Professional Core Cases for Teacher Decision-Making

by Greenwood, Gordon E.; Fillmer, Henry T.

• ISBN13: 9780134328409
• ISBN10: 013432840X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

A supplement for freshman/graduate-level courses in Educational Psychology, Teaching Methods, Classroom Management, Human Growth and Development, and Foundations of Education. This collection of thirty thought-provoking cases written in a familiar script/screenplay dialogue format focuses on a broad range of problems and situations that both beginning and experienced teachers are likely to encounter in the classroom in the elementary, middle, and secondary grades. Firmly based on the realities of contemporary teaching, the cases were derived from two major sources the professional knowledge and content commonalities of ten teacher certification exams from 47 of 50 states, and a research review of the problems of beginning teachers.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Classroom Management and Motivation Cases

Nasty Nicholas

Keeping Your Eyes Open

Token Learning

What Price Glory?

Taking Charge

Getting to Know You

Curriculum and Planning

Individualizing Instruction

Objecting to Objectives

Denequa's Dilemma

Teaching in Poverty

Computer Confusion

Alice in Wonderland

Instruction and Evaluation

Heresy or Good Teaching?

Whose Grades?

Different Strokes

Joan's Miscommunication

Parent Power

Individual Differences and Exceptionalities

It Takes All Kinds

Division and Fractions

Guys and Dolls

Go Team!

Withdrawn Wanda

To Be Or Not To Be?

Victoria's Secret

The Excesses of Youth

Conditions of Work

Plan or Be Planned For

Welcome Aboard!

Sixteen Tons

The Rebel

The Overstressed Disciplinarian

Appendices

Theory Guide

Using the Case Method of Teaching

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