Teachers College Press: 606 books
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of...
Accelerating Literacy for Diverse Learners
Classroom Strategies That Integrate Social/Emotional Engagement and Academic Achievement, K–8
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Research indicates that the culturally responsive teaching strategies outlined in this book accelerate literacy, language development, and academic growth for students in grades K–8, particularly for English language learners. Completely revised and updated, this bestselling resource speaks...
Whitewashing War
Historical Myth, Corporate Textbooks, and Possibilities for Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Whitewashing War explores perhaps the most critical issue social studies educators presently face: How do we teach our students about war? In this timely book, Christopher Leahey investigates how the political struggles over the social studies curriculum, the corporate domination of the textbook...
Touching Eternity
The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as...
On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning
Changing Children's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states—Michigan,...
Reading the Visual
An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it....
Wounded by School
Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today’s schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education—the...
by Socorro G. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, and English learner education expert Socorro Herrera has updated this bestseller to clarify, focus, and redefine concepts for the continued professional development of educators serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Teaching strategies...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life
Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill...
At the Heart of Teaching
A Guide to Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring engaging narratives, this “how-to” book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process,...
Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs
A Guide for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With a focus on the leader’s role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families, this book is both a stand-alone text and a perfect companion for Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves. It emphasizes that this work is not only...
Culture and Child Development in Early Childhood Programs
Practices for Quality Education and Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Early childhood education programs are expected to provide exemplary care for all children—poor and affluent, children of color and White children—while also adapting care to include children’s families and cultures. These two sets of expectations are often difficult for teachers...
New York City's Best Public Middle Schools
A Parents' Guide, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reflecting changes brought about by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reorganization of New York City’s public school system, this Third Edition features reviews of 74 of the city’s best public middle schools. Providing everything parents need to know in choosing a middle school that is...
Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects
A Teacher's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Multigenre research projects affirm students’ home cultures while developing important academic skills consistent with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing. This book will guide teachers in assigning, scaffolding, and assessing multigenre research assignments, including how...