New publicationsIt's Your First Year Teaching... But You Don't Have to Act Like It
Rowman Education (formerly Scarecrow Education),
13 February 2004
It's Your First Year Teaching is written with the focus on those studying to become a teacher or those who have recently entered the teaching profession. Author Bob Kitchen complements a college education in teaching with practical advice, not 'teacher speak' rhetoric, to help prepare teachers to survive in a real-life classroom. This book includes sections detailing: how to find a job; how to prepare for the job; what to do and say on your first day; and how to handle various disciplinary situations that might arise throughout the first year of teaching. Kitchen offers advice, often with a humorous spin, that prospective teachers can use to help them survive their first year. (Adapted from publisher's description)
KLA Subject HeadingsTeaching professionTeacher training Professional development Classroom management Crisis management Using Video in Teacher Education: Advances in Research on Teaching
JAI Press,
December 2003
This book features contributions from people who have developed and used video resources in teacher education. Video footage can be stored on videotapes, CD-ROM, DVD or computer drives, and can be effectively used in both preservice or inservice teacher education programs. Contributors explain the nature of the videos they use in their teacher education programs and talk about how they use them, focusing in particular on principles for making videos and using video in teacher education. Topics include decisions about how and what to capture on video; the degree to which teaching should be scripted; segmenting and editing footage; and how viewings are structured and scaffolded by the teacher eudcator. Adapted from publisher's description)
KLA Subject HeadingsVideo recordings in educationTeaching and learning School equipment Professional development Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Teaching, Learning and the Meditative Mind
University Press of America,
May 2003
Though there is a general awareness of the need for change in education relative to school organisation, teaching and learning, curriculum and school administration, most of what is said about awareness is only partially processed in the mind of the reader. The need for profound, revolutionary change in the way we think about education is highlighted in this work. Author J. Richard Wingerter addresses the natural shortcomings of the mind's thinking process in an attempt to bring about concepts to advance contemporary education literature. (Adapted from publisher's description)
KLA Subject HeadingsTeaching and learningLearning ability Psychology Thought and thinking Behaviour management Reading Education philosophy Creating Effective Learning Environments
Delmar,
October 2003
There is an opinion that curriculum needs to be based on the strengths and needs of children. Information regarding these needs is gathered through careful observation and documentation, a method that is one of the cornerstones of curriculum development. The purpose of this text is to take curriculum development a step further by filling the gap between theory and practice. The text is designed to help the reader to look at curriculum from the perspective of the child and to understand how that perspective is linked to learning and theory. The book presents documentation of individuals and groups of children learning over time. Each curriculum discussion starts with children's real experiences. From these experiences, elements of theory are raised, explained and expanded. (Adapted from publisher's description).
KLA Subject HeadingsLearning abilityChild development Classroom management Students Teacher-student relationships Case studies Behaviour management Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness
Hoover Press,
May 2004
Parents seek to monitor how well their children are achieving and how their children's school ranks compared with others. In the USA, Congress, state legislators and citizens are increasingly insistent that objective testing and accountability are needed to measure the results of teaching. This book explores the professional, technical and public policy issues surrounding student achievement and teacher effectiveness, and brings this controversial issue, which often divides educators from parents and their elected representatives, to the foreground. The book shows how defective tests and standards and a lack of accountability cause American students to fall behind those of other countries, despite American schools' receiving almost the world's highest levels of per-student spending. The book takes on common objections to testing, reveals why they are false and tries to highlight how tests can help, even in a child's earliest years. Topics include diagnosing children's learning difficulties; measuring the impact of curriculum on specific aspects of achievement; and assessing teachers' strengths and weaknesses. (Adapted from publisher's description) KLA Subject HeadingsAssessmentLearning ability Child development United States of America (USA) Teacher-student relationships Parent and child Education aims and objectives Case studies |