Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional - Softcover

Donald P. Kauchak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130108588 ISBN 13: 9780130108586

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

This book introduces new teachers to their chosen field and attempts to present an honest look at the real world of students, teachers, classrooms, and schools. Each chapter begins with a case study that helps the reader understand how chapter topics relate to the real world of teaching. In addition, each concept and discussion is framed within a case, so throughout the book readers are applying concepts to real situations that teachers face everyday. Chapter topics cover learner diversity in today's students, changes in American society and their influences on today's schools, the history of education in the United States, educational philosophy, the organization of American schools, regulating and funding schools, ethical and legal influences on teaching, the school curriculum, instruction in American classrooms, technology in American schools, and joining the profession. For beginning teachers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The first case-based introduction to education text, Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional guides readers through the profession, foundations, realities, challenges, and rewards of teaching. Each chapter begins with a case study that helps the reader understand how chapter topics relate to the real world of teaching. These cases and vignettes are integrated into every chapter to provide concrete frames of reference for educational concepts.

Features of the text:

• Online Portfolio Activities connected to INTASC Standards encourage students to evaluate their own professional growth.
• Reflect On This contains realistic cases that provide additional opportunities for professional growth through decision making.
• Teaching in an Era of Reform frames a reform issue as it relates to chapter content and asks students to make a personal evaluation of its potential.
• Exploring Diversity helps beginning teachers understand different aspects of diversity and how they can address these differences in their teaching.
• The Changing Role of Teachers translates chapter topics into implications for teachers and teaching as education moves into the 21st century.

Multimedia resources integrated into the text:

• Videos further extend the case studies as they present real-world classrooms, current issues, and research in the field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130108588
• ISBN 13: 9780130108586
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512