Teaching Today:An Introduction to Education - Softcover

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Teaching Today, Seventh Edition, connects well-grounded research with decision making and practical classroom application, making it an invaluable resource for beginning teachers. Readers are introduced to current issues in education and the realities of teaching in today's classrooms. They learn how to analyze, reflect, and decide how to respond and what roles they will be required to play as teachers. Unique to Teaching Today, Part III, Teaching and Assessing, gives readers four chapters filled with vivid, detailed pictures of effective instruction, classroom management and discipline, and assessment, deepening readers' understanding of the realities of teaching today.

• Chapter 13, Influences of Technology. This chapter illustrates the impact of technology on teaching today, how teachers can incorporate technology into their classroom practice, and how to make informed decisions about the use of technology in the classroom.
• Text organization including:
• Profiles of Today's Learners (Chapter 4)
• Responding to Diversity (Chapter 5)
• Social and Philosophical Perspectives (Chapter 11)
• Legal Issues Affecting Learners and Teachers (Chapter 14)
• Extended coverage throughout the book of curriculum standards, standardized testing, accountability, and the No Child Left Behind Act.