Practical Foundations and Principles for Teaching

Table of Contents

• • About This Book
  • Other OERs, Links We Will Use
  • Teaching Platform Assignment
  • Teaching Presentations
  • Classroom Rules Assignment
  • Plato Essay
  • Autobiography Assignment
  • My Teaching Platform
  • Portfolio Assignment and Rubric
  • With Analysis, Focus Upon Functions or Effects

• Chapter 1: To Teach Or Not To Teach

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • Motives for Teaching
  • Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation
  • Teachers Should be Well Educated
  • Real Experiences From Educators
  • Public Perception of Teaching and Teachers
  • Noteworthy Teaching Blogs & Useful Links
  • Teaching Movies

• Chapter 2: The Purpose of School

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • Defining Education
  • Four Basic Purposes of School
  • Functions of Schools
  • How Chronically Disruptive Might a Disruptive Student Become?
  • School Culture & Environment
  • Students Benefit from Diversity of Gender
  • Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay Interview
  • Caitlin Flanagan, Private Schools are Indefensible

• Chapter 3: Today's Students

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • How Students Learn
  • Student and Cultural Diversity
  • Multicultural Education
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Learning Styles
  • Tips for Teaching Gifted Students
  • IDEA: Exceptional Students
  • Glasser's Choice Theory
  • Extra Credit: Here's Why Some Educators Hate It
  • If Families have Culture, so do Classrooms: What did I Miss?

• Teaching Presentations

• • Consider These Points First...

• Chapter 4: Social Issues in Teaching

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • SES & Generational Poverty
  • Social & Emotional Health
  • Tips on Cheating
  • School Violence, Student Aggression & Bullying
  • Who Decides Matters: The Case of Cultural Literacy Texts
  • Helicopter Parents can be Hindrances to Learning
  • Beware the American Assumption that Progress is Inevitable
  • Diversity can get Subverted

• Chapter 5: Curriculum: What Do Our Students Learn In School?

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • Curriculum
  • From NCLB to ESSA
  • Curriculum Terms
  • The Role of Motivation in Learning
  • Bloom's Old and New Taxonomies
  • Anna Deavere Smith Teaches What Students Don't Get Otherwise

• Chapter 6: Effective Teaching

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • 15 Learning Theories in Education
  • What Is A Great Teacher?
  • Classroom Management
  • Zone of Proximal Development & Scaffolding
  • If the Best Teachers Draw the Toughest Students, What Then?
  • Imagine Using the Hornbooks
  • How Might You Teach the Bat and the Weasels?
  • For Women to Teach, They had to Disavow any Private Gain
  • Rafe Esquith’s Advice About Shaking Up Things may Actually be Reversed
  • Far Too Many Novice Teachers are Looking for the Cookbook Modules

• Chapter 7: Philosophical Foundations of American Education

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • How Do Our Values, Beliefs, and Philosophies Form Our Teachers?
  • Student-centered v. Subject-centered Curriculum
  • Deductive & Inductive Reasoning
  • Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism & Reconstructionism
  • B.F. Skinner, Behaviorism & Constructivism
  • The Memory Room Technique
  • Bertrand Russell's Views of Plato and Socrates are Enlightening
  • Plato's Dialogues: Crito and Meno
  • Insults Even had a Pattern: Check out Vituperation!
  • Avoid the Trap of Essentialist Thinking

• Chapter 8: Legal and Ethical Issues

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • What Legal And Ethical Responsibilities Do Teachers Have?
  • Fundamental Approaches to Analyzing Ethics & Moral Actions
  • Ethical & Legal Terms
  • Students' Rights
  • John Taylor Gatto: Use His Ideas
  • Many Social Studies Teachers are not History Majors. . . This Matters

• Chapter 9: Educational Technology

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • How Is Technology Used In And For School?
  • Technology and Self Reliance
  • Life and Death By PowerPoint
  • Technology Today
  • NYSED Educator Resources Pages

• Chapter 10: Educational Opportunity in America

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • History of Education
  • Key Terms of Educational History
  • Freire Institute
  • What Iterations Of American Schooling Have We Gone Through?

• Chapter 11: Educational Administration, Governing & Financing

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • Who Governs Our Schools?
  • How Do We Run Our Schools?
  • The Growing Federal Role in Education can be Problematic
  • Unions Matter

• Chapter 12: The Teaching Profession

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • After Graduation... How to Begin Job Hunting
  • Job Opportunities
  • Your First Year in Education
  • Retirement Systems
  • Team Teaching
  • Expert v. Novice Teachers
  • NBPTS, NEA & AFT
  • Scholastic has a Site on Creating a Professional Portfolio

• Chapter 13: Educational Reform

• • Topic Introduction
  • Topic Objectives
  • Are Our Schools Broken? Do They Need To Be Fixed?
  • Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

• Chapter 14: And now for Something Completely Different: Monty Python and Education

• • Philosophers' Football
  • The Black Knight
  • The Argument Clinic
  • Dead Bishop on the Landing
  • Marching Up and Down the Square
  • Ministry of Silly Walks
  • The Spanish Inquisition
  • The Witch Scene
  • I Have Many Names. Some Call Me. . . Tim?
  • Crunchy Frog
  • Constitutional Peasants Scene

• Chapter 15: Skills for Navigating the Course Successfully

• • How to Annotate Your Text
  • Tips for Improving Online Discussions
  • Practice Active Inquiry
  • Treat the UMGC Academic Integrity Tutorial as a Series of Lessons
  • Avoid Relativism (Because I Think So)
  • Relating Text with Citated Materials

• Additional Chapters

• • About the OER Creator