Myra Pollack Sadker,
Late of The American University David Miller Sadker,
The American University
ISBN: 0072877723 Copyright year: 2005
Proven Features
A DIVERSITY-FOCUSED APPROACH: The text includes an integrated, multicultural/diversity-oriented approach in all chapters, including the most comprehensive coverage of the roles and experiences of girls and women.
AN INTERACTIVE TEXT: Pedagogical features are designed to be interactive. Interactive Activities and the chapter-opening What Do You Think? opinion poll link students to the Online Learning Center. Each chapter ends with a link to the Online Learning Center that lists the resources available. Additionally, resources designed to support students – such as Forms for their RAP portfolio activities – are available on the Online Learning Center. Reflection Questions follow figures and tables and many of the features. Proven features include Class Acts (part-opening vignettes), In the News (briefs on current issues in education), You Be the Judge (pro/con feature), Profiles in Education, Frame of Reference (special interest boxes), Photo-synthesis (photo comparisons) and RAPs (part-ending portfolio activities keyed to INTASC standards). Chapter pedagogy includes Focus Questions, Chapter Preview, Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions and Activities, Web-tivities (online activities), Reel to Real Teaching (focus on education-related movies) and For Further Reading.
COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE: Teachers, Schools, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to education and teaching. Part I: Teachers and Students discusses what teaching is like today – opportunities, students and teachers; Part II: Schools and Curriculum looks at schools and curriculum; Part III: Foundations presents the foundations of education; and Part IV: Tomorrow discusses equal opportunity, technology, and what the student can expect in her first classroom.
ANNOTATED INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION: The AIE provides instructional ideas and links key supplements to the content through approximately 40 annotations per chapter. Features include Teaching Tips, Critical Thinking Questions, Class Activities and Grabbers, Global Views, and Multiple Intelligences Connections in addition to traditional features and referencing of supplemental material.
READABILITY: The text’s readability makes it accessible and engaging for the student. The authors use different approaches throughout to convey information to make the text as interesting as possible. They use humor and an accessible writing style to involve and challenge the student in active reading.
TECHNOLOGY COVERAGE: Technology in Education (Ch. 13) provides the most current coverage of technology in education – the latest computer technologies and how they are being used in schools, and how technology is affecting education.
SUPPLEMENTS: The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources developed by the author. For the instructor, supplements include an Annotated Instructor’s Edition; an Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank (with extensive, creative activities, test questions, and alternative assessment activities); an Instructor’s Resource CD-Rom (with the Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank and PowerPoints); Full-Color text-specific Overhead Transparencies; the Video Program; the Online Learning Center; the new Student Interactive Site; and the new student CD-ROM with Case Studies, Articles and Video Clips.
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