Teaching in the secondary school (7th ed ) (7^th Ed.)

Teaching in the Secondary School, Seventh Edition, utilizes using a reflective approach to learning and prepares secondary school teachers, in an era of change, for the realities of teaching in today's classrooms. Highlighting critical issues such as diversity, differentiated instruction, cooperative learning, direct instruction, higher-level thinking, assessment, planning, classroom management, legal issues that teachers may confront, and career-long professional development, this thoroughly updated and revised text equips teachers with the tools they need to successfully face the day-to-day classroom environment, and the real challenges facing today's secondary school students and educators.

This edition features all new information on: education reform proposals, such as:

• Race To The Top and Breaking Ranks, and how the role of secondary teachers is changing
• diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments, and a new emphasis on planning assessment prior to planning instruction, outlined in the 'Backward Design' model
• writing across the curriculum and the increase in integrating literacy across the curriculum in all secondary classes
• bullying, cyber-bullying, school violence, and drug abuse, including legal issues and school responsibility alerts teachers to the serious misbehaviors that exist in today's schools and one of the most common and pressing concerns of new teachers
• and the tremendous opportunities the internet provides for professional development purposes, such as using webinars, podcasts, and e-workshops.

Part I: Teaching in an Age of Change

Chapter 1: The Changing World of Teaching

Chapter 2: Students and Schools

Chapter 3: Understanding Diversity

Part II: Preparing for Teaching

Chapter 4: Reflective Teaching

Chapter 5: What Should Students Learn? Defining the Curriculum

Chapter 6: Learning Assessment: Making Data Driven Decisions

Chapter 7: Planning Units and Lessons

Chapter 8: One Size Does Not Fit All: Differentiated Instructions

Part III: The Instructional Act

Chapter 9: Models of Direct Instruction

Chapter 10: Teaching for Higher Level Outcomes

Chapter 11: Small Group and Cooperative Learning

Chapter 12: Reading across the Curriculum

Chapter 13: Successful Management and Discipline

Part IV: The Professional Context

Chapter 14: Legal Issues

Chapter 15: Career Long Professional Growth

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• Helpful pedagogy is featured at the beginning and end of each chapter.Graphic Organizers at the chapter starts present readers with advanced organizer of the content to follow. The Chapter Summaries conclude each chapter providing readers with review of key ideas to help them review what they’ve just read. 

• Realistic scenarios, dispersed throughout the text, arebased on authentic events encountered by actual teachers to challenge students to apply the material and to think critically about how they would respond to a similar situation.