Teachers, Schools, and Society with Student CD-ROM - Hardcover

Sadker, David M.; Sadker, Myra P.; Zittleman, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073331619 ISBN 13: 9780073331614

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Synopsis

The most reader friendly text in its field, the eighth edition presents a comprehensive overview of education in America. It provides in-depth commentary on educational history, philosophy, and governance, while giving special attention to current critical topics such as student diversity, standards and testing. New to this edition is a broader coverage of different kinds of diversities, with a new Chapter 3 focusing on multicultural education and group diversity. Chapter 2 is now focused on different ways of learning, with new sections on how gender relates to learning styles and on GLBT students; additionally, coverage of different groups (formerly in Chapter 12: The Struggle for Educational Opportunity) is now integrated throughout the text. Also new to this edition is an integration of the most recent uses of technology in the classroom, allowing readers to consider the influence of technology alongside the topic at hand whether it be curricular issues, learner diversity, or teacher effectiveness. For the Instructor, Sadker is accompanied by a new Instructor Resource, PrepCenter. PrepCenter is the when-ever, where-ever, how-ever approach to creating a more engaging classroom experience every time you step in front of your class. This new online instructor resource allows you to search our assets by chapter, by concept, or by media type.

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Readability. The text's readability makes it accessible and engaging for the student. The authors use different approaches throughout to convey information to make the text as interesting as possible. They use humor and an accessible writing style to involve and challenge the student in active reading.
The Interactive Text. Interactive Activities and the chapter-opening What Do You Think? opinion poll activity link students to the Online Learning Center. Examples of Interactive Activities include practicing with the pedagogical cycle, identifying philosophical approaches, labeling timelines, and viewing different types of educational technology. Each chapter ends with a link to the Online Learning Center that lists the resources available. The Online Learning Center is designed to be an interactive extension of the text.
Annotated Instructor's Edition. The new AIE provides instructional ideas and links key supplements to the content through approximately 40 annotations per chapter. Features include Teaching Tips, Critical Thinking Questions, Class Activities and Grabbers, Global Views, and Multiple Intelligences Connections in addition to traditional features and referencing of supplemental material.
Interactive Pedagogy. As a whole, the pedagogical system as been made interactive through reflection questions. New pedagogical features include You Be the Judge (a revised and expanded version of the popular Balance Sheets), Profile in Education (an expanded version of Profile in Teaching), Photo-synthesis (an expanded version of Photos in Contrast), and Reel to Real Teaching (a listing of education-related movies).
Chapter Reorganization. A Question-and-Answer Guide to Entering the Teaching Profession has been moved to Chapter 15. Student Diversity (Ch. 2) now precedes Teacher Effectiveness. Philosophy of Education (Ch. 9) now follows The History of American Education.
New Content. Philosophy of Education has been extensively revised. In additional to a solid presentation of educational philosophies, this chapter now includes more diverse coverage of philosophy with specific new content added on key female figures. New topics added throughout the text include Social Reconstructionism, cultural deficit and cultural difference theories, and a discussion of financial court battles surrounding adequate education.
Online Learning Center. The Online Learning Center has been expanded as a student resource to include both a comprehensive Student Study Guide (with practice quizzes, objectives, main points, key terms, and practice activities with key terms) and content extending the text (Interactive Activities, What Do You Think? opinion poll, In the News updates, Web Links, additional Class Acts, electronic Inter-missions forms, and additional coverage not found in the text). Due to the great wealth of information of the site, the Online Learning Center has been password protected. Students receive a free password card with the purchase of a new text. Password cards can be purchased separately.
Video Program. The Teachers, Schools, and Society video program has been expanded to provide at least one video clip per chapter (in many cases, there are several). Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Video Companion has been revised to include segments on meeting special needs, cooperative learning, alternate assessments, immigrant students, curriculum design, standards, philosophy in the classroom, a school board meeting, academic controversy, identifying classroom bias, technology in instruction, and multiple intelligences. In addition, the Only a Teacher video series (as seen on PBS) is available with the text. This three-video series chronicles the history of the American teacher and includes both extensive historical coverage and contemporary classroom scenes. Segments from all of the videos are keyed to each chapter in the Annotated Instructor's Edition.
Comprehensive Coverage. Teachers, Schools, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to education and teaching. Part I: Teachers and Students discusses what teaching is like today - opportunities, students and teachers; Part II: Schools and Curriculum looks at schools and curriculum; Part III: Foundations presents the foundations of education; and Part IV: Tomorrow discusses equal opportunity, technology, and what the student can expect in her first classroom.
Technology Coverage. Technology in Education (Ch. 13) has been revised to provide the most current coverage of technology in education - the latest computer technologies and how they are being used in schools, and how technology is affecting education. Technology-related coverage is integrated throughout the text as appropriate.
Purposeful Pedagogy. Proven features include Class Acts (part-opening vignettes), In the News (briefs on current issues in education), and Inter-missions (part-ending portfolio activities keyed to INTASC standards). Chapter pedagogy includes Focus Questions, Chapter Preview, Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions and Activities, and For Further Reading.
Supplements. The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources including a new Annotated Instructor's Edition; an Instructor's Manual/Test Bank (with extensive, creative activities; and added test questions as well as a new alternative assessment activity for each chapter); a computerized Test Bank, an Instructor's Resource CD-Rom (with the Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoints); Full-Color text-specific Overhead Transparencies; The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Education Overhead Transparencies and PowerPoint slides; the video program; the Online Learning Center (that includes instructor resources in additional to student resources); and a Making the Grade CD-Rom (with practice quizzes for students).
A Diversity-Focused Approach. The text includes an integrated, multicultural/diversity-oriented approach in all chapters, including the most comprehensive coverage of the roles and experiences of girls and women.
Scholarship. The text has been updated to include the most current scholarship.
Portfolio Activities. The Inter-missions sections at the end of each part provide portfolio activities keyed to the INTASC standards. Available for packaging are Rieman, Teaching Portfolios and FolioLive.

About the Author:

David Sadker has taught in middle and senior high schools, as well as at the college level, and has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and American University (Washington, DC) for more than three decades. He and his late wife Myra Sadker, gained a national reputation for research and publications concerning the impact of gender in schools. (To learn more about Myras life and work, visit www.sadker.org). Dr. Sadker has degrees from CCNY, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts. He has written several books and numerous articles in both professional and popular journals. He co-authored Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, (Touchstone Press in 1995), and his research has been reported in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including USA Today, USA Weekend, Parade Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, The London Times, The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek. He has appeared on local and national television and radio shows such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Phil Donahues The Human Animal, National Public Radios All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, and twice on Dateline: NBC with Jane Pauley. The Sadkers received the American Educational Research Associations award for the best review of research published in the United States (1991), their professional service award in 1995, and their Willystine Goodsell award in 2004. The Sadkers were recognized with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from The American Association of University Women in 1995, and the Gender Architect Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in 2001. David Sadker has received two honorary doctorates.

Myra Pollack Sadker (1943-1995) pioneered much of the research documenting gender bias in America's schools. She was Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education at American University. She died while undergoing treatment for breast cancer in 1995. Through her writings and lectures, Myra Sadker alerted Americans to the academic, physical, psychological and career costs of sexism. She wrote the first book for teachers on the issue of sexism in 1973. Over twenty years later, in 1994, she coauthored the first popular book on this topic: Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls. Between these two publications, Myra Sadker brought her cause for educational equity to a national audience. Along with her husband David, Myra Sadker spoke in more than forty states and overseas, giving hundreds of presentations and workshops for teachers and parents concerned with the negative impact of sexist behaviors. She wrote scores of articles on how to raise and teach children free from the debilitating impact of sexism. In her name, Myra Sadker Advocates was established to continue her efforts and create more equitable and effective schools. You are invited to learn more about Myras contributions and the work of Myra Sadker Advocates, including Myra Sadker Day March 5th, by visiting the website established in her name: www.sadker.org.

Karen R. Zittleman came to American University as a graduate student, worked with Dr. Sadker on gender equity research, then began researching teacher education issues, and now has graduated to co-author of this text. Karen brings both energy and insights to this textbook. Karen attended the University of Wisconsin for her bachelors degree, and American University for her masters and doctorate. She teaches at American Universitys School of Education, and has been a virtual teacher for several courses offered online through the Womens Educational Equity Act. Her articles about gender, Title IX, and teacher education appear in the Journal of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, Principal and other professional journals. She is a contributing author to Teaching and Gender Equity: Foundations, Skills, Methods and Strategies (Lawrence Erlbaum publishers), and has created several equity websites. Karen has also authored Making Public Schools Great for Every Girl and Boy, an instructional guide on promoting equity in math and science instruction (National Educational Association), and educational film guides for A Hero for Daisy and Apple Pie: Raising Champions. She is project manager for Myra Sadker Advocates. Karens research interests have focused on educational equity, foundations of education, teacher preparation, and spirituality in education.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073331619
• ISBN 13: 9780073331614
• Binding: Hardcover