Because Teaching Matters: An Introduction to the Profession
An Introduction to the Profession
2nd Edition
Published on 11. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
495 pages
978-0-470-40820-9 (ISBN)
Description
Because Teaching Matters provides teachers with a realistic depiction of today?s classrooms while highlighting the enormous impact they have on everyday lives. The second edition presents material around a framework of five professional commitments that allows them to make sense of what it means to be a teacher.
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Marleen C. Pugach is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Director of the Collaborative Teacher Education Program for Urban Communities.She received her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a joint specialization in special education and teacher education. In February 1998 she received the Margaret Lindsey Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education for her contributions to research in teacher education. Dr. Pugach teaches advanced courses in qualitative methodology in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at UWM.
Content
1. Teaching: A Career That Makes a Difference. Commitment #1: Learning from Multiple Sources of Knowledge throughout Your Career. 2. Putting What You Already Know About Teaching into Perspective. 3. Learning to Teach: What Does it Mean? 4. Learning from the History and Philosophy of Education. Commitment #2: Using the Curriculum Responsibly. 5. Deciding What to Teach. 6. More Than What is Taught: School as a Social Institution. Commitment #3: Crossing Your Own Familiar Borders to Embrace Diversity. 7. Teaching Students Whose Race, Class Culture or Language Differs From your Own. 8. Teaching Students with Disabilities. Commitment #4: Meeting the Needs of Individual Students in the Context of the Classroom and the School. 9. Organizing Good Classrooms and Good Schools. 10. How Governing and Financing Schools Influence Teachers' Work. Commitment #5: Contributing Actively to The Profession. 11. Ethical and Legal Issues in the Work of Teaching. 12. Becoming a Teacher: New Visions and Next Steps.