Teaching in the Elementary School: A Reflective Action Approach

Using a unique reflective action model, this book provides you with a step-by-step model for active decision making and accomodating diversity with inclusion to develop a sense of community among your students. Through an easy and inviting writing style this Fifth Edition promotes reflective and creative teaching methods that will inspire you to be a highly effective teacher.

FEATURES FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS:

• UPDATED! Reflective Action in Teaching Model. This unique step-by-step model for active decisionmaking and accommodating diversity is now revised to illustrate the need to plan with standards in mind (Chapter 1).
• NEW! MyEducationLab. Working with a number of our authors, teachers, and teacher educators, we have created a website that provides you with the context of real classrooms and artifacts that research on teacher education tells us is so important. Through authentic in-class video footage, examples of authentic teacher and student work, and more, MyEducationLab offers you a uniquely valuable special education teacher preparation tool. In your textbook look for the www.myeducationlab.com logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access MyEducationLab for this text.
• NEW! Guided Exploration. Instructor-led hands-on activities help you explore chapter concepts and provide examples from teachers of hands-on activities you can use with your students in the elementary classroom.
• NEW! Reflective Action Experiences for Your Portfolio of Professional Practice. Serving as a basis for your portfolio, this feature includes simulated experiences and reflective essays that invite reflection and focus you on ways to meet standards while still providing meaningful curriculum for your students.
• NEW! Playing Catch Up. This feature provides practical strategies for working with students who are not working on grade level.
• NEW! Communicating with Parents. This feature offers practical suggestions for including parents as members of the learning team.
• NEW! Technology Icons. These icons indicate where you will find technology applications that highlight different ways technology can be infused into curriculum.
• UPDATED! Conflict Resolution and Preventing Bullying. The information on these two vital classroom management issues has been updated.
• NEW! Numerous New Reflective Action Case Studies. These real-life examples model how teachers create school curricula and programs, select teaching strategies, and plan appropriate assessments for their students that achieve the standards of their school districts (Ch. 2, 9, 10, 11).

This exciting new edition introduces an updated model of reflective action in teaching and aims to inspire preservice and inservice teachers to view national, state, and local standards as meaningful and important, but not the end-goal of teaching. Through this model, rea5ers will learn how to become more reflective and proactive in the thousands of decisions teachers face each day. Features of the Fourth Edition include:

• PRAXIS II margin notes show where chapter content aligns with the areas of knowledge and topics found on the Principles of Learning and Teaching Exam.
• Chapter-ending Reflective Action Experiences for Your Professional Portfolio are simulated activities drawn from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards requirements and provide opportunities for readers to document the reflective actions they take to meet students' needs.
• Authentic exhilarating teacher stories, Reflective Action Stories, showcase real teachers who begin with standards, but end up exceeding them by creating highly original and creative curricula that meet the diverse needs of their students.