Becoming a Teacher (Web Edition) - Hardcover

Parkay, Forrest W.; Stanford, Beverly Hardcastle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 020529944X ISBN 13: 9780205299447

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

Study! Organize! Succeed!  Our S.O.S Edition for Becoming a Teacher, 6/e, offers a personalized study and review system that helps students master what it takes to be a professional teacher, save time studying, and perform better on exams.  Our well-rounded program includes a paperback text with built-in, perforated Practice Tests, live tutoring assistance from our Tutor Center service, and access to our diagnostic testing and review system. 

Designed specifically to help enhance performance, this S.O.S. Edition’s diagnostic testing system gauges students’ prior knowledge of content and creates a unique Individualized Study Plan to help each student pinpoint exactly where additional study and review is needed.  Students can follow the plan as a guide to focus their efforts and improve upon their areas of weakness with one-on-one assistance from our qualified tutors and/or by utilizing the printed Practice Tests.  Additional testing features in this program help students assess their progress with the textbook material to reach their ultimate goal of success in your course.

Becoming a Teacher, 6/e, helps students make difficult decisions about their teaching future by fostering an awareness of the realities of teaching in America today.  With the S.O.S. Edition tools, you have a powerful combination to help your students test with confidence–and complete your course with greater comprehension and higher grades.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Becoming a Teacher, Eighth Edition provides future teachers with a motivational and realistic look at what it means to be a teacher today.  Through its inviting prose, glimpses into real classrooms, and hallmark Dear Mentor feature, Becoming a Teacher places readers in the shoes of real teachers, helping them determine: is teaching for me ? 

 

Presents the Realities of Teaching Today.  Take a look inside real classrooms through the following features:

• Dear Mentor – All new – Offers experienced teachers’ advice about new teachers’ commonly asked questions and concerns.
• New!  Teaching on Your Feet – Shows how teachers make important, spontaneous decisions that can turn negative situations into positive outcomes.
• Teachers’ Voices: Research to Reality – Nine new articles – Illustrates how chapter content applies to real classroom situations. 
• Teachers’ Voices: Walk in My Shoes – Nine new reflections – Shares real teachers’ insights, challenges, and accomplishments in the classroom.   

 

Presents the Latest Trends in Technology and Teaching.  Take a look at new advances in teaching technology through the following features:

• New!  Chapter 12, Integrating Technology into Teaching – Explores how technology is transforming teaching and learning today.  
• New!  Technology in Action – Shows how teachers can use technology to enhance student learning, and gives readers opportunities to try it out themselves. 

 

Offers Innovative Learning Technology.  Take control of your learning throughMyEducationLab, a research-based learning tool that brings teaching in today’s classrooms to life.  Through authentic in-classroom video, student artifacts, research articles and more, MyEducationLab prepares you for your teaching career.  MyEducationLab for this text includes:

• Chapter Study Plans – Offers quizzes to test mastery of chapter objectives.
• Review, Practice, and Enrichment – Provides exercises to deepen understanding of chapter content.
• Activities and Application – Fosters application of chapter concepts.
• Virtual Field Experience – Provides additional video activities for students who are unable to visit real schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 020529944X
• ISBN 13: 9780205299447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 584