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Teaching in America (Book alone), 5/E
George S. Morrison, University of North Texas

ISBN-10: 0205570704
ISBN-13: 9780205570706

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 560 pp
Published: 05/13/2008


Teaching in America, 5/e, is a hands-on, practical text that provides preservice teachers with comprehensive and current information about teaching in today’s diverse American classrooms.

 

The Fifth Edition promises to be the most dynamic and practical to date. With a complete redesign; a host of new research, features, and exercises; as well as a new feature box designed specifically to show pre-service teachers how to use observation effectively, this text is sure to draw attention beyond its steady and loyal base. Its “working-text” style continues to provide preservice teachers with extensive opportunities to interact with the text while establishing both the foundations of American education and a clear picture of the realities of contemporary teaching. Its increased emphasis on accountability woven throughout the text and the marginal references to INTASC standards raise the

readers’ awareness of key initiatives in education in the 21st century. The frequent and insightful questions sprinkled throughout each chapter require students to continually stop and reflect on how theories, research and current events are relevant to teaching practices. Teaching in America provides the reader with a firm understanding of education as an institution and as a career, as well as a comprehensive knowledge of teaching competencies and issues in education.

  • All new chapter opening vignettes are written by classroom teachers or administrators, giving readers a glimpse of life in the classroom and in schools and their communities.
  • Reflect & Write activities facilitate student interaction throughout the text and encourage active learning while promoting reflective practice to assist with retention and learning.Organized around the key theme of active learning, this feature, in combination with other features throughout the text, provide students with more opportunities than any other text for personal reflection and creative problem solving.
  • You Decide boxes present discussions of current controversial topics in education and ask students to weigh in on their views using research and what they have learned in the chapter to support their perspective.
  • In the Classroom feature boxes replace Profiles from the previous editions.  These boxes describe the practices of leading teachers and administrators, often in their own words. Many of these features are new or have been updated reflecting classrooms with increasingly diverse learners.
  • What’s New in Education? replace Education on the Move from previous editions. These features present new approaches, trends, legislation and  innovations that are impacting today’s schools including comprehensive community involvement, new uses for technology, and single-sex classrooms.
  • What Does This Mean for You? This feature, mostly presented in the margin, explains how information in the text with regard to educational policy, philosophy, finance, laws, and so on, will impact the reader’s role as a teacher.
  • Marginal INTASC standards are linked to chapter material by marginal icons throughout the text; NCATE standards are listed and correlated to relevant chapters on the inside cover of the text.
  • Marginal URLs are presented throughout the text to drive readers to relevant web sites that tie to the text. These URLs, as well as URLs listed at the end of some of the box features are particularly useful for on-line courses, where students and professors are already using the web to interact.

  • Your Turn - Placed in the margin near relevant content, this item asks students to imagine themselves in a particular situation and explain how they would resolve related issues.
  • Observe and Learn - Observation is a powerful tool that can tell teachers a lot about their students and about how to run their classroom. These short feature boxes recommend ways in which readers can use observation to inform their instruction and to use as an assessment tool when teaching.
  • Ethical Dilemmas - Each chapter concludes with a situation in which new teachers may find themselves, whether they are put in a position in which they have to challenge authority, or they may disagree with senior members of a committee on which they are a new member, or they may wonder why their students aren’t getting their fair share of school supplies. After each scenario is presented, the readers are asked to determine how they will respond to these real life dilemmas.
  • End of chapters summaries/list of key terms - End of chapter summaries and key terms are new to this edition, allowing students to quickly assess whether they have grasped all of the key issues discussed in the chapter and whether they have integrated the key concepts into their education vocabulary.

Part One: Teachers and Schools

 

Ch. 1: What it Means to Be a Teacher

 

What Makes a Good Teacher?

How Are Teachers Held Accountable Today?

What Do Teachers Do?

Why Do Teachers Teach?

How Is Teaching Changing?

 

Ch. 2: Teaching as a Profession

 

Why Choose Teaching as Your Profession?
What Are The Dimensions of Professionalism and Why Are They Important?

How Do You Develop a Philosophy of Education?

What Opportunities Exist for Professional Development?

How Are Reform Movements Changing Teacher Education?

Who Are Today’s Teachers?

What Job Opportunities Do You Have As A Teacher?

 

Part 2: Students, Families, and Communities

 

Ch. 3: How Schools Are Organized and Connected to Communities

What is the Purpose of Schooling?

How Are Public Schools Organized?

What Is It Like to Teach in Urban, Rural, and Suburban Schools?

 

C    Ch. 4: Teaching Diverse Learners I: Multiculturalism and Gender in Today’s Classrooms

America --  A Nation of Diverse Learners

How Do Racial and Ethnic Diversity Affect Teaching and Learning?

What is Multicultural Education?

How Does Language Influence Teaching and Learning?

How Does Gender Affect Teaching and Learning? 

 

Ch. 5: Teaching Diverse Learners II: Academically Diverse Learners in Today’s Classrooms

Do Federal and State Law Provide for the Education of Exceptional Learners?

What Are Mainstreaming and Inclusion?

How Can Professional Collaboration Enhance Education in Inclusive Classrooms?

How Can You Teach Exceptional Learners in Your Classroom?

What Factors Place Students at Risk and Affect Teaching and Learning?

What Can Schools Do to Help Students At Risk?

 

Ch. 6: Partners in Learning: Parents, Families, and the Community

How Do Parents, Families, and Communities Influence Teaching and Learning?

What Are Family —Centered Programs?

What Is Parent Involvement?

What Educational Reforms Are Promoting Greater Parent Empowerment?

How Can You Use the Community to Teach?

 

Part 3: Foundations of American Education

 

Ch. 7: The Politics of American Education

What Forces Influence School Governance and Finance?

How Is Education Governed?

How Are Schools Held Accountable?

How Are Schools Governed and Administered?

How Is Education Funded?

What Issues of Governance and Finance Affect Education Today?

 

Ch. 8: Education and School Law

What Is the Basis of School Law?

What Are the Legal Responsibilities of States and School Districts?

What Are Your Legal Responsibilities as a Teacher?

What Are Your Legal Rights as a Teacher?

What Are Students’ Legal Rights?

What Are Parents’ Rights and Responsibilities?

 

Ch. 9: Historical and Philosophical Influences on Teaching and Learning

What Was Schooling Like in the American Colonies?

How Did Nationhood Change American Education?

How Did American Education Change after the Civil War?

How Did American Education Change after World War II?

How Is Philosophy Relevant for Classroom Teachers?

How Do the Branches of Philosophy Relate to Education

What Are the Major Philosophies of Education

What are the Implications of Philosophies of Education for You and Your Students?

 

Part 4: Assessing and Fostering Teaching and Learning

 

Ch. 10: Standards, Assessment, and Accountability in Education Today

How Are Standards Changing Teaching and Learning?

How is Standards-Based Education Affecting Teaching and Learning?

How is Testing Changing Teaching and Learning?

 

Ch. 11: Teaching in Schools Today

What is the Role of Curriculum in Education?

What Is the Contemporary Curriculum Like?

How Do Teachers Plan and Deliver Instruction?

What Are Some Models of Direct Instruction?

What Are Some Models of Nondirect Instruction?

Curriculum Influences for the Twenty-First Century

What Works in the Classroom?

 

Ch. 1    Ch. 12: Technology, Teaching, and Learning

What is Technology?

What is Technological Literacy?

How Has Technology Changed Teaching and learning?

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Learning?

What Is Considered Responsible Use of Technology?

 

Ch. 13: Your First Year as a Teacher 

What Can You Do to Prepare for Teaching?

How Can You Find Your First Teaching Position?

How Can You Benefit from Beginning Teacher Programs?

How Can You Survive and Grow in Your First Year?

    Teaching in America, Fourth Edition, is a unique active learning text that provides preservice teachers with comprehensive, current, and practical information about the profession of teaching and a realistic understanding of the foundations of education in America .

    The Fourth Edition maintains its unique, engaging “working-text” style, providing preservice teachers with extensive opportunities to interact with the text while establishing both the foundations of American education and a clear picture of the realities of contemporary teaching.   Readers reflect and respond directly within the book to issues raised in the chapters, thereby actively constructing knowledge and ideas about teaching. This approach enables future teachers to make the transition from thinking about being a teacher to identifying with the profession as active, confident participants. Teaching in America provides the reader with a firm understanding of education as an institution and as a career, as well as a comprehensive knowledge of teaching competencies and issues in education.

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    © 2006 | Merrill | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205453740 | ISBN-13: 9780205453740
    Brief Description

    Teaching in America, 5/e, is a hands-on, practical text that provides preservice teachers with comprehensive and current information about teaching in today’s diverse American classrooms.

     

    The Fifth Edition promises to be the most dynamic and practical to date. With a complete redesign; a host of new research, features, and exercises; as well as a new feature box designed specifically to show pre-service teachers how to use observation effectively, this text is sure to draw attention beyond its steady and loyal base. Its “working-text” style continues to provide preservice teachers with extensive opportunities to interact with the text while establishing both the foundations of American education and a clear picture of the realities of contemporary teaching. Its increased emphasis on accountability woven throughout the text and the marginal references to INTASC standards raise the

    readers’ awareness of key initiatives in education in the 21st century. The frequent and insightful questions sprinkled throughout each chapter require students to continually stop and reflect on how theories, research and current events are relevant to teaching practices. Teaching in America provides the reader with a firm understanding of education as an institution and as a career, as well as a comprehensive knowledge of teaching competencies and issues in education.
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    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205642675 | ISBN-13: 9780205642670
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    ISBN-10: 0205578624 | ISBN-13: 9780205578627
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    ISBN-10: 0205578608 | ISBN-13: 9780205578603
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    © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205592007 | ISBN-13: 9780205592005
    Brief Description

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    © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 648 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132338777 | ISBN-13: 9780132338776
    Brief Description

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    A clear, down-to-earth approach

     

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    ISBN-10: 0205641946 | ISBN-13: 9780205641949
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    Ogle & Beers
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205430937 | ISBN-13: 9780205430932
    Brief Description

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    ISBN-10: 0137147953 | ISBN-13: 9780137147953
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    Ormrod
    © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 504 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135016576 | ISBN-13: 9780135016572
    Brief Description

    • The first book of its kind, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses squarely on the core concepts, principles, and underlying assumptions of the field of educational psychology–the big ideas of ed psych.  Because of this focus and the book’s exceptionally direct and clear presentation, Essentials is a 10 chapter book that can truly be covered and understood in a term.  It is a book that enables and empowers students to understand the value and essential importance of educational psychology to becoming a qualified and quality teacher.

  • 0135035279Essentials of Educational Psychology (with MyEducationLab), 2/E
    Ormrod
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135035279 | ISBN-13: 9780135035276
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for it's innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
  • 0135144361Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (Book alone), 9/E
    Heward
    © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 656 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135144361 | ISBN-13: 9780135144367
    Brief Description

    • Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for its innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
  • 0135035295Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (with MyEducationLab), 9/E
    Heward
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135035295 | ISBN-13: 9780135035290
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    •  Exceptional Learners is an outstanding introduction to the characteristics of exceptional learners and their education, emphasizing classroom practices as well as the psychological, sociological, and medical aspects of disabilities and giftedness.  In keeping with this era of accountability, all discussions and examples of educational practices are grounded in a sound research base.

     

    With over 600 new references added to the 11th edition, the authors are committed to bringing the most current and credible perspectives to bear on the ever-increasing complexity of educating students with special needs in today’s schools.  The authors believe firmly that responsible instruction can help all students to maximize their potential, and they offer practical suggestions for ways in which educators can meet the educational needs of students with special needs and diverse abilities in collaborative environments that include families, other professionals, and the community. 

  • 013606793XExceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (with Cases for Reflection and Analysis and MyEducationLab), 11/E
    Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 656 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 013606793X | ISBN-13: 9780136067931
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

     

    The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.

  • 0205571069Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (Book alone), 5/E
    Friend & Bursuck
    © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205571069 | ISBN-13: 9780205571062
    Brief Description

    • This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

     

    The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.

  • 0205626815Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (with MyEducationLab), 5/E
    Friend & Bursuck
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205626815 | ISBN-13: 9780205626816
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • 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.

  • 0131192523Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (Book alone)
    Powell
    © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131192523 | ISBN-13: 9780131192522
    Brief Description

    • 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.
  • 0137147937Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (with MyEducationLab)
    Powell
    © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0137147937 | ISBN-13: 9780137147939
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • Language Arts: Patterns of Practice has long been a highly valued resource to pre-service teachers.  Built on a solid research base, this exceptionally applied and teacher-friendly text addresses all six language arts, modeling their integration into the curriculum through authentic student artifacts, classroom vignettes, and footage of master teachers in their language arts classrooms.  The seventh edition of the text, streamlined to provide a succinct, manageable model of language arts instruction, retains the rich classroom orientation, accessible writing style, and numerous features that have been the text’s hallmark, adding a sharpened focus on English Learners, deepened classroom application of the four patterns of practice, and integrated treatment of the almost limitless resources of the MyEducationLab website.  These new ideas and revisions have been crafted to help readers prepare for, plan for, and implement successful language arts instruction.   
  • 0137147767Language Arts: Patterns of Practice (with MyEducationLab), 7/E
    Tompkins
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0137147767 | ISBN-13: 9780137147762
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • This text emphasizes both constructivist and explicit strategies for teaching literacy to young children within an integrated language arts approach.

     

    With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, renowned author Lesley Morrow explores literacy development as an active process between children and adults to create meaning and real purpose. The Sixth Edition presents a theoretical and research-based rationale for its contents, as well as extensive practical applications to help students grasp the scope and the complexity of early literacy development.

     

    This Sixth Edition embraces integrated language arts and an interdisciplinary approach to literacy development as it addresses developing writing, reading, and oral language in the home and in school curriculum. The use of expository and narrative selections of children's literature is emphasized, as well as motivating children to become lifelong readers. This edition spends more time with strategies for preschool literacy and skill development in grades Pre-K through three. Both constructivist problem-solving teaching techniques and more explicit systematic instruction are discussed.

     

    Key to this Sixth edition is the expanded coverage in the assessment chapter of the importance of assessment-guided instruction. In addition, differentiation of instruction has been made a high priority, and much more attention has been paid to dealing with children from diverse backgrounds. There are also more practical examples of how teachers can put strategies into practice than in other editions, especially with the new supplementary perforated pages that can be torn out of the book for actual use with children.

  • 0205593259Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write (Book alone), 6/E
    Morrow
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205593259 | ISBN-13: 9780205593255
    Brief Description

    • This text emphasizes both constructivist and explicit strategies for teaching literacy to young children within an integrated language arts approach.

     

    With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, renowned author Lesley Morrow explores literacy development as an active process between children and adults to create meaning and real purpose. The Sixth Edition presents a theoretical and research-based rationale for its contents, as well as extensive practical applications to help students grasp the scope and the complexity of early literacy development.

     

    This Sixth Edition embraces integrated language arts and an interdisciplinary approach to literacy development as it addresses developing writing, reading, and oral language in the home and in school curriculum. The use of expository and narrative selections of children's literature is emphasized, as well as motivating children to become lifelong readers. This edition spends more time with strategies for preschool literacy and skill development in grades Pre-K through three. Both constructivist problem-solving teaching techniques and more explicit systematic instruction are discussed.

     

    Key to this Sixth edition is the expanded coverage in the assessment chapter of the importance of assessment-guided instruction. In addition, differentiation of instruction has been made a high priority, and much more attention has been paid to dealing with children from diverse backgrounds. There are also more practical examples of how teachers can put strategies into practice than in other editions, especially with the new supplementary perforated pages that can be torn out of the book for actual use with children.

  • 0205642632Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write (with MyEducationLab), 6/E
    Morrow
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205642632 | ISBN-13: 9780205642632
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

  • 020562670XMYEDUCATIONLAB: Where the classroom comes to life!
    Pearson
    © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
    ISBN-10: 020562670X | ISBN-13: 9780205626700
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