Hot-Button Issues for Teachers: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Leadership, Testing, Textbooks, Vouchers, and More
Autor Philip D. Vairo, Sheldon Marcus, Max Weineren Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2007
Hot-Button Issues for Teachers is a timely, comprehensive book that addresses more than 100 educational issues that are facing our schools, children, and especially teachers. These issues include:
·Teacher Education
·Merit Pay
·Unions
·Classroom Management
·Textbook Selection
·Professional Relationships
·School Safety
This book should be of interest to all of those in the teaching profession.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781578866274
ISBN-10: 1578866278
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția R&L Education
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1578866278
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția R&L Education
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part 1 PART I: The Teaching Profession Today
Chapter 2 The Status of the Teaching Profession: Where Are We Going?
Chapter 3 Decision-Makers Influencing Educational Policy: Who Are They?
Chapter 4 Competition in the Educational Scene Today: Is This A New Era?
Part 5 PART II: The Teacher and the Marketplace
Chapter 6 The Professional Preparation of Teachers: What Is the Remedy?
Chapter 7 Job Hunting and Mobility: What Should You Know?
Chapter 8 Merit Pay: Has Its Day Arrived?
Chapter 9 Teacher Unions and Collective Bargaining: What Are Your Views?
Chapter 10 Teaching Performance and Accountability: Problems or Opportunities?
Chapter 11 Mobility in the Profession: Politics or Merit?
Part 12 PART III: Effective Learning and Teaching
Chapter 13 Effective Classroom Management: Can It Be Achieved?
Chapter 14 Curriculum and Textbook Selection: What Needs to Be Changed?
Chapter 15 National Standards: What Are the Dangers?
Chapter 16 Tests and Other Evaluation Tools: Are They Fair?
Chapter 17 The Grading System: How Do You Handle It?
Chapter 18 Teaching Controversial Issues: Should They Be Included in the Curriculum?
Chapter 19 Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groupings: Which Do You Prefer?
Chapter 20 Homework: Too Little or Too Much?
Chapter 21 Parent-Teacher-Principal Relationships: Can They Be Effective?
Part 22 PART IV: Evolving Issues
Chapter 23 The Extended School Year: Are We Ready for It?
Chapter 24 Separate Schools for the Sexes and School Uniforms: Are Old Ideas Returning?
Chapter 25 Teacher Burnout: Myth or Reality?
Chapter 26 School Safety and Violence: Is There a Solution?
Chapter 27 The Middle School: Is it Effective?
Chapter 28 Political and Social Activism in the School: What Are the Pros and Cons?
Chapter 29 Liberal Arts and Teacher Preparation: Friends or Mortal Enemies?
Chapter 30 Science and Mathematics: Where Are They?
Chapter 31 Tips for Teachers: How Can You Be an Effective Classroom Teacher?
Chapter 2 The Status of the Teaching Profession: Where Are We Going?
Chapter 3 Decision-Makers Influencing Educational Policy: Who Are They?
Chapter 4 Competition in the Educational Scene Today: Is This A New Era?
Part 5 PART II: The Teacher and the Marketplace
Chapter 6 The Professional Preparation of Teachers: What Is the Remedy?
Chapter 7 Job Hunting and Mobility: What Should You Know?
Chapter 8 Merit Pay: Has Its Day Arrived?
Chapter 9 Teacher Unions and Collective Bargaining: What Are Your Views?
Chapter 10 Teaching Performance and Accountability: Problems or Opportunities?
Chapter 11 Mobility in the Profession: Politics or Merit?
Part 12 PART III: Effective Learning and Teaching
Chapter 13 Effective Classroom Management: Can It Be Achieved?
Chapter 14 Curriculum and Textbook Selection: What Needs to Be Changed?
Chapter 15 National Standards: What Are the Dangers?
Chapter 16 Tests and Other Evaluation Tools: Are They Fair?
Chapter 17 The Grading System: How Do You Handle It?
Chapter 18 Teaching Controversial Issues: Should They Be Included in the Curriculum?
Chapter 19 Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groupings: Which Do You Prefer?
Chapter 20 Homework: Too Little or Too Much?
Chapter 21 Parent-Teacher-Principal Relationships: Can They Be Effective?
Part 22 PART IV: Evolving Issues
Chapter 23 The Extended School Year: Are We Ready for It?
Chapter 24 Separate Schools for the Sexes and School Uniforms: Are Old Ideas Returning?
Chapter 25 Teacher Burnout: Myth or Reality?
Chapter 26 School Safety and Violence: Is There a Solution?
Chapter 27 The Middle School: Is it Effective?
Chapter 28 Political and Social Activism in the School: What Are the Pros and Cons?
Chapter 29 Liberal Arts and Teacher Preparation: Friends or Mortal Enemies?
Chapter 30 Science and Mathematics: Where Are They?
Chapter 31 Tips for Teachers: How Can You Be an Effective Classroom Teacher?
Recenzii
As a teacher with over 25 years of experience, I recommend this book without reservation. It is pragmatic, realistic, and succinctly covers the issues that all of us face everyday. This book is a reading must for my colleagues in the teaching profession.
The authors have put together a candid, frank review of teaching, teachers, and schooling that should be required reading for all teachers and school administrators. Reading this book should open the door for lively discussions in faculty rooms and staff development seminars in our profession.
Recommended.
Vairo, Marcus, and Weiner, have compiled a very timely and informative text that discusses crucial issues facing the teaching profession. Every educator and the general public should include this book on their reading list.
The authors have put together a candid, frank review of teaching, teachers, and schooling that should be required reading for all teachers and school administrators. Reading this book should open the door for lively discussions in faculty rooms and staff development seminars in our profession.
Recommended.
Vairo, Marcus, and Weiner, have compiled a very timely and informative text that discusses crucial issues facing the teaching profession. Every educator and the general public should include this book on their reading list.