Because Teaching Matters, 2nd Edition

by Pugach, Marleen C.

• ISBN13: 9780470408209
• ISBN10: 0470408200
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781119039181
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-06
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

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. A new critical-thinking framework helps them manage the content better and retain more of what they learn. Increased coverage of diversity and technology is integrated throughout the chapters. A new chapter has also been added on the history and philosophy of education. This book will help teachers make decisions and take responsibility for the consequences of those choices.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Teaching: A Career That Makes a Difference

Learning from Multiple Sources of Knowledge throughout Your Career

Putting What You Already Know About Teaching into Perspective

Learning to Teach: What Does it Mean?

Learning from the History and Philosophy of Education

Using the Curriculum Responsibly

Deciding What to Teach

More Than What is Taught: School as a Social Institution

Crossing Your Own Familiar Borders to Embrace Diversity

Teaching Students Whose Race, Class Culture or Language Differs From your Own

Teaching Students with Disabilities

Meeting the Needs of Individual Students in the Context of the Classroom and the School

Organizing Good Classrooms and Good Schools

How Governing and Financing Schools Influence Teachers<$$$> Work

Contributing Actively to The Profession

Ethical and Legal Issues in the Work of Teaching

Becoming a Teacher: New Visions and Next Steps

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