Exploring Teaching: An Introduction to Education - Softcover

Winitzky; Arends; Tannenbaum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072321806 ISBN 13: 9780072321807

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001

Synopsis

This text takes students contemplating careers in teaching on a journey of exploration into the world and work of teaching and into themselves as future teachers. The book makes a sustained effort to help students decide whether teaching is the right career for them. The focus is on what teachers really do, on the realities of the classroom, and on the instructional demands teachers face. Part 1 provides an overview of teaching and teachers, while parts 2 through 5 profile the various contexts of teaching (classroom, school, sociopolitical, and professional) and examine the role demands of each context. Each part ends with self-assessment activities (reflection, observation, interview, and portfolio) that help students evaluate themselves in terms of these roles and settings.

About this title

From the Publisher

NEW! Now in hardcover, the second edition features a friendly, inviting, one-column, full-color design with new art and many more photographs to visually engage students.
NEW! A new complete technology chapter provides the most current information on how technology has and will continue to transform education. It explores how technology currently is changing classroom life and how it may impact teaching for your students in their classrooms.
MARGIN ANNOTATIONS: New key points and definitions printed in text margins help students focus on the most important material.
CASE STUDIES:Two new case study features begin and conclude each chapter. Each chapter now immediately engages the student with an opening case called 'What Do You Think?' that introduces a situation. Then, after the student has read the related material in the chapter, the 'End Case for Reflection' presents the viewpoints of two or more teachers about the chapter case.
ICONS: The recurring Context Icon helps students put the content they read into the expanding contexts of teaching in classrooms, family and community, society, and the teaching profession.
EXPANDED COVERAGE:The second edition has expanded coverage of multiculturalism, of parents and their families, and of the history of American education (through the unique part-opening sections).
HISTORY TIMELINES:Each major part of the text now opens with a timeline and a visual essay of the history and evolution of education to help put into context Exploring Teaching's unique part-opening history sections. These extended history sections individually present the history relevant to the content in the following chapters, and together, provide a comprehensive narrative of the history of American education.
BOXED FEATURES:Many new Research, Issues, and Diversity boxes throughout the chapters provide more depth to topics of interest to students, give greater understanding, and spark interest in further study.
FREE STUDENT CD:The 'Making the Grade' Student CD-ROM is packaged free with every copy of the second edition. This CD includes a learning styles assessment, an Internet primer, a Guide to Electronic Research, a study skills primer, a link to the Exploring Teaching Online Learning Center Web site, and 15-25 test questions per chapter, with feedback.
CONTEXTS FRAMEWORK:Material is presented in an expanding, integrative way from a focus on self to the ever-widening contexts of the classroom, the school, society, and the profession.
DIVERSITY:Coverage of diversity is integrated throughout the text.
UNIQUE HISTORY TREATMENT: Rather than including the traditional fact-laden chapter on the history of American education, each part opens with a 10+ page historical perspective on the material in the chapters that follow. Each part now begins with a timeline to help put the following material into context.
REFLECTION AND PORTFOLIOS: Part-ending Application and Portfolio Activities prompt students to reflect on their reading.
COMPING GUIDELINE:Heavily entrenched market; send vastly improved 2e to all you did not win for Sadker 5e; requires follow-up with personal visit to show off new 2e.
BOOK'S POSITION: Exploring Teaching: An Introduction to Teaching is the only text to make a sustained effort to help students decide whether teaching is the right career for them. There is much more of a focus than found in other texts on wht teachers really do, on the realities of the classroom, and on the instructional demands teachers face.

About the Author

Richard I. Arends is currently Professor of Educational Leadership at Connecticut State University where he also served as dean of the School of Education for nine years. Prior to his coming to Connecticut, Professor Arends was on the faculty and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oregon where he was on the faculty from 1975 to 1984. A former elementary, junior high, and high school teacher, his special interests are teacher education, and organizational development, and school improvement. Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Second Handbook or Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Classroom Instruction and Management and Exploring Teaching. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America, in Jamaica, and in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland and in 1990 received the Judith Ruskin award for outstanding research in education given by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Between 1995-97 Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Chair in the School of Education at Seattle University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072321806
• ISBN 13: 9780072321807
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624