Teachers College Press: 606 books

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by Denise Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In today’s high-stakes testing environment, integrating technology into the curriculum is often seen as something “extra” or for use with a few special projects. With the growth in Internet use by even the youngest children, educators urgently need a practical introduction to online...
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A Think-Aloud and Talk-Aloud Approach to Building Language

Overcoming Disability, Delay, and Deficiency

by Reuven Feuerstein, Louis H. Falik, Refael S. Feuerstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

While self-talk like “Now we are buckling you in the car seat so we can go to the store” is common parental practice, this book shows how teachers, parents, and therapists can take this to higher levels to advance language cognitive development and learning potential. Based on neuroscience...
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Leading for Powerful Learning

A Guide for Instructional Leaders

by Angela Breidenstein, Kevin Fahey, Carl Glickman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Supporting teacher learning is a complicated and challenging task. This much-awaited book offers a practical, research-based framework for thinking about instructional leadership, along with the necessary resources and tools for improving practice. The authors identify specific structures, formats,...
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by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the...
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Educating Literacy Teachers Online

Tools, Techniques, and Transformations

by Lane W. Clarke, Susan Watts-Taffe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book is a comprehensive guide for literacy teacher educators and professional development trainers who teach and work in online settings. The authors provide tools, techniques, and resources for developing courses, workshops, and other online learning experiences, including blended/hybrid delivery...
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Teaching Disciplinary Literacy

Using Video Records of Practice to Improve Secondary Teacher Preparation

by Charles W. Peters, Deanna Birdyshaw, Amy Bacevich
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This practical guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors and coaches to use videos as a resource to improve teaching. Derived from the authors’ research and experience in a teacher preparation program using video records of practice as a core element for reflection...
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Literacy Playshop

New Literacies, Popular Media, and Play in the Early Childhood Classroom

by Karen E. Wohlwend
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions,...
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Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching

Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice

by Donna Wilson, Marcus Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

“The title promises ideas for effective teaching, and the book delivers on this promise in clear, compelling, and believable prose. This is a book for educators, for policy makers, for parents, and even for presidents.” —From the Foreword byRobert Calfee, professor emeritus, Stanford...
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Writing Instruction That Works

Proven Methods for Middle and High School Classrooms

by Arthur N. Applebee, Judith A. Langer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Backed by solid research, Writing Instruction That Works answers the following question: What is writing instruction today and what can it be tomorrow? This up-to-date, comprehensive book identifies areas of concern for the ways that writing is being taught in today’s secondary schools. The...
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Liberating Leadership Capacity

Pathways to Educational Wisdom

by Linda Lambert, Diane P. Zimmerman, Mary E. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

During the past quarter century, conceptions of leadership have evolved in concert with breakthrough discoveries in science and generative learning. Liberating Leadership Capacity captures these new ideas through the integration of the authors’ earlier works in constructivist leadership and...
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Constructivism

Theory, Perspectives, and Practice, Second Edition

by Catherine Twomey Fosnot
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This enduring bestseller remains the most comprehensive examination of constructivism and its relationship to teaching and learning. Closing the gap between theory and practice, well-known scholars make constructivism accessible by showing its application in everyday classrooms. Building on the success...
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Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools

Differences That Make a Difference

by Howard Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Based on extensive research, this provocative volume explores how schools are places where racial conflicts often remain hidden at the expense of a healthy school climate and the well-being of students of color. Most schools fail to act on racial microaggressions because the stress of negotiating...
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Reading Wide Awake

Politics, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

by Patrick Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

“Reading Wide Awake should be required reading for all educators working to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the greatest opportunity for promoting a real thinking curriculum that I have seen in my 30 years as an educator. I was not only tremendously impressed with this book;...
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Our School

Searching for Community in the Era of Choice

by Sam Chaltain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice—a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education. Will the wider array of school options help parents and educators identify better strategies for helping all children learn? Or will the high stakes...
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