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Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (Book alone)
Sara Davis Powell, Belmont Abbey College

ISBN-10: 0131192523
ISBN-13: 9780131192522

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 544 pp
Published: 01/29/2008

This item has been replaced by Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (with MyEducationLab).

This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

 

The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

 

The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.

Offering a unique experience, Choosing Your Teaching Path: An Introduction to Education, brings teaching to life by taking you into real schools to meet real teachers and students. Go on a journey to help you determine if teaching is for you, what kind of teacher you want to be, and determine what age students you would like to teach.

 

Find Your Teaching Identity -

 

  • This text will help teacher candidates gain perspective on what it’s like to teach children at early childhood and elementary levels, as well as adolescents at middle and high school levels. Woven throughout the text, insight about the responsibilities and opportunities involved in teaching at various levels is highlighted by level icons. 
  •  Fingerprint Icons identify oppportunties for reflection. Consider chapter content and video on the MyEducationLab to help reveal your teaching identity.
  • What Role will Diversity Play In My Teaching Identity?  feature summarizes chapter content to show you how diversity influences classroom practice.

 

Focus Schools, Teachers, and Students

  • Explore Four Focus Schools representing rural areas, suburbs, and cities.  Watch videos on MyEducationLab to hear administrators and principals discuss their schools and take you on a tour of their facilities.   
  • Get to know Ten Focus Teachers – their classroom demeanor, their areas of expertise, their teaching styles, their attitudes regarding the teaching profession, and their dispositions toward children and adolescents.
  • Enter the lives of Twelve Focus Students who represent the diverse students of today’s classrooms and see how they interact with family, teachers, and peers.
  • Focus on Teaching -  This opening scenario centers on one of the text’s 10 focus teachers and relates his or her experiences that are aligned with chapter content. A picture of the  teacher is included as a memory jogger for readers to help them identify the teacher as someone they have read about before and watched on the video.
 

Your Career. Your Future. MyEduationLab

MyEducationLab.com is a research-based learning tool that brings teaching in today’s classrooms to life. Through authentic in-classroom video and artifacts, research articles and more MyEducationLab prepares you for your teaching career. Look for the www.MyEducationLab.com logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access. MyEducationLab for this text includes:

  • Homework & Exercises assignments to help you extend what you are learning. Links to these assignments are found at the end of the chapter through the following features: Writing My Own Story, and What’s My Disposition.
  • Choosing Your Teaching Path, a section that takes you from the book to the videos that highlight our focus schools, teachers, and students.
  • Virtual Field Experience, a section that offers additional information and activities about the students in the book and in the video.
OTHER FEATURES FOR YOUR SUCCESS:
  • In the News: ABC News Feature and Video DVD- The importance of understanding national issues that reverberate in the media is emphasized through this chapter feature that points readers to the ABC News videos on DVD in the back of the book and offers opportunities to reflect and respond to the impact of video content on teachers, classrooms, and students.
  • Guiding Questions-   At the end of each Focus on Teaching segment, the “big ideas” of the chapter are presented in the form of questions to help readers understand the organization of  the chapter.
  • Introduction -  Each chapter’s Introduction provides context for the topics to be addressed.
  • Table of Concepts - This unique feature found before Part 1 of the book allows you to quickly reference some important concepts such as NCLB, parents and families, students with exceptionalities, multicultural teaching, and more as they are threaded throughout the text in substantive ways.
  • INTASC Matrix - An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path addresses each of the Standards for Beginning Teachers as developed by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) in multiple ways throughout the text. An overview of just some of the ways the text is aligned with the INTASC Standards can be found in a matrix on the inside front cover.

(Note:  Each chapter contains the following features:  Concluding Thoughts, What Role Will Diversity Play in My Teaching Identity?, Chapter in Review, and Professional Practice)

 

Part I      Teachers, Schools, and Students

 

Chapter 1   Teachers

Who Teaches in the United States and Why?

What Are the Roles of Teachers?

How Do We Prepare to Teach?

What Is Teacher Professionalism?

What Are the Characteristics of Effective Teachers?

What's It Like to Teach at Various Grade Levels?

Chapter 2   Schools

What Is the Culture of a School?

How Do the Venues of Schools Differ?

What Is School Like at Different Levels?

What Are the Three Principle Settings of Public Schools?

What Is an Effective School?

Chapter 3   Students

How Are We Similar?

How Are Gender Differences Manifested?

How Does Cultural Diversity Impact Us?

How Is Language Diversity Manifested in U.S. Schools?

What Impact Does Diversity in Family Structure Have on Students?

How Does Diversity of Socioeconomic Status Affect Students?

How Are Differences in Intellectual Ability Manifested in Schools?

Who Are Students with Exceptionalities, and How Do We Serve Them?

Meet the Students 

Part II        The Work of Teachers

 

Chapter 4   Curriculum and Instruction

What Is the Relationship Between the Learning Process and the Brain?

What Curriculum Do We Teach in U.S. Schools?

How Is Instruction Implemented in U.S. Schools?

Are We All Teachers of Reading and Writing?

How Do Teachers Match Instruction to School Levels?

Chapter 5   Assessment and Accountability

What Is Backward Design?

What Is Involved in Classroom Assessment?

How Do Teachers Evaluate Student Learning and Assign Grades?

What Are Standardized Tests and How Are Their Results Used?

Who Is Accountable for Student Learning?

What Are Some of the Challenges of Accountability?

Chapter 6   Technology in U.S. Schools

What Guides the Use of Technology in U.S. Schools?

What Technological Tools Are Available to Enhance Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment?

Does Technology Make a Difference in Student Learning?

How Do Teachers Use Technology in Their Classrooms?

What Issues Surround and Affect the Use of Technology in Schools?

What Does the Future Hold for Technology in Schools?

Chapter 7   Creating and Maintaining a Positive and Productive Learning Environment

How Do Teachers Create a Positive Learning Environment?

What Routines Contribute to Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment?

How Do Teachers Establish Expectations, Incentives, and Consequences?

How Can I Develop a Classroom Management Plan?

Part III       Foundations of Education in the United States

 

Chapter 8   History of Education in the United States

What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 17th-Century American Education?What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 18th-Century American Education?

What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 19th-Century American Education?

What Were the Major Influences, Issues, Ideologies, and Individuals in 20th-Century American Education?

How Can I Be Aware of Education History in the Making?

Chapter 9   Philosophical Foundations of Education in the United States

What Is a Philosophy of Education?

What Are Four Branches of Philosophy?

How Do Five Prominent Philosophies of Education Affect Teaching and Learning?

How Do I Begin to Develop My Personal Philosophy of Education?

 

Chapter 10 The Societal Context of Schooling in the United States

How Do Family, Community, and Society Impact Students in the United States?

How Do Socioeconomic Status and Race Affect Students in the United States?

How Do Health Issues Affect Students in the United States?

What Effects Do Bullying, Theft, and Violence Have on Students and Schools in the United States?

How Do Truancy and Dropping Out Affect Youth in the United States?

Chapter 11 Ethical and Legal Issues in U. S. Schools

What Does It Mean to Be an Ethical Teacher?

How Do Laws Affect Schools, Teachers, and Students?

What Are the Legal Rights of Teachers?

What Are the Legal Responsibilities of Teachers?

What Are the Legal Rights of Students?

How Does the Law Impact the Relationship Between School and Religion?

Chapter 12 Governing and Financing Public Schools in the United States

How Does the Federal Government Influence Public Education in the United States?

What Is the State’s Role in Public Education?

How Do School Districts Function?

What Is the Management Structure of Individual Schools?

What Other Entities Impact the Governance of Public Schools in the United States?

How Are Public Schools Financed?

How Are Funds for Education Spent?

 

Part IV       Growing Toward the Teaching Profession

 

Chapter 13 Teacher Responsibilities and Opportunities

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Family Involvement?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding the Community?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Colleagues?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Systemic Involvement?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding the Teaching Profession?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Self-Growth?

What Are a Teacher’s Responsibilities and Opportunities Regarding Students?

Chapter 14 Charting My Teaching Course

How Can I Make the Most of Teacher Preparation?

How Can I Make the Most of Searching for a Teaching Position?

How Can I Thrive, Not Merely Survive, During My First Year of Teaching?

References

Glossary

Name Index

Subject Index

    This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

     

    The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

     

    The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.
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Read what reviewers have to say. . . .

"The strength is that no doubt the author's heart lies in this subject matter. The material is fresh, emotional, and honest. This was especially true in the sections dealing with exceptionality. I absolutely loved the vignette/poem about the student with Down syndrome. Amazing!"

Corey M. Hall, Florida Community College, Jacksonville

 

“The book provides the reader with a superb bridge between theory and practice. It is very clear that the author considered a balanced approach between providing students with a rich and straightforward content and providing them with real life scenarios and reflective activities. The book’s presentation is unique in the way it balances theory and practice.”

Adel Al-Bataineh, Illinois State University

 

“The author effectively involves the reader with the text. She does this with the tone of writing as well as with the pedagogical features throughout the chapter. There is good variety among the features, which call for different types of thinking on the part of the student. The end of chapter activities are particularly interesting.”

Anna Lowe, Loyola University Chicago

Offering a unique experience, An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path, brings teaching to life by taking you into real schools to meet teachers and students. Go on a journey to help determine if teaching is for you, what kind of teacher you want to be, and determine what age students you would like to teach.

 

Find Your Teaching Identity

  • Gain insight about the responsibilities and opportunities involved in teaching at various levels identified by Grade Level Icons in each chapter.
  • Answer reflective questions identified by Fingerprint Icons, considering chapter content and video on MyEducationLab to help reveal your teaching identity.
  • What Role Will Diversity Play in My Teaching Identity? summarizes chapter content to show you how diversity influences classroom practice.

 

Focus Schools, Teachers, and Students

  • Explore Four Focus Schools representing rural areas, suburbs, and cities.  Watch videos on MyEducationLab to hear administrators and principals discuss their schools and take you on a tour of their facilities.   
  • Get to know Ten Focus Teachers — their classroom demeanor, areas of expertise, teaching styles, attitudes regarding the teaching profession, and dispositions toward children and adolescents.
  • Enter the lives of Twelve Focus Students who represent the diverse students of today’s classrooms and see how they interact with family, teachers, and peers.

Your Career. Your Future. MyEduationLab

MyEducationLab is a research-based learning tool that brings teaching in today’s classrooms to life. Through authentic in-classroom video and artifacts, research articles and more MyEducationLab prepares you for your teaching career. Look for the www.myeducationlab.com logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access. MyEducationLab for this text includes:

·        Homework & Exercises assignments to help you extend what you are learning. Links to these assignments are found at the end of the chapter through the following features: Writing My Own Story, and What’s My Disposition.

·        Choosing Your Teaching Path, a section that takes you from the book to the videos that highlight our focus schools, teachers, and students.

·         Virtual Field Experience, a section that offers additional information and activities about the students in the book and in the video.

 

Read what reviewers have to say. . . .

"The strength is that no doubt the author's heart lies in this subject matter. The material is fresh, emotional, and honest. This was especially true in the sections dealing with exceptionality. I absolutely loved the vignette/poem about the student with Down syndrome. Amazing!" Corey M. Hall, Florida Community College, Jacksonville

 

“The book provides the reader with a superb bridge between theory and practice. It is very clear that the author considered a balanced approach between providing students with a rich and straightforward content and providing them with real life scenarios and reflective activities. The book’s presentation is unique in the way it balances theory and practice.” Adel Al-Bataineh, Illinois State University

 

“The author effectively involves the reader with the text. She does this with the tone of writing as well as with the pedagogical features throughout the chapter. There is good variety among the features, which call for different types of thinking on the part of the student. The end of chapter activities are particularly interesting.” Anna Lowe, Loyola University

 

View a Sample Chapter PDF:

 

View the in-class videos that accompany the book and meet the real teachers and students who are at the heart of this text. The videos are currently open-access at www.myeducationlab.com.

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    • The accessible writing style, clear and concise explanations and humorous tone demystify the research process. (See, for example, pp. 104, 303, and 310.)
    • Tasks are included throughout the text to guide students through the process of creating their own research report. (See, for example, pp. 4, 175, and 461.)
    • Published research articles are now included in every research methods chapter. (See, for example, pp. 189, 226, and 392.)

    Broadened coverage of qualitative research and expanded coverage of technology throughout the text including:

    • A new chapter on case study research (Chapter 17)
    • How to use online survey research tools (in Chapter 7) and how to use Excel to help organize and analyze data (in Chapters 12 and 13)

    An integrated multimedia resource

    • MyEducationalResearchLab–an online research-based learning tool–offers students an individualized Study Plan, provides instructors a set of assignable Homework and Exercises for each chapter, and provides interactive practice in evaluating and conducting research through Building Research Skills exercises. A complete list of available resources for each chapter is located in the beginning of each chapter (See, for example, pp. 65, 217, and 383).
    • For more information turn to the preface or go to www.myeducationlab.com .
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    Gay, Mills & Airasian
    © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 648 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132338777 | ISBN-13: 9780132338776
    Brief Description

    • Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, ninth edition, is a practical text focused on the skills needed by competent consumers and producers of educational research. The ninth edition includes:

     

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    • The accessible writing style, clear and concise explanations and humorous tone demystify the research process. (See, for example, pp. 104, 303, and 310.)
    • Tasks are included throughout the text to guide students through the process of creating their own research report. (See, for example, pp. 4, 175, and 461.)
    • Published research articles are now included in every research methods chapter. (See, for example, pp. 189, 226, and 392.)

    Broadened coverage of qualitative research and expanded coverage of technology throughout the text including:

    • A new chapter on case study research (Chapter 17)
    • How to use online survey research tools (in Chapter 7) and how to use Excel to help organize and analyze data (in Chapters 12 and 13)

    An integrated multimedia resource

    • MyEducationalResearchLab—an online research-based learning tool—offers students an individualized Study Plan, provides instructors a set of assignable Homework and Exercises for each chapter, and provides interactive practice in evaluating and conducting research through Building Research Skills exercises. A complete list of available resources for each chapter is located in the beginning of each chapter (See, for example, pp. 65, 217, and 383).
    • For more information turn to the preface or go to www.myeducationlab.com.
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    Gay, Mills & Airasian
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Estimated Availability: 01/12/2009
    ISBN-10: 0135035015 | ISBN-13: 9780135035016
    Brief Description

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    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 352 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205593526 | ISBN-13: 9780205593521
    Brief Description

    • Designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment,this brief text enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to elementary and middle grades. 

     

    Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7/e clearly presents, in a friendly tone, the essential content and methods for teaching social studies in the K-8 classroom, while reflecting on the recent trends in technology, teaching English Language Learners, and meeting the needs of diverse students. The text deals with the various social studies disciplines in a way that reflects the field’s greater focus on teaching history, geography, economics, and civic education. 

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    Chapin
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205641946 | ISBN-13: 9780205641949
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    Engaging in the Language Arts offers students a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers will face and how teachers need to identify these language possibilities and know how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their classrooms. Distinguished author team Donna Ogle and Jim Beers have crafted an ideal text for instructors seeking a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, using varied genre and electronic resources. Ogle and Beers present a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring the language arts to life for teachers.

     

    Unlike comparable texts, Engaging in the Language Arts helps teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others, to explore ideas, and to demonstrate their learning orally and in written formats. While covering all of the basic writing processes, the text places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind teaching writing and also includes classroom-based assessments and activities reflecting state and national standards that provide important resources to help teachers differentiate instruction.

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    Ogle & Beers
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205430937 | ISBN-13: 9780205430932
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