The fifth edition of the best-selling Teach by Janice Koch aims to help students answer the question, ‘Is teaching the right career for me?’ Via a concise but wide-ranging exploration of the American public education system, Teach asks readers to imagine themselves in the classroom and develop their own ideas of what it means to be a teacher. Real-life classroom stories from teachers themselves help readers see themselves as teachers. Chapters feature the latest ed TPA and In Tasc Standards to structure learning, as well as learning outcomes and journal prompts to give readers clear goals and ways to build their teaching skills.
This new edition features major emerging issues in education, including developments in technology in the classroom, with both positive and negative implications; more on the STEM, STEAM, and maker movements; school choice and homeschooling; sexual orientation and gender identity; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the importance of personal wellness in teacher success. Throughout the text, the author references and contextualizes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, where appropriate, to reflect the ways students, teachers, and classrooms have been altered by this historic event.
Combining historical and contemporary perspectives, this text helps future teachers examine the ways in which society and culture shape schools and the ways in which schools shape society and culture.
Table of Content
Part I • Thinking About Teaching: Making The Decision
Chapter 1 • Becoming a Teacher: Looking Forward and Backward at the Same Time
Looking Backward: Talking About Teaching
Looking Forward: The Profession
The Workplace: School Climate and School Culture
An Era of Testing and Standardization
Chapter 2 • Teaching Stories
Taking the Roll Call for Students and Teachers
Excitement and Challenges in Teaching
Teaching and Vision
Support for Teachers
Teachers as Lifelong Learners
Part II • Educational Foundations: History And Instructional Practices
Chapter 3 • A History of Schooling in America
An Introduction to the History of U.S. Public Education
The Swinging Pendulum: Dominant Philosophies Influencing Education
Educational Reform: Funding, Priorities, and Standards, Standards, Standards
NCLB and ESSA
Reopening and Recovering: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chapter 4 • What Does It Mean to Teach and to Learn?
Can Anyone Teach?
Pedagogy and Instruction
How People Learn
What Is a Curriculum?
Antiracist Teaching
Assessment: How Do We Know What They Know?
Part III • Looking At Today’s Schools
Chapter 5 • Who Are Today’s Students?
The Students: A Changing Landscape
Students Who Are at Risk
Student Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities
Multiple Intelligences
Teaching the Broad Range of Diverse Students
Chapter 6 • Contemporary Trends in Education
The Inclusion Classroom
The Education of Gifted and Talented Students
Differentiated Instruction
Social and Emotional Learning
The Power of Projects and Problems for Student Learning
The Achievement Gap
Creating a Safe School Climate: The Concern About Violence in Schools
Students’ Rights and Teachers’ Rights and Responsibilities
Chapter 7 • Classroom Teaching and Technology
Students and Social Media
Classrooms and Smartphones
The Problem of Information Overload
The Internet, Teaching, and Learning
Internet Safety
The Digital Divide
Technology for Students With Special Needs
Chapter 8 • The Global Classroom
Online Education in the Knowledge Economy
Globalization and Learning
Teaching in the Global Classroom
Part IV • Classrooms, Communities, And You
Chapter 9 • The Classroom as Community
Building Community in the Classroom
Preventing Harassment and Bullying
School Safety and Gun Violence Prevention
Classroom Community and Goodness of Fit
Chapter 10 • Making the Decision to Become a Teacher
Teaching in the 21st Century During and Emerging From Covid-19
Goodness of Fit
Getting Started in the Teaching Profession
Build Your Teaching Portfolio
Appendix 1 • Building Your Teaching Portfolio
Appendix 2 • How to Contact Your State’s Teacher Licensure Offices
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
Janice Koch is Professor Emerita of Science Education at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. She developed and taught science education courses to elementary, middle, and secondary preservice and in-service teachers. Additionally, she taught courses addressing introduction to education, action research, qualitative research, and gender issues in the classroom. Dr. Koch shares her passion for teaching and learning through presentations as well as through her introduction to education text Teach, Fourth Edition (SAGE, 2020). Her acclaimed textbook Science Stories, Sixth Edition (Cengage, 2018), has been used by thousands of preservice and in- service educators interested in creating meaningful science experiences for their students. Dr. Koch was named one of the Top Fifty Women on Long Island by Long Island Business News in 2004 and 2005. She and her husband currently reside in central Maryland, where she consults on education projects across the country and internationally and evaluates grant-funded science education initiatives. She recently served on the Committee for Precollege Engineering Education for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016–2018).
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