Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
When kids can't read, what teachers can do	G. Kylene Beers	For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced in 1979 when she met and began teaching a boy named George. When George's parents asked her to explain why he couldn't read …	OL12228337W
Teaching to transgress	Bell Hooks,Marta Malo	In Teaching to Transgress bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" …	OL15053159W
Teaching for critical thinking	Stephen Brookfield	"In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think…	OL16652480W
The creation/evolution controversy	Kary D. Smout	xii, 209 pages ; 25 cm	OL1861428W
Educating immigrant children	Charles Leslie Glenn	Surveys educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in twelve countries, and draws from them lessons for a more effective whole-school approach. Policies and practices are di…	OL20140702W
Temperament in the classroom	Barbara K. Keogh	Keogh explores the effects of individual temperament on children's learning and achievement from preschool through middle school. Based on recent research and filled with classroom examples, the book…	OL20545413W
Spirituality, action, & pedagogy	Diana Denton	"Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart invites the reader to participate in a personal exploration of what it means to consciously seek the heart of education. The authors in this…	OL20545770W
Essential elements	Bonnie Elbaum,Cynthia McIntyre,Alese Smith	See:	OL20633338W
Fostering creativity in children K-8	Mervin D. Lynch,Carole Ruth Harris	Methods to motivate and teach the creative child in the areas of the arts, math, science and reading.	OL20880118W
Talking shop	Christopher M. Clark	This is a set of stories about how something as simple-sounding as ordinary talk among teachers can become a powerful medium for teacher learning and professional development. The chapters of the boo…	OL20897759W
Critical thinking	Richard L. Epstein	Critical thinking isn't as easy as it sounds. CRITICAL THINKING shows you how decision-making errors are made, and how to avoid them. By combining simple explanations with time-tested theories, CRITI…	OL24048710W
Just Another Kid	Torey Hayden	From the Official Torey Hayden Website: "Torey Hayden's book "Just Another Kid" is not just another book. Though each page turns on the mysteries of emotional disturbance, sex, alcoholism, violence a…	OL265504W
Reel conversations	Ann Wilder,Alan B. Teasley	From its beginnings, cinema has forged a distinct medium, a literature in its own right, as worthy of study as print literature. A good film, like a good book or poem, can delight, provoke the imagin…	OL3288291W
The dreamkeepers	Gloria Ladson-Billings	Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relev…	OL3469483W
Educating oppositional and defiant children	Philip S. Hall	Strategies for handling students who do not listen and are openly defiant and aggressive when people try to make them behave.	OL3914108W
The peaceful classroom	Charles A. Smith	Combines useful life skills with easy, enjoyable activities. It introduces over 160 activities for three to five-year-old children which promote skills such as friendship, compassion, cooperation and…	OL3928501W
Essential Teaching Skills	Chris Kyriacou	Provides information on the development of teaching skills, lesson planning, classroom management, pupil evaluation, personalized learning, whole-class interactive teaching, and assessment for learni…	OL4213963W
Teachers, schools, and society	Myra Sadker,David Miller Sadker	"Combining the brevity of a streamlined Introduction to Education text with the support package of a much more expensive book, the brief edition of Teachers, Schools, and Society encourages experienc…	OL49718W
Teaching gifted children	Aimee Howley	Preparations - Evaluation - Instruction - Individuals and systems - Pace and content - Enrichment - Instructional format - Social implications___	OL5103451W
Teaching for Intelligence	Barbara Z. Presseisen	The collected articles encourage educators to examine their perspectives about the nature of intelligence, standardized testing, and curriculum requirements. Guided by current research, the articles…	OL5104145W