Those Who Can, Teach

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOCUS STUDENT ATTENTION ON KEY INFORMATION. This edition's carefully crafted learning objectives correlate to the main sections in each chapter. These helpful learning objectives direct student attention to the information that is most important to understand and process. After completing the chapter, learning objectives guide students in applying their new knowledge and skills.

CONVENIENT DIGITAL DOWNLOADS OFFER ADDITIONAL TEACHING TOOLS. Students can easily download -- and often customize -- practical, professional resources from the student companion website in order to implement and apply this edition's content in actual teaching. Students can retain these resources to begin building or add to their own personal libraries of professional teaching resources. A TeachSource Digital Download label identifies additional downloadable content throughout the book.

THE BOOK EMPHASIZES AN OVERARCHING THEME: "WHY TEACH?" The theme "Why Teach?" draws readers into the content as it is posed in Chapter 1. This theme is reinforced in "A Final Word" sections at the end of each chapter, encouraging students to remain focused on this intriguing and motivating question throughout the text.

SIGNIFICANT CONTENT OFFERS A BALANCED PRESENTATION OF KEY TOPICS. This edition carefully reviews accountability issues, such as standards, high-stakes testing and reform. The latest coverage also addresses emerging topics and developing areas of discussion, including technology in teaching, cheating, changing demographics and today’s students, bullying, sexual harassment and homophobia, diversity vouchers and recent legal issues.

TWO "BOOKEND" SECTIONS ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO CRITICALLY CONSIDER KEY CONTENT AND THE APPLICATION TO THEIR CAREERS. These key sections that begin and end this edition -- "Let's Get Started" and "Before You Close This Book" -- offer important reflection questions to guide students in this important career decision before and after they read the text.

"FROM PRE-SERVICE TO PRACTICE" CASE STUDIES EMPHASIZE THE REALITIES OF TEACHING WITH REAL EXPERIENCES. Students gain candid insights, both positive and negative, into the challenges and rewards of teaching today as these current case studies present real instructional situations.

POWERFUL TEACHSOURCE VIDEOS DEMONSTRATE KEY PRINCIPLES AT WORK IN ACTUAL CLASSROOMS. These videos, introduced in the text and viewable online, feature footage from today's classroom to help students relate key chapter content to real teaching scenarios. Corresponding critical-thinking questions guide students in discussing and carefully considering each situation, either in-class or online.

CURRENT COVERAGE REFLECTS THE LATEST INTASC STANDARDS. Each chapter opens with a list of the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) standards and includes callouts to help students identify where this key information is addressed within the chapter. These callouts and a standards correlation chart help students connect what they are learning in this edition to today's model core, professional teaching standards.

Coverage of InTASC standards includes a chapter-opening list of standards to help students identify where key standards are addressed in the chapter. These callouts and a standards correlation chart help students make connections between what they are learning in the textbook and the standards.

NEW COVERAGE DETAILS HOW TODAY'S TEACHERS CAN BEST USE TECHNOLOGY. Because today's students learn so much through technology, this edition integrates new information about effectively using technology throughout the book. This edition's full chapter on the impact of technology in education (Ch. 7) is now completely rewritten to reflect many of the new technological practices resulting from the COVID-19 school shutdowns in 2020. This chapter addresses how to use technology to enhance learning for all students, including those with disabilities.

NEW "UP CLOSE" FEATURE OFFERS A CANDID LOOK AT THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF TEACHING. This forthright new feature takes a careful look at teaching today as it portrays the realities -- both the good and bad -- of this influential career choice. The feature supports all information with the latest relevant research.