Teachers College Press: 606 books
Everyday Artists
Inquiry and Creativity in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the young child, art is a way of solving problems, conceptualizing the world, and creating new possibilities. In Everyday Artists, the author addresses the disconnect that exists between the teaching of art and the way young children actually experience art. In doing so, this book questions commonly...
Studio Thinking 2
The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first edition of this bestseller was featured inThe New York TimesandThe Boston Globefor its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. Capitalizing on observations and conversations with educators who have used the Studio Thinking...
Teaching for the Students
Habits of Heart, Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In this age of unparalleled accountability, our students seem to get lost in the shuffle of standards-driven curricula and other external factors. . . . Have we forgotten what authentic teaching and learning look and sound like? Have we forgotten that students must always be at the center of...
We Do Language
English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We Do Language builds on the authors’ highly acclaimed first collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed teaching into the secondary English classroom. The book meets three critical goals for preparing...
by Marian Small
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics challenges students to become mathematical thinkers, not just mathematical “doers.” In her new resource, professional developer Marian Small shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of fractions by focusing on the most important fraction...
A Call to Creativity
Writing, Reading, and Inspiring Students in an Age of Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this age of standardization, many English teachers are unsure about how to incorporate creative writing and thinking into their classroom. In a fresh new voice, Luke Reynolds emphasizes that “creativity in our lives as teachers and in the lives of our students is one of our most vital needs...
Windows on Learning
Documenting Young Children's Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Completely updated, this popular guide provides teachers with a proven method for documenting (collecting, analyzing, and displaying) young children’s work. Written by teachers for teachers, it also shows principals, curriculum coordinators, and directors of early intervention programs how to develop...
10 Lessons from New York City Schools
What Really Works to Improve Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this provocative and practical book, author Eric Nadelstern provides a proven-effective blueprint for narrowing the achievement gap in our schools, especially for children of color who have been historically underserved. The author, one of the chief architects of the New York City reforms under...
by Michael R. Neal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Writing and the teaching of writing is changing at a rapid pace. How can educators understand writing assessment as and with technology in the 21st-century classroom? Michael Neal contends that new technologies are neither the problem nor the solution. Instead, educators need to tap into digital resources...
Keep Them Reading
An Anti-Censorship Handbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Keep Them Reading is a concise handbook for teachers, librarians, administrators, and district personnel about how to prevent censorship in a school or district—and what to do if it happens. Written by two award-winning authors who have devoted much of their careers to anti-censorship work,...
Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6
Reading, Writing, and Teaching Tools for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors address teachers’ instructional needs by introducing key concepts from current trends in literacy education—from high-level standards to the use of...
Pose, Wobble, Flow
A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book proposes a pedagogical model called “Pose, Wobble, Flow” to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them. The authors provide...
Untangling Urban Middle School Reform
Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At Rosa Parks, a middle school in a crime-ridden neighborhood, students are advised to “do as they are told” and they will succeed. Unfortunately, “doing what they are told” often translates into repeating information given to them by the teacher, especially when it comes to...
The Story in the Picture
Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open–ended art experiences for young children. The author demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters...