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"Relationships have always been integral to teaching and learning. In today's diverse school settings, this means building healthy connections with students, parents, co-workers, and community members. Improving Teaching and Learning provides educators with the necessary tools to develop a better "relationship quotient"--Allowing them to serve as positive role models for the next generation of culturally competent citizens."--Jacket.

"In Teachers as Learners, a collection of landmark essays, noted teacher educator and scholar Sharon Feiman-Nemser shines a light on teacher learning. More Arguing that serious and sustained teacher learning is a necessary condition for ambitious student learning, she examines closely how teachers acquire, generate, and use knowledge about teaching over the trajectory of their careers. Together, these essays bear witness to the evolution and development...

Sixteen contemporary writers reminisce about the teachers who had the most significant effect on their own minds and work, yielding insight into the thought and personality of such incisive thinkers as Yvor Winters, Hannah Arendt, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

From self-esteem to school uniforms, from grade inflation to character education, Kohn raises a series of provocative questions about the status quo in this collection of essays. He challenges us to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about children and education. Whether he is explaining why cooperative learning can be so threatening or why detracking is so fiercely opposed, Kohn offers a fresh, informed, and frequently disconcerting perspective...

Studying Teacher Education examines research about the current pool of prospective and entering teachers and about local, institutional, state, and federal preservice teacher education policies and practices. The book includes three general chapters and nine research syntheses.

Today's new teachers are responsible for ensuring diverse students-including students with disabilities and ELLs- meet higher educational standards, pass high-stakes testing, and are equipped to succeed in a technology-driven workplace. How well prepared are these new teachers? This video explores Stanford University's Teacher Preparation Strategies, which include redesigned schedules, team teaching, mentoring, and teacher portfolios. Strategies stress...

"Award-winning writer and teacher Bachus begins the fall 2011 semester knowing that before the year's end, he must decide if he will take early retirement or remain indefinitely in his dream job at Community College of Philadelphia-where he began his own college studies as a bad student from a working-class single-parent family. Open Admissions interweaves the story of this decision-making semester with the month-long sabbatical residency the following...