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For better or for worse, the goal of securing tenure-track assistant professorships frames the graduate school experience for most students. Yet what the graduate experience boasts in scholarly training it lacks in institutional training—that is, in guiding future faculty members to see and experience positively the wide variety of prospective professional identities rooted in assorted academic cultures.

Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life gives voice to diversity in postsecondary
education, a strength of the system rather than a problem to redress. Contributors, whether they work at a private high school or a public comprehensive university, an open-access institution or a religiously affiliated college, disclose to readers the details and outcomes of their cross-sector transitions. Their accounts show how faculty members from a range of institutions have built rewarding professional lives based on the traditional components of the professoriat—teaching, service, and scholarship. ... Read more

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A must read for anyone who wants to understand the mind of an educator
Teaching is not a one-size fits all thing. Many educators do their job in many different ways. "Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life" takes a widespread look at education and the very different applications of it at vastly different levels. With stories ranging from the opinions of a PhD teaching a public high school class, teaching in rural areas, finding one's voice when one is not quite senior enough to be immediately respected, and much more, it's a wide sampling of many voices of Academia. Enhanced with a bibliography and index, "Academic Cultures" is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the mind of an educator.
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Recent years have seen rapid growth in the numbers of children being taught foreign languages at younger ages. While course books aimed at young learners are appearing on the market, there is scant theoretical reference in the teacher education literature. This book is one of the few to develop readers' understanding of what happens in classrooms where children are being taught a foreign language. It will offer teachers and trainers a coherenttheoretical framework to structure thinking about children's language learning. The book gives practical advice on how to analyse and evaluate classroom activities, language use and language development. Examples from classrooms in Europe and Asia will help bring alive the realities of working with young learners of English. ... Read more

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A user-friendly mindfulness guide for teachers and their students
As a mindfulness mentor in two local school districts, I was delighted to find Deborah's book which provides such succinct, yet complete methods teachers can use to develop mindfulness in their own lives, both before and after school and then to embody its awareness, balance and compassion in their classes. The book gives a variety of practices to use with students, which will be of much help in relaxing, focusing and motivating them at any K-12 level and in any curriculum.It is the only book so far that seems to address all of these needs in a very user friendly, yet deep and caring way.

As an educator with over 30 years of teaching experience at all levels, I look forward to using it in two local school districts as well as in other organizations here in the Modesto, California, area.

The title is true!
The lessons this book has to offer are simple and easy to relate to yet important enough to affect the way you choose to live your life. Everyone can benefit from this!

Great book for Educators
This a lovely book that explores a new (though in some ways very old) approach to educating the whole child, both mind and heart. Relevant for all educators who seek to teach with greater ease and effectiveness. Highly recommended!

GREAT RESOURCE
The ideas in this book have allowed me to deal with situation far more successfully from sports coaching to within my own staff. Truly a great read!

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Educators, this book is for you.
Even educators with well established mindfulness practices can find it a challenge to maintain mindfulness at work.What might mindful teaching look like?What can one do to support it?Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything by Deborah Schoeberlein (Wisdom Publications, available in early September) answers these questions.It's an important new resource for all teachers, regardless of their previous experience with mindfulness practice.In her book, Schoeberlein paints a detailed picture of a day in the life of a mindful teacher.The day begins with waking up to mindful breathing and setting an intention.It ends that night with meditating on one's satisfaction with the day.In between, there are many informal practices, described by Schoeberlein, which teachers can use throughout the school day, on their own or in their interactions with students.These descriptions aren't a prescription for mindful teaching.Rather, they provide examples that can inspire teachers to find ways to infuse their days with mindfulness that work for them.

Teaching mindfully is already a great gift to students. It's where many teachers might stop, not feeling that teaching mindfulness practices to their students is possible in their situation.However, mindful teaching changes classroom environments, creating new opportunities.Further, Schoeberlein's many examples of ways to teach mindfulness can suggest possibilities for such teaching even with what might seem to be the most challenging student populations and curricula.Schoeberlein gives formal instructions for each student mindfulness activity.However, as with her informal teacher practices and with the approaches described in my book, Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning, these examples best serve to inspire teachers to develop approaches that fit their specific situations.

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Designing and Teaching Learning Goals and Objectives is the first in a series of books collectively referred to as the Classroom Strategies That Work library. The purpose of this series is to provide classroom teachers with practical, research-based instructional strategies that have been proven to enhance student achievement. Each book includes a short summary of the key research before showing how to apply it in step-by-step, hands-on strategies. Short quizzes help readers assess their understanding of the instructional best practices explained in each section.Designing and Teaching Learning Goals and Objectives can be used as a self-study, how-to text to effectively understand, design, and teach classroom goals and objectives. At the onset, this text turns the strongest research and theory on goal setting into easy-to-follow instructional strategies and shows the effect of well-taught, well-designed goals and objectives on student learning. Packed with Reproducibles, practical exercises, and engaging quizzes, it can be used for independent study, team learning, or facultywide. Following the useful instructional strategies and specific classroom applications, with Designing and Teaching Learning Goals and Objectives all teachers will be able to create clear and focused instructional activities to ensure learning for all students. ... Read more

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With a focus on using portfolios to show one's work throughout a professional teaching career, this compact, easy-to-read volume provides prospective and current teachers both the foundation and the specifics to be successful in their portfolio building endeavors. A two-part organization serves a two-fold purpose: first, setting the stage for portfolio building for students and novice teachers who have yet to engage in this activity; and, second, presenting a menu of topics from which more experienced educators can choose to inform their creation of targeted, results-oriented portfolios for a variety of situations ... Read more

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Great!!!!
The book I recieved is perfect especially the price thanks for keeping this books so low even a future teacher can afford.

Five-Star Guide
A great guide for student teachers and tenured teachers alike. Great guide for layout and format, what to include as well as what to exclude. Easy to use format where you don't have to sit and read, you can flip to where you need to and start. It offered a great deal in the development of a standards-based portfolio which can easily be adapted to a traditional portfolio. I definitely recommend it over many others I scoured and wasn't satisfied with.

great book
This a very user friendly book that I would recomend to anyone needing to make a portfolio.

Second Edition of Text on Trend-Setting Issue
Inauthentic (standardized) assessment in early childhood education is out while authentic (porfolio) assessment is in.

This second edition picks right up where Edition One stopped with a bit more sheen and polish.Bullock and Hawk cover the preliminary preparations for "thinking porfolio" and take the professional educator through the in and outs of constructing a useful data set that will reveal the information that you desire about your student's learning and development.

A little bit pricey (unless you get the hardback), but worth it.

Good Book
I have to do a portfolio for a college course and am finding this very helpful. ... Read more

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"This handbook will both encourage and assist those teachers who take on the important challenge of helping their students to think deeply and resourcefully and to use that intellectual power constructively."
--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools

Walks teachers through the "teaching for understanding" process. The authors offer classroom examples, practical tips, and worksheets to help clarify the process. They also show how to select engaging and appropriate topics, set coherent unit and course goals, create dynamic learning activities, improve student performance through continual feedback, and more.

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Wonderful book for educators
This is an outstanding short book for teachers of all ages. It presents a good summary of ideas and suggestions that work in classrooms and that are based on solid research. The book is nicely structured to be used by a single teacher or as a faculty looking to improve their students' learning.

understand what you do.
This book rekindled my love for teaching. It reminded me of Tales of the Dolly Llama, by Guy Kuttner. Both go to the heart of education, if you don't understand, discard it.

Excellent Book
This book was very helpful to me while developing a learning program for a class on Teaching for Understanding.It really gave me step-by-step detailed information on how the teaching for understanding pedagogy works, in a clear, useable format.

Great opportunity to reflect on the nature of understanding.
This guide presents the Teaching for Understanding framework in highly readable and concrete ways.The guide asks teachers to explore what they most want their students to understand, helps them evaluate their currentpractice and asks teachers to evaluate how well they know if their studentsunderstand what they are teaching.

In each chapter comments by teachersand students involved in this process are shared.They are most helpful asare the brainstorming chart and the reflection checklist in chapter8.

I'll never look at assessment,planning, goals and objectives in quitethe same way that I used to before reading this book.I am challenged byits ideas to act to change my practice. ... Read more

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The argument of this book is that the earliest tradition of Western rhetoric, the classical perspective of Aristotle and Cicero, continues to have the greatest impact on writing instruction--albeit an unconscious impact. ... Read more

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Groundbreaking work
Dr's Knoblauch and Brannon surprised the functionalist and expressivist writing/teaching establishment in 1984 with this work.Older and less effective paradigms would have it that being able to write is something the teacher can give you, or is a matter of getting the form correct.Real writers don't write like teachers teach students to write, and this seems to be why my own adult students say they left school hating writing.

Writing is a reflective practice whereby the writer brings self,world, and text together in an organic process to create a new image on the page.Although it can be encouraged and fostered through practice and guidance, it cannot be dictated. Since much traditionalist teaching is didactic, students most often sit passively and are not engaged in their own learning processes.

This is why this book is so valuable. It is more reflective of real world writing practice and sets forth a new way to teach writing in a positive direction: through writing workshops.

20 years later we still see students leaving high school with little or no ability to express themselves in writing, and thus display what they know in life, business or in college courses. Neither learning nor writing should be a passive exercise, yet year after year we still see that our students fail to reach the literacy levels needed for creative expressions of self or to engage in more than superficial educational discourse.

If you want the curative combination to students thinking education is a no-brainer and you want the inside track on how to really teach writing to engage students, get the book. ... Read more

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In this powerful, eloquent, and timely book, Barzun offers guidance for resolving the crisis in America's schools and colleges. Drawing on a lifetime of distinguished teaching, he issues a clear call to action for improving what goes on in America's classrooms. ... Read more

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Concise common sense
At long last, a book on education that does not skirt the issues or waste the reader's precious time on experimental proposals with no proven effectiveness!

Begin Here (sorry--don't know how to italicize on the 'net) is a series of articles and essays written over the years on the subject of education.I have tremendous respect for Barzun as a man of letters and as a writer; if I ever possess half his range of knowledge and gift of expression, I will be very fortunate.His ability to identify underlying principles and their results is astounding, and the essays in this book are so filled with wisdom that I want to stand up and cheer at the end of each one!I sorely regret that either he is not younger or I am not older--those who had the privilege of having him teach one or more of their courses have been abundantly blessed indeed.

The bottom line:If you want to sit around and wring your hands helplessly while bewailing America's educational problems, you'd best keep shopping.But if you want to cut the political nonsense and demand results, not excuses, this book is indeed the place to begin.

The revival of common sense
This book is far from original, and its influence upon me was sobering, not life-changing.

Barzun, the near-ancient Columbia scholar, argues simple truths rather than attempting to glorify the fads in today's educational system. He advocates the value of effort in achieving results in schools--and the results themselves are to be simple to account for ("rudiments," such as reading, writing, or drawing) instead of touting abstract and platitudinous "goals," "objectives," or "doctrines."

As a college student, I found his musings about the state of higher education even more inspiring. In line with the full title of the book, he writes of the forgotten conditions of teaching and learning in the face of over-politicisation and drive to "re-search" of modern colleges. He also stresses the deliberate detachment of academic institutions from the mundane goings-on in the rest of the society for the sole purpose of pursuing knowledge. Instead, the modern establishment of higher learning (?) feels incomplete without an array of "social justice" undertakings in place both in its curriculum and interaction with the world outside.

I think every thinking person who believes in common sense would enjoy Barzun's writings.

Well written and argued critique
There are many ideas in this devastating critique of contemporary universities and of the educational system in general.

According to Barzun, the advent of making research profitable (through grants, thepublish-or-perish mentality, etc.) has fatally wounded universities. Before this, teachers were teachers first.Research was conducted on ateacher's own time, and important works were often published at the end ofa teacher's long career of teaching, reading, and thinking about a subject.

In contrast, teachers today resent students because students take timeaway from research.The publish-or-perish doctrine has resulted in a washof triviality.Information that was once a footnote is now the subject ofan article.What was once an article is now a book.

Barzun alsodisapproves of the politicization of universities.Teachers, he says,should concern themselves with providing the tools needed to get along inthe world:reading, writing, counting, and thinking.The result of thosetools should be of no interest of the teacher - because it isn't any oftheir business.

Primary education is little better than theuniversities.Educators fall under the spell of their own rhetoric.Noone can teach creativity, self-esteem, etc., and teachers should stopclaiming that they do.Instead, teachers should teach those subjects thatare teachable:reading, writing, thinking, and counting. ... Read more

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Help children build reading and writing skills using Noisy Nora, Emily's First 100 Days of School, Bunny Cakes, and other Rosemary Wells favorites. Use the Before-Reading suggestions to tap prior knowledge, introduce new vocabulary, and teach prediction skills. After-Reading suggestions and activities let children practice using text and picture clues, sequencing, retelling, and analyzing story elements. Includes interactive reproducibles, cross-curriculum extensions, graphic organizers, poetry, and more. For use with Grades PreK–1. ... Read more

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Help children build reading and writing skills using Noisy Nora, Emily's First 100 Days of School, Bunny Cakes, and other Rosemary Wells favorites. Use the Before-Reading suggestions to tap prior knowledge, introduce new vocabulary, and teach prediction skills. After-Reading suggestions and activities let children practice using text and picture clues, sequencing, retelling, and analyzing story elements. Includes interactive reproducibles, cross-curriculum extensions, graphic organizers, poetry, and more. For use with Grades PreK–1. ... Read more

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How do you measure greatness in education? Neither the length of a vita nor the number of citations can tell the full story of an important figure like George Hillocks, Jr. The best way to understand his ideas and influence is to go inside classrooms where followers channel his passion for inquiry-based learning into dynamic language-arts lessons that support student success.

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How do you prepare teens for the world filled with jobs, technologies, and challenges that don't even yet exist? Take a pull-no-punches, inspirational trip inside the classroom of Three-Time Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated young adult novelist Alan Lawrence Sitomer. Hear stories, discover teaching tools, and gain insights straight from the private file cabinet of his high school classroom. Yes, there are educators breaking through to today's teens in remarkable, innovative, reproducible ways. Meet one and learn his best strategies. For use with Grades 6Ð12. ... Read more

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Teaching Teens and Reaping Results
Although this book is focused on the author's experience as an inner-city West Coast educator, I found the ideas (and inspiration) just as applicable to my rural Mid-West teaching. The book presents real world ideas on relating to teens, not your typical textbook pedagogy. In my opinion, THIS is the type of book teachers need to read more of.

Must Read for All Teachers Working With Teens
I was so into this book that I was up late reading it on the first night of my spring break.My husband admonished me, "What are you reading that for?It's the first night of your vacation."My reply?"Because this guy is my new teacher hero!"Like the author, I also work in a Title 1 school and face many of the same issues of poverty, apathy, and illiteracy.I am sure that is one reason his reflections and ideas resonated with me, but I do believe any teacher working with today's teens can benefit from reading this book. Mr. Sitomer is a risk-taker who gets results for his students!If you are a teacher who is looking for a way to break out of test prep mania and find the path back to best practices in literacy instruction that will also get you the test results you need, then this is the book for you!

Great book for teachers - new and veteran
This is a great book for all teachers!!It helps keep that personal fire going!!!

If You're In Need of Inspiration...
Three-peat Teacher of the Year and YA author Alan Sitomer is a glass half-full kind of guy, and the proof in the school-cafeteria pudding comes in TEACHING TEENS AND REAPING RESULTS.As advertised on the front cover, it contains "stories, strategies, tools, and tips," though heavier on the "stories and tips" than the "strategies and tools."If you're a teacher, then, seeking a book that's bulging with ready-to-go, practical lesson plans, try another book.While it offers a few lessons you can try, this book is more focused on Alan's personal experience as an inner-city teacher in LA and on how those experiences can help you as a teacher -- whether you're in a city like him or in the middle of a field in Vermont.

While the book addresses student behavior and demands that students become accountable for their own educations, it also provides inspiration for teachers who may be sinking under the weight of cynicism and despair (you know -- the old Scylla and Charybdis of "Kids these days" and "They don't want to learn so why should I knock myself out trying to teach them?").Alan offers plenty of insights into how to wake up the inner student that's there in every teen (you read correctly).Does it mean you'll become 100% successful at reaching every kid?Of course not.But it's a start, and your success rate and happiness level will climb dramatically if you adopt his mindset, values, and strategies.

Appendices in the back include info on how to make your classroom kid-friendly, how to get kids ready to learn, points to address with parents on back-to-school night, what books to buy for reluctant readers, and more.Useful stuff to get yourself ready for next September -- or heck, even next Monday -- this is a good addition to any teacher's professional library. ... Read more

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An introduction to the field of education designed to motivate novice teachers and encourage them to be more reflective, analytical, and self-aware.  The book focuses on the four main aspects of teaching: 

·        General characteristics

·        The varied needs of today’s learners 

·        Approaches to management, teaching, and assessment

·        The influences of technology, philosophy, sociology, and history on today’s teachers

The text shows the present day reality of teaching in this age of economic reform.  It strives to help teachers to record their growth towards becoming a certified teacher through the Initial Development Portfolio feature.  Organized into three parts, The Changing Profession, Working with Students, and Forces Shaping Educational Policies and Practices, this revised edition continues to help both undergraduate and graduate students develop a broad understanding of the complex world of education.

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Typical overpriced scholastic textbook
This is a textbook required for a college course. The type (font) is relatively small and the pictures are in black and white. The text is simply written and touches the surface of most subjects affecting education today. The price I purchased this at was at lot more reasonable than sold at college bookstores and the shipping was fast. I had it within a couple of days. The book includes a DVD which I have used in the course.

It was fantastic!
The book came in the condition as described and so far the ready content is easy to read. Additionally, I like how at the beginning of each chapter there is a flow chart that helps breakdown the different subtopics for each chapter. Very interesting facts to learn about the profession of teaching.

This book was just as described
This text was just as described by the seller it had some wear but worked out perfectly for my class.Great shipping time.

wonderful
on time, speedy delivery and everything as it was said to be in the description. Thanks! ... Read more

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The author distills years of research and experience into six easy, proactive steps to establishing a classroom environment free of disruption and conducive to learning. ... Read more

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This Book is a Gem!
Here's some quick financial advice: Find all the classroom management books you have on your shelf, your books on the "first year teaching experience," your "teaching like the experts" tracks and sell them right away. Then, when you've collected what you can, rush out and buy this wonderful primer. Page makes good on her promise (embedded in her subtitle "6 Simple Steps to Preventing Disorder, Disruption and General Mayhem") and provides for the reader, whether new to the field or an old hand like me, simple, direct, and highly effective strategies for teachers to use in their classrooms.

I can't say enough about how good this book is and how much happier I would have been had I read it before my career began many moons ago. Nevertheless, there is much to recommend here to the journeyman as well. Perhaps most notably, Page never condescends to the reader, eschews gimmicks and the hackneyed exhortations about the importance of rewarding and punishing students, and offers, instead, commonsense, but powerful approaches to helping students act in civil, responsible ways.Her prose is clear and direct and the strategies she presents are wonderfully illustrated by interesting and engaging anecdotes which, unlike most education books, are authentic, often dramatic, and clearly drawn from the author's rich career as a teacher and a teacher educator.

Young or old(er), every teacher really ought to have this book on her shelf.Do yourself a favor and buy it today.

Learning 101
I have been a University professor for more than forty years and when this little book attracted my attention(shear curiosity)I did not expect much. SURPRISE!!! Marilyn Page shows, in a concise and coherent way, how to assure that each and every participant learns.

What is unique and especially noteworthy about this marvelous book - besides its obvious usefulness to K-12 schooling - is its application and adaptability to other fields and other teaching levels. These clear and coherent six steps form the foundation for establishing successful and productive relationships in any group of people, irrespective of age, where the goal is for ALL participants to be involved and learning.

Grab this Book!
If you are strapped for time and want to make some practical and productive changes in your classroom, this book is a must! It's a quick read packed with tons of useful information. The steps make sense, ring true, and have me saying, "Why haven't I thought of that already?"

The teachers' stories make the book very accessible to the educator audience, allowing me to see what has been going on with my own classes. I am ready to make changes in this rapidly approaching school year.

Chapter 6 -Upgrading Interactions: Can you Feel the Heartbeat? - is just plain powerful. You will not only recognize yourself in this book, you will definitely recognize your students as well.

The Bible for the Student Teacher and Mentor


Marilyn Page book really is one of those books they should hand out to every student teacher and every mentor which is guiding them.Marilyn uses her book to tell it as it is, in a nut shell you need to:

Think differently
Consider the needs student and yourself
Look and know your environment

Marilyn uses her vast experience as an educator to show us that we always have had the ability to control our classroom.It is when we start to realize, it is what Stephen Covey calls a "paradigm shift,"to stop cookie cutting your kids, stop using methods you think you know or remember and most of all, care about what you are doing.This book and its six methods follows this theme well.

As I read this I would also urge you to read Markus Buckingham's "Now, Discover Your Strengths" as this book runs in parallel with one of the concepts Marilyn is putting across.You will see the power of strengths and be able to use Marilyn's book to make it happen in the classroom.

I will say that this book is not for the seasoned educator, however, if you are planning on having a student teacher in your classroom anytime soon, it is an excellent reference for this. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Recent debates on the place of the arts in American life has refocused attention on art education in schools. In this book, the author puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice. The book treats the visual arts in relation to developments in general education and particular emphasis is placed on the 19th and 20th centuries and on the social context that has affected our concept of art today. The book is intended as a main text in history of art education courses, as a supplemental text in courses in art education methods and history of education, and as a resource for students, professors and researchers. ... Read more

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Bought it because I checked it out of the library too much!
This is an excellent review of the historical approaches to art in education. My personal interests lie in the pre-1960 eras, especially pre-1930s. This is the best reference I have found on this topic - it thoroughly explains each educational philosophy and tactic, and the historical ramifications of those actions.

Dry reading
This is really the only text book on the subject but it is really dry reading. Another problem is the organization. Generally I prefer my textbooks to be fairly linear, this is not. It bounces back and forth in time. If you were fairly familiar with art ed. history and using this as reference for a paper. not really a problem but if you are trying to grasp event A followed by event B, you will need some other supplementary material. good luck.

History of Art Ed
I know that I ordered this book knowing that it would be "dry" reading but then found while looking through it that I wasn't even interested in the history of Art Ed, I'm only interested in what's happening now! So, I really can't review a book that I haven't even read!

Brilliant
I have not yet finished this book, which is why I can't give it 5 stars.But it is brilliantly written with a strong thesis which is supported throughout.The way it ties the history of the arts and societal differences into the educating of artists and arts education is incredibly clever.I'm currently going to school for art, history and education and this book ties them altogether in a way that makes learning the information incredibly interesting and useful.Arthur Efland is my new hero.

Provides a solid understanding of social forces
Do the arts deserve a higher place in our children's education? Yes... and no... It depends on your outlook in relation to history.This text places art education within the social context of general education in the West (most specifically America for a majority of the book). Doing so allows for an examination of why one generation may learn about art and its process, while the next generation will remain almost entirely ignorant of traditions and methods of artistic creation. Art lovers (and haters) as well as history enthusiasts (education, art, social currents, etc...) will certainly enjoy. ... Read more

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Revised to incorporate important new information about No Child Left Behind and the 2004 re-authorization of IDEA, this classic work in the field of teaching methodology for students with special needs continues to be the most comprehensive textbook available for students with mild/high incidence disabilities (i.e., learning disabilities, mild retardation/intellectual disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, and students experiencing learning problems in the general education classroom). The focus of the book is on effective instructional strategies for students being served in diverse educational settings, with a primary emphasis on those being taught in inclusive educational environments.  In Part I, the text provides basic information on curriculum development and instruction while in Part II, an in-depth discussion of key curricular areas is provided. For educators teaching learning disabled students. ... Read more

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excellent
This book was high quality and speedy delivery! Excellent service, I would order from this seller again.

Could use older edition
This 8th edition could easily be replaced with the 7th edition for a lot less money.The chapters contain basically the same information AND the 7th edition comes with a cd with strategies and the 8th edition does not have any extras.This is a paperback book and for the money, you would be better off saving it and getting the 7th edition. ... Read more

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Teaching Online is a practical, concise guide for instructors teaching distance learning courses or instructors supplementing a traditional classroom with online elements. This pocket-sized, portable book can be used as either a course text or a professional resource.

Written by authors who have both taught online courses and trained hundreds of faculty to teach online, the text serves as a pedagogical "how-to," addressing instructors' most commonly asked questions and concerns. Its informal style reassures readers that they do not have to be technology professionals to make the transition to the world of online teaching.

• New! The new edition features increased information on how to incorporate online resources into a traditional classroom setting.
• New! Updates on key technology issues keep the text current. Coverage of new and emerging technologies includes new hardware, new software, new operating systems, new statistical findings on the prevalence of online courses, and updates on course management systems.
• New! New and updated case studies provide more concrete examples of the various means of online instruction.
• New! Coverage of small group activities includes rubrics for grading and new examples of online simulations.
• New! Major revisions to Chapter 14—"Where Do We Go From Here?"—explore the general trends for the future of teaching online.
• New! End-of-chapter resources and web links have been updated.
• New! The text's companion web site now contains an interactive glossary, more cases and examples, and web links.

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Teaching Online review
This is a fascinating and extremely informative book.This book has helped me in looking at a students perspective when being an instructor; given me new web-sites to visit and helped me gain a greater knowledge of technology in general.I'd highly recomend this book for anybody interested in teaching an online or hybrid class!It was 'more' than worth the money spent for it!

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide (College Teaching Series)

Great book, excellent service, perfect description!
I was kind of nervous about ordering a book from amazon, I went back and forth trying to decide. So I ordered and when I got the book it was better than I could have imagined. The condition was excellent, I will definitely use amazon again!

Interesting but way outdated!
I reviewed practically every book in amazon regarding this theme, I chose this one because it had the best reviews in its kind.But when I actually got it I felt dissapointed because of a couple of things:

1. This is not a book, Its barely a manual!, It has the size of a printer manual, both in height, width and number of pages. When I pay more than 40 bucks plus shipping the least I expect is a serious book.
2. This book was written when Netscape was still alive!, I mean at least the author could have updated it to talk about Firefox and Opera, but the examples remained.
3. It's oriented for people who don't know much about computers, if you're computer savvy, it's probably best that you skip this book.

Good companion reading for an instructor certification course
Our instructor certification course is heavy on skill building. We've used both the first and second edition of the Ko and Rossen in our course in order to build in more discussion of pedagogical issues, to provide additional depth on core topics and provide more tips on course management.

Of interest to instructors of online classes
This book is very readable.The book begins by addressing issues in preparation of an online class, including a discussion of instructor and institution resources.Also included are chapters on student preparation, student assessment and copyright.
The strength of the book, however, is in the chapters that discuss the workings of the online classroom itself.What areas should my online classroom contain?How do I go from lectures to online activities? How do I encourage participation, yet manage my workload? How do I manage the behavior of disruptive students?I would definitely recommend the book for new teachers of online classes.The book has enough depth that even experienced teachers can use it to review their current practices. ... Read more

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Rankin provides learning activities to help middle and junior high students develop the skills necessary to carry out the steps of the research process. She also explores the roles of time management and the visual display of information, and she outlines techniques that can help practitioners reach their own insights and conclusions about teaching the research process. ... Read more

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Good Tool for Educators
The Thoughtful Researcher is a great tool for any educator.It gives strategies that are easy to use.The format is setup so that information can be found quickly.Some of the information was common sense, however,it could be used as a review for both new and veteran educators. ... Read more