Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching

Powell, Sara D.

ISBN 10: 0133563286 ISBN 13: 9780133563283

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

Synopsis

Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Your Introduction to Education and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with the loose-leaf version, use ISBN 0133831035 .   Y our Introduction to Education takes future teachers into an authentic clroom to empower them to explore content and clrooms, reflect on what they’re learning, and develop a sense of the kind of teacher they aspire to be. In these pages, readers discover whether teaching is for them and, if so, what they may be like as teachers tomorrow. Here readers explore the concepts through the real-life experiences of 10 teachers and 12 students from four schools across the urban, suburban, and rural landscape of the United States. It’s a real-life demonstration of what teaching is really like through clroom scenarios and person-to-person interactions, both by word and through hours of video. Today’s current, relevant issues in education are discussed in engaging ways, and both the art and service of teaching and the science of teaching are presented in an accessible writing style that grabs and keeps students’ interest as they move through the concepts they will encounter in their own clrooms one day. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video, embedded audio, and chapter review questions.   Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: Engaging.  The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient.  Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* Affordable.

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From the Back Cover

Your Introduction to Education, 3/e, takes future teachers into an authentic classroom to empower them to explore content and classrooms, reflect on what they're learning, and develop a sense of the kind of teacher they aspire to be. In these pages, readers discover whether teaching is for them and, if so, what they may be like as teachers tomorrow. The book explores the concepts by weaving the real-life experiences of 10 teachers and 12 students from four schools across the urban, suburban, and rural landscape of the United States. The result is a real-life demonstration of what teaching is really like through classroom scenarios and person-to-person interactions, both by word and through hours of video. Today's current, relevant issues in education are discussed in engaging ways, and both the art and service of teaching and the science of teaching are presented in an accessible writing style that grabs and keeps students' interest as they move through the concepts they will encounter in their own classrooms one day.

• Built entirely on authentic classroom experience to empower future teachers to explore content and classrooms, reflect on their learning, and develop an image of the teacher they aspire to be.
• Discusses and illustrates current, relevant issues in education in engaging ways, including OpEd features, socialMEdia features, and chapter-opening Dear Reader letters.

About the Author

Sara Davis Powell has been a classroom teacher of children, adolescents, and adults for four decades, in elementary, middle, and high schools, and in college undergraduate and graduate programs. She currently is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina and is active in the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Middle Level Education, ASCD Learn. Teach. Lead., and Kappa Delta Pi. In addition to being a frequent conference speaker and facilitator of professional development for K-12 schools, she has authored many articles and several books including the college text Introduction to Middle Level Education (Pearson, 3e, 2015). Sara is the mother of four grown sons and lives with her husband Rus in a cottage on the Catawba River.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133563286
• ISBN 13: 9780133563283
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 422