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Preliminary Contents | |
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Note: Each chapter concludes with A Final Word | |
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Schools and Students | |
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Why Teach? Examining | |
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Your Motives for Teaching | |
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The Rewards of Teaching Sources of Useful Experience | |
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Case Studies in the Motivation to Teach | |
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What Is a School and What Is It For? | |
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Education and Schooling | |
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Schools as Cultures | |
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Schools as Transmitters or Re-Creators of Culture | |
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Four Basic Purposes of School | |
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What Do Studies Reveal About the Nature of Schools | |
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What Is a Good School? | |
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The Unfinished Work of the Schools | |
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Who Are Today's Students in a Diverse Society? | |
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Sources of Student Diversity English Language Learners Diverse | |
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Abilities Diverse Needs Gender Sexual Orientation | |
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The Teacher's Response to Diversity | |
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What Social Problems Affect Today's Students? | |
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Recognizing Risk Factors New American | |
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Family Patterns Poverty Teenage Parenting | |
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Abused and Neglected Children | |
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Alcohol and Drug Abuse | |
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Adolescent Suicide | |
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School Violence and Vandalism | |
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School Dropout Rates | |
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What Is Taught? | |
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What Is the Curriculum? | |
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What Is the Present Curriculum? | |
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Assessing Student Academic Performance | |
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Additional Influences on Curriculum | |
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Is the Existing Curriculum Relevant to Today's Society? | |
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Teachers | |
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What Makes a Teacher Effective? | |
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Framework for Professional Practice | |
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The Teacher as a Reflective Decision Maker | |
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Aspects of Reflective Decision Making | |
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What Attitudes Does the Effective Teacher Posses? | |
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What Subject-Matter Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
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What Theoretical Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
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Personal Practical Knowledge | |
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What Teaching Skills are Required of an Effective Teacher? | |
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What Should Teachers Know About Technology and Its Impact on Schools? | |
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A Brief Look at Education's Technological Past | |
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How Are Schools Being Pressured to Change? | |
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How Are Technologies Affecting Student Learning | |
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How Are Technologies Affecting Teaching? | |
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How Are Computer Technologies Organized for Student Use? | |
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What Are the Key Issues in Educational Technology? | |
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What Are the Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Teachers? | |
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The Ethics of Teaching | |
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The Teacher and the Law | |
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Lifestyle and the Teacher Law, Religion, and the School | |
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Students and the Law | |
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Foundations and the Future | |
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What Are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education? | |
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What Is Philosophy? | |
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The Terrain of Philosophy | |
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Schools of Educational Philosophy | |
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The Influence of Psychological Theories | |
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Your Philosophy of Education | |
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What Is the History of American Education? | |
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Themes in American Education | |
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Elementary Education | |
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Secondary Education | |
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Private Education | |
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Education of Minorities | |
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How Are Schools Governed, Influenced, and Financed? | |
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Who Legally Governs Public Education? | |
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Who Influences American Public Education? | |
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How Are Schools Financed? | |
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How Should Education Be Reformed? | |
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What Ought to Be the Elements of Educational Reform? | |
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Current Reform Initiatives | |
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The Current State of School Reform | |
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The Teaching Profession | |
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What Are Your Job Options in Education? | |
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Will There Be Job Openings in Education? | |
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How Do You Obtain a Teaching Position? | |
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How Do You Become Licensed? | |
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If You Don't Teach, What Then? | |
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What Can the New Teacher Expect? | |
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The School Milieu: The Shock of the Familiar Administrators: Mixed Bag and Many Hats Peers: A Mixed Blessing Instruction: So Much to Learn Students: Friends or Fiends? | |
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Parents: Natural Allies with Different Agendas Surviving the First Year of Teaching | |
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What Does It Mean to Be a Professional? | |
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The Status of Teaching: A Profession or Not? | |
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Professional Associations | |
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Your Own Professional Development | |
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Why Teach? | |
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A Final Word Opinions About Teaching | |
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Why Teachers Teach | |
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Endnotes | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |