Part I Teachers and Students
Chapter 1 Becoming a Teacher What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?
Do Teachers Like Teaching?
Professionalism at the Crossroads From Normal Schools to Board-Certified Teachers
Teacher Education Today On Discipline On Competition On Honesty and Dependability On Urban
Legends about Teaching Southwest Airlines and Teaching
We Like Questions Summary Key Terms and People Discussion Questions and Activities
Reel to Real Teaching For Further Reading
Chapter 2 Student Diversity Different Ways of Learning Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence
Cultural Diversity Teaching Them All Culture and Education Multicultural Education Bilingual Education
Exceptional Learners Exceptional Learners: An Exceptional Struggle for Educational Rights
The Gifted and Talented Summary Key Terms and People Discussion
Questions and Activities Reel to Real Teaching For Further Reading
Chapter 3 Teacher Effectiveness Are Teachers Born, or Made?
The Mysterious Case of Teacher Effectiveness Academic
Learning Time Classroom Management
The Pedagogical Cycle Clarity and Academic Structure Questioning
Student Response Reaction or Productive Feedback Variety in Process and Content Models for Effective
Instruction Direct Teaching Cooperative Learning Mastery
Learning Problem-Based Learning Effective and Reflective Teaching
Summary
Key Terms and People Discussion
Questions and Activities Reel to Real Teaching
For Further Reading Inter-mission
Introduction
Inter-mission
Part 1 Teachers and Students
Part II Schools and Curriculum
Chapter 4 Schools: Choices and Challenges A Meeting Here Tonight
The Purposes of School
Purpose 1 To Transmit Society's Knowledge and Values (Passing the Cultural Baton)
Purpose 2 Reconstructing Society (Schools as Tools for Change)
Public Demands for Schools Where Do You Stand?
Education Reform Beyond the Neighborhood Public School
The Choice Concept Magnet Schools Open Enrollment Vouchers Charter Schools EMOs (Educational Maintenance Organizations)
Schools for Profit Is Choice a Good Idea?
Home Schools, Home Teachers
Summary
Key Terms and People Discussion
Questions and Activities
Reel to Real Teaching
For Further Reading
Chapter 5 Life in Schools Rules, Rituals, and Routines
"Come Right Up and Get Your New Books": A Teacher's Perspective
"Come Right Up and Get Your New Books": A Student's Perspective Delay and Social Distraction Watching the Clock
The Teacher as Gatekeeper
The Other Side of the Tracks
The Power of Elementary Peer Groups
Guest Column: Haunted by Racist Attitudes High School's Adolescent Society
The Affective Side of School Reform What Makes a School Effective?
Factor 1 Strong Leadership
Factor 2 A Clear School Mission
Factor 3 A Safe and Orderly Climate
Factor 4 Monitoring Student Progress
Factor 5 High Expectations
A Note of Caution on Effective Schools Research Beyond Five Factors
Summary
Key Terms and People Discussion
Questions and Activities
Reel to Real Teaching
For Further Reading
Chapter 6 What Students are Taught in Schools
What Is a Curriculum?
The Extracurriculum
The Hidden or Implicit Curriculum
The Formal or Explicit Curriculum
The Curriculum Time Machine: A Historical Perspective Time
Capsule 1 The Two Rs in the Seventeenth Century Time
Capsule 2 Curricula in the Eighteenth Century Time
Capsule 3 A Secularized Curriculum for Students in the Nineteenth Century Time
Capsule 4 Progressive Education in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Time
Capsule 5 Sputnik in Space and Structure in Know