Teach: Introduction to Education

Product Description
Teach is a concise introduction to education that challenges readers’ preconceived notions of teaching in order to transform them into reflective practitioners. Empathizing with the difficulties students face as they move from the college classroom to their own classrooms, revered author Janice Koch invites readers to both reflect on their own dispositions for teaching and look outside of themselves to the demands of the profession, making the philosophy of teaching and learning accessible and relevant. The
Fourth Edition emphasizes the changing student population and the role of technology and globalization in the field, while also including the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) standards correlating with each chapter’s content. With the guidance of this supportive text, readers will gain vital exposure by engaging with professional standards from the very start of their career.
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Teach-Vantage Digital Option, Fourth Edition [ISBN: 978-1-0718-2812-0]
Review
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Teach provides a thorough introduction to education for undergraduate students considering the teaching profession. It is organized, contemporary and aligned with the InTASC standards, something that most institutions value." -- Dr. Katherin Garland
"Designed in a format that will grasp and hold the attention of the modern day 21st-century technological students, this is an excellent book for an introductory course in the field of education.
Teach gives any student contemplating becoming a teacher a real-world current event look at the requirements for becoming a teacher." -- Robert Walker, Ed.D.
"This text focuses on the future educator as a reflective practitioner, offering multiple ways of engaging the reader in thinking about various aspects of education. The chapters are designed to look at the educator’s role in ensuring a safe and effective learning environment for every student in their classroom." -- Kathleen Holt
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Teach is a concise, high quality, student-based exploration of the teaching profession." -- Alfred P. Longo, PhD
"A basic overview for consideration of those pursuing a teaching profession." -- Jennifer Jones M.Ed.
About the Author
Janice Koch, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita from Hofstra University in New York where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in education including introduction to education, science education, qualitative research, action research and science and society courses. She was named the 1995 Distinguished Teacher of the Year at Hofstra and she continues to speak and conduct workshops addressing teaching and learning. Dr. Koch is the past President (2007-2009) of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) and was named one of the Top Fifty Women on Long Island by Long Island Business News in 2004 and 2005. She is known for tackling challenging problems without obvious solutions. She consults to funded projects in education across the country, is a guest lecturer in science education in the Washington DC area, and recently served on the Committee for precollege engineering education for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.