Exploring Teaching: An Introduction to Education - Softcover

Richard-i-arends

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072321806 ISBN 13: 9780072321807

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 2001

Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

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About the Author

Richard I. Arends is Professor of Educational Leadership and Dean Emeritus at Connecticut State University where he served as Dean of the School of Education and Interim Provost of Academic Affair from 1991-2004. Before going to Connecticut he was on the faculty and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard Arends received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon where he was on the faculty from 1975 to 1983. A former elementary, middle school, and high school teacher, his special interests are teaching, teacher education, organization development and school improvement. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America, in Jamaica, and in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Second Handbook or Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Exploring Teaching, and Learning to Teach. The latter is now in its 7th edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland and in 1990 received the Judith Ruskin Award for outstanding research in education given by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). From 1995-97 Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Endowed Chair Boeing in the School of Education at Seattle University. Currently, he is retired in Portland, Oregon where he pursues favorite projects and continues to write.

Nancy E. Winitzky has been involved in teacher education for eleven years. She received her doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1991 she received the AACTE Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Teacher Education. She has taught biology, chemistry, physical science, and math in a rural junior high, and served as department chair. Dr. Winitzky teaches as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Utah. Her areas of specialization include teacher thinking, preservice teacher education reform, and cooperative learning. She has most recently focused on applying constructivist theory to understanding beginning teacher learning.

Margaret D. Tannenbaum received her Ph.D. in Foundations of Education from Temple University in 1972. She is currently an Emeritus Professor of Education at Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College), where she taught for 29 years. In addition to having served as department chair in the Secondary Education/Foundations of Education Department and University Senate President, she was a member of the local school board for 9 years and a non-profit pre-school board for 10 years. Having taught at all levels pre-k to 12, she also has had extensive experience working with public school teachers and administrators to integrate technology into the curriculum. Her special interests include school choice and vouchers, collaborative teaching, the training and evaluating of substitute teachers, and the restructuring of early childhood education. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on some of these topics, as well as an edited collection of readings, CONCEPTS AND ISSUES IN SCHOOL CHOICE.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072321806
• ISBN 13: 9780072321807
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2