Teachers College Press: 606 books
Listening
A Framework for Teaching Across Differences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can new and experienced teachers rethink their teaching and learn to embrace and grow from the diversity they encounter among their students? Rather than preparing teachers to follow prescriptions or blueprints, Katherine Schultz suggests that they be given the tools and the opportunity to attend...
Good Questions
Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction in the Standards-Based Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now in its Third Edition—expanded with over 100 new tasks and questions—this bestselling resource helps experienced and novice teachers to effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K–8. Math education expert Marian Small shows teachers how to get...
Teaching for Equity in Complex Times
Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments to equity-minded instruction while meeting the demands of new educational policies, including national standards. This book details how one school integrated equity pedagogy...
Improving Teacher Quality
The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities, using data from 15 countries. The authors compare and contrast the United States with two high-achieving countries—Japan and Australia—that have implemented very different approaches...
Teachers as Allies
Transformative Practices for Teaching DREAMers and Undocumented Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teachers as Allies provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The authors offer teaching strategies that address the needs of DREAMers and undocumented youth...
SAT Wars
The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“This book is an important contribution to the reassessment of the use of standardized tests in college admissions. . . . Colleges that are well-prepared for a discussion about standardized admission tests will understand how their research aligns with the information provided in this publication”...
Mentors in the Making
Developing New Leaders for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In response to a growing interest in mentoring and new teacher induction, the authors offer a unique view of developing quality mentors. Drawing on empirical research, practitioner action inquiry, and field-tested practices from induction programs, they explore effective mentoring in diverse educational...
Among School Teachers
Community, Autonomy and Ideology in Teachers' Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A compelling and thoroughly readable account of two middle schools—one urban and one suburban—that attempt to build communities which will foster student growth and learning. This book shatters prevailing beliefs and furthers our understanding of the ways in which teachers’ relationships impact...
Mathematics for Equity
A Framework for Successful Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, nationally renowned scholars join classroom teachers to share equity-oriented approaches that have been successful with urban high school mathematics students. Compiling for the first time major research findings and practitioner experiences from Railside High School, the volume describes...
Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools
10 Keys to Successful Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools will help literacy leaders improve teachers’ professional development in grades K–6. The authors use literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically...
by Amy Noelle Parks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical book provides pre- and inservice teachers with an understanding of how math can be learned through play. The author helps teachers to recognize the mathematical learning that occurs during play, to develop strategies for mathematizing that play, and to design formal lessons that make...
Reading Time
The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school...
The Power of Projects
Meeting Contemporary Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms—Strategies and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely volume will help teachers on the front line to tackle the challenges they face in today’s classrooms with children ages 38. The authors show how good project work can provide solutions to problems that seem overwhelming to many teachers of young children. They offer practical strategies...
Expanding College Access for Urban Youth
What Schools and Colleges Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book demonstrates why there needs to be a more thoughtful and collaborative effort on the part of K–12 schools, as well as institutions of higher education, to provide better college access to students from low-income communities. Building on a 10-year case study of a successful...