Janice Koch 
Teach [EPUB ebook] 
Introduction to Education

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.

Cuprins

Part I • Thinking About Teaching: Making The Decision

Chapter 1 • Becoming a Teacher: Looking Forward and Backward at the Same Time

Chapter 2 • Teaching Stories

Part II • Educational Foundations: History And Instructional Practices

Chapter 3 • A History of Schooling in America

Chapter 4 • What Does It Mean to Teach and to Learn?

Part III • Looking At Today’s Schools

Chapter 5 • Who Are Today’s Students?

Chapter 6 • Contemporary Trends in Education

Chapter 7 • Classroom Teaching and Technology

Chapter 8 • The Global Classroom

Part IV • Classrooms, Communities, And You

Chapter 9 • The Classroom as Community

Chapter 10 • Making the Decision to Become a Teacher

Appendix 1 • Building Your Teaching Portfolio

Appendix 2 • How to Contact Your State’s Teacher Licensure Offices

Glossary

References

Index

Despre autor

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).