the elementary curriculum. Each idea presented has a clear learning...
Critical Encounters in Secondary English
Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country are re-evaluating their curriculum and looking for thoughtful ways to incorporate nonfiction into their courses. They are also rethinking their pedagogy...
by JoBeth Allen, Lois Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K–12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry...
"You Gotta BE the Book"
Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction,...
by Sonia Nieto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why We Teach Now dares to challenge current notions of what it means to be a “highly qualified teacher” á la No Child Left Behind, and demonstrates the depth of commitment and care teachers bring to their work with students, families, and communities. This sequel to Nieto’s...