Overview

The fifth edition of the introduction to education text Teach, by Janice Koch, helps students answer the question, ""Is teaching the right career for me?"" This brief book features real-life classroom stories from teachers, the latest edTPA and InTasc Standards, learning outcomes, and journal prompts.

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Author:   Janice Koch
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   5th Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781071825808

ISBN 10:   1071825801
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   14 April 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Part I • Thinking About Teaching: Making The Decision Chapter 1 • Becoming a Teacher: Looking Forward and Backward at the Same Time Chapter 2 • Teaching Stories Part II • Educational Foundations: History And Instructional Practices Chapter 3 • A History of Schooling in America Chapter 4 • What Does It Mean to Teach and to Learn? Part III • Looking At Today’s Schools Chapter 5 • Who Are Today’s Students? Chapter 6 • Contemporary Trends in Education Chapter 7 • Classroom Teaching and Technology Chapter 8 • The Global Classroom Part IV • Classrooms, Communities, And You Chapter 9 • The Classroom as Community Chapter 10 • Making the Decision to Become a Teacher Appendix 1 • Building Your Teaching Portfolio Appendix 2 • How to Contact Your State’s Teacher Licensure Offices Glossary References Index

Reviews

Attractive, non-threatening, easy-to-read design for beginning education students. --Dr. Shirley Bleidt Brings the idea of being a teacher full circle by beginning and ending with the candidate. --Allison Turner Gunter, EdD Extensive coverage of academic vocabulary of education --Dr. Shirley Bleidt I especially appreciate the thorough coverage of community and student diversity. --Dr. Vicky Eiben I love the idea of focusing the book on the reflective practitioner since it is important for future teachers to recognize they must be lifelong, reflective learners in order to become effective teachers. --Madeline Craig I love the technology and globalization pieces [of this text]. Our world is shrinking quickly due to our abilities to connect instantly with pretty much anyone in the world at any moment. --Dr. Spencer Vogt Reflection. Teaching is all about reflective practice--I try to relate the book's materials with what the students are experiencing as learners as well. --Karen Schreder

""Attractive, non-threatening, easy-to-read design for beginning education students.""--Dr. Shirley Bleidt ""Brings the idea of being a teacher full circle by beginning and ending with the candidate.""--Allison Turner Gunter, EdD ""Extensive coverage of academic vocabulary of education""--Dr. Shirley Bleidt ""I especially appreciate the thorough coverage of community and student diversity.""--Dr. Vicky Eiben ""I love the idea of focusing the book on the reflective practitioner since it is important for future teachers to recognize they must be lifelong, reflective learners in order to become effective teachers.""--Madeline Craig ""I love the technology and globalization pieces [of this text]. Our world is shrinking quickly due to our abilities to connect instantly with pretty much anyone in the world at any moment.""--Dr. Spencer Vogt ""Reflection. Teaching is all about reflective practice--I try to relate the book′s materials with what the students are experiencing as learners as well.""--Karen Schreder

Author Information

Janice Koch is Professor Emerita of Science Education at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. She developed and taught science education courses to elementary, middle, and secondary preservice and in-service teachers. Additionally, she taught courses addressing introduction to education, action research, qualitative research, and gender issues in the classroom. Dr. Koch shares her passion for teaching and learning through presentations as well as through her introduction to education text Teach, Fourth Edition (SAGE, 2020). Her acclaimed textbook Science Stories, Sixth Edition (Cengage, 2018), has been used by thousands of preservice and in- service educators interested in creating meaningful science experiences for their students. Dr. Koch was named one of the Top Fifty Women on Long Island by Long Island Business News in 2004 and 2005. She and her husband currently reside in central Maryland, where she consults on education projects across the country and internationally and evaluates grant-funded science education initiatives. She recently served on the Committee for Precollege Engineering Education for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016–2018).

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