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Urban teaching : the essentials / Lois Weiner.
LIBRA LC5119.8 .W45 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Lois.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--United States.
- Education, Urban.
- Urban schools.
- United States.
- Teachers--Training of--United States.
- Teachers.
- Teachers--Training of.
- Urban schools--United States.
- Minorities--Education--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Education.
- Teaching--Social aspects--United States.
- Teaching.
- Teaching--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 103 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- This bestselling guide to urban teaching has been updated and revised to reflect today's challenges, including testing pressures, inclusive classrooms, and helping second language learners. Lois Weiner, a highly regarded teacher with years of experience supervising new teachers in urban and suburban schools, provides invaluable "insider" recommendations for thriving in culturally diverse classrooms and coping with school realities ranging from overcrowded classes and a lack of appropriate materials to frustrating bureaucracy and school violence. This guide is an invaluable resource for teacher educators and essential reading for teachers at all grade levels.
- Contents:
- 1 A Book of Advice for Prospective and New Urban Teachers 3
- 2 What's Different About Teaching in Urban Schools? 15
- Distinguishing Characteristics of Urban Schools 15
- Prescription for Success: Acquire the Ability to Reflect 19
- 3 Dealing with the Urban School System 23
- 4 The Urban School Setting 35
- Your First Job 35
- Your Relations with Colleagues 37
- Books, Materials, and Supplies 45
- Space 47
- Clerical Work 47
- 5 Your Relations with Teachers, the Union, and Administrators 49
- Administrators and Colleagues 49
- The Teachers' Union 56
- 6 Your Students 60
- Applying Information About Cultural Differences 61
- The Teacher as Learner 70
- Including All Students 72
- Knowing the Subject Matter 76
- 7 Managing Your Classroom 79
- Dealing with School Violence 85
- Establishing Your Moral Authority 90
- 8 Your Moral and Political Obligations 95.
- ISBN:
- 0807746436
- OCLC:
- 60669160
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