estsellers - Teachers College Press

2003 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
Teaching Science
for Social Justice
Angela Calabrese Barton, with
Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett,
and Margery D. Osborne
“An excellent professional development
resource for any educator striving to
make a science programs relevant
and meaningful.”
—Green Teacher
“This is must-read material for urban
science educators.”
—Science Books & Films
2003/208 pp./PB, $27.95/4383-6
HC, $51/4384-3
The Teaching for Social Justice Series
Windows on Teaching Math
Cases of Middle and Secondary
Classrooms
Edited by Katherine K. Merseth
Foreword by Carne Barnett Clarke
This guide provides pre-case discussion
exercises, focuses on topics
that are often difficult to teach
and challenging for students to
learn, and presents actual student
responses that exhibit the misunderstandings
and ambiguities of
thinking.
2003/112 pp./PB, $26.95/4278-5
large format
facilitator’s guide:
2003/64 pp./PB, $26.95/4279-2
large format
Mind, Brain,
and Education
Natural
Learning for
a Connected
World
Education,
Technology, and
the Human
Brain
Renate N. Caine
and Geoffrey
Caine
Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce
“This excellent guide blends research
from neuroscience with valuable
insights from the authors’ direct work
with teachers and students.”
—Milton Chen, The George
Lucas Educational Foundation
In their important new book, the
authors who pioneered brain/mind
learning (with the publication
of Making Connections: Teaching
and the Human Brain) describe an
approach for integrating technology
into teaching that will help all students
learn with greater depth and
ease. They provide a step-by-step
description and successful examples
from practice so that we can
finally provide the learning environments
essential for our children to
thrive in the knowledge age.
2011/256 pp./PB, $26.95/5189-3
HC, $64/5190-9
large format
Beyond
Smarter
Mediated
Learning and
the Brain’s
Capacity for
Change
Reuven
Feuerstein,
Refael
Feuerstein, and Louis H. Falik
“Reuven Feuerstein is one of a handful
of educational thinkers and practitioners
who has made a significant, lasting
contribution to our understanding
of human learning.”
—Howard Gardner
This book is the most up-to-date
summary of Reuven Feuerstein’s
thinking and includes dramatic
case studies and accessible
descriptions of his tools and methods
for cognitive modifiablilty and
mediated learning.
2010/192 pp./PB, $30.95/5118-3
HC, $60/5119-0
The New
Science of
Teaching and
Learning
Using the Best
of Mind, Brain,
and Education
Science in the
Classroom
Tracey
Tokuhama-Espinosa
Foreword by Pat Wolfe
“I recommend this book to every
teacher. It will clarify many issues and
promote many educational initiatives.”
—Antonio M. Battro, M.D.,
President, International Mind,
Brain and Education Society
This book offers a definitive, scientifically
grounded guide for better
teaching and learning practices.
While parents and teachers are
often bombarded with promises
of “a better brain,” this book
distinguishes true, applicable
neuroscience from the popular neuromyths
that have gained currency
in education. Each instructional
guideline presented in the book is
accompanied by real-life classroom
examples to help teachers envision
the direct application of the information
in their own schools.
2010/208 pp./PB, $30.95/5033-9
HC, $66/5034-6
What Learning Looks Like
Mediated Learning in
Theory and Practice, K–6
Reuven Feuerstein
and Ann Lewin-Benham
Foreword by James A. Bellanca
See page 37 for description
Thinking-Based Learning
Promoting Quality Student
Achievement in the 21st Century
Robert J. Swartz, Arthur L. Costa,
Barry K. Beyer, Rebecca Reagan,
and Bena Kallick
See page 30 for description
Big Science for
Growing Minds
Constructivist Classrooms
for Young Thinkers
Jacqueline Grennon Brooks
Foreword by Doris Pronin Fromberg
See page 6 for description
Teaching Minds
How Cognitive Science
Can Save Our Schools
Roger Schank
See page 57 for description
Thinking/
Cooperative
Learning
Thinking-
Based
Learning
Promoting
Quality Student
Achievement in
the 21st Century
Robert J. Swartz,
Arthur L. Costa,
Barry K. Beyer,
Rebecca Reagan, and Bena Kallick
Foreword by David Perkins
“These five authors have spent much
of their long and distinguished careers
thinking about thinking and its cultivation.
Their insights and practical
guidance could not be more timely or
needed.
—Jay McTighe, co-author,
Understanding by Design
This book provides accessible educational
practices that teachers can
use to infuse skillful thinking into
standards-based content instruction
in any subject area or grade
level. Specific chapters look at the
role of metacognition in the classroom,
translating good thinking into
good writing, and assessment of
progress in thinking.
2010/288 pp./PB, $30.95/5098-8
Teaching for
Thinking Today
Theory, Strategies, and
Activities for the K–8 Classroom
Selma Wassermann
Using new data from her extensive
field work, Wassermann (co-author
of the original Teaching for Thinking)
provides a wealth of innovative
classroom strategies that will
enable and empower students to
grasp the “big ideas” across virtually
all curriculum areas and apply
this knowledge to problem solving.
2009/224 pp./PB, $24.95/5012-4
Also by Selma Wassermann:
See author index
Unscripted Learning
Using Improv Activities
Across the K–8 Curriculum
Carrie Lobman and
Matthew Lundquist
In this practical book, teachers
will discover how to use improv
throughout the K–8 curriculum to
boost creativity and to develop a
class into a finely tuned learning
ensemble.
2007/208 pp./PB, $27.95/4797-1
large format
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