Why Teach?
Title | Why Teach? PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edmundson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2014-08-12 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 162040642X |
Presents a collection of essays that explore a college education as a means through which serious-minded individuals broaden their minds and acquire life skills, arguing that higher learning is an essential remedy for today's problems.
Why We Teach
Title | Why We Teach PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Nieto |
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2005-06-25 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780807745939 |
In Memoriam for Julia Gardner.
When Are We Going to Teach Health?
Title | When Are We Going to Teach Health? PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Van Dusen |
Publisher | Lioncrest Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781544507613 |
Fact: Health improves learning. Yet nationwide, elementary school students spend twelve times more classroom hours studying history than health. Worse, most kids don't get enough physical activity and over 5 million underage youth vape. In When Are We Going to Teach Health?, Duncan Van Dusen, the CEO of one of the most widely used youth health education programs in the world, makes a novel, sometimes irreverent, case for prioritizing "Whole Child" health and SEL in K-12 schools. He shows why health drives academic success, what makes teaching health effective, and how to create a school environment that delivers and sustains healthy behavior. Using case studies, tips, and recommended actions, he describes proven youth empowerment and skills-based health education techniques to increase kids' physical activity and healthy food choices and to decrease youth vaping. Half of the proceeds from this book will fund health education in low-income schools.
The New Teacher Book
Title | The New Teacher Book PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Burant |
Publisher | Rethinking Schools |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0942961471 |
Teaching is a lifelong challenge, but the first few years in the classroom are typically a teacher's hardest. This expanded collection of writings and reflections offers practical guidance on how to navigate the school system, form rewarding relationships with colleagues, and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Title | For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Emdin |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0807028029 |
A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color, Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven Cs” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.
Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms
Title | Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy D. Walker |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1324001267 |
The best-selling book of easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world’s premier educational system—now available in paperback. Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, science, and reading. That was in 2001; even today, this tiny Nordic nation continues to amaze. How does Finnish education—with short school days, light homework loads, and little standardized testing—produce students who match the PISA scores of other nations with more traditional “work ethic” standards? When Timothy Walker started teaching fifth graders at a Helsinki public school, he began a search for the secrets behind the successes of Finland’s education system. Highlighting specific strategies that support joyful K–12 classrooms and can be integrated with U.S. educational standards, this book, available in paperback for the first time, gathers what he learned and shows how any teacher can implement many of Finland's best practices. A new foreword by the author addresses the urgent questions of teaching, and living, in these pandemic times.
And That Is Why We Teach
Title | And That Is Why We Teach PDF eBook |
Author | Patti Graham |
Publisher | Nelson Publishing&Marketing |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2008-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1933916230 |
This beautifully illustrated watercolor book is a collection of prose writings that celebrate the wonderful contributions that teachers make to encourage the growth and formation of children at all levels. Each page has its own story of what teachers do from team builders, cheerleaders, ambassadors and more.