Books published by Teachers' College Press

An account of the history of science education in the US from the middle of the 19th century to the present. The book relates how science first struggled to find a place in the school curriculum and recounts the many debates over the years about what that curriculum should be.

Responding to current debates on the place of play in schools, the authors have extensively revised their groundbreaking book. They explain how and why play is a critical part of children's development, as well as the central role adults have to promote it. This classic textbook and popular practitioner resource offers systematic descriptions and analyses of the different roles a teacher adopts to support play, including those of stage manager, mediator, player, scribe, assessor, communicator, and planner. This new edition has been expanded to include significant developments in the broadening landscape of early learning and care, such as assessment, diversity and culture, intentional teaching, inquiry, and the construction of knowledge.

Based on neuroscience and their own innovative work, the authors provide the rationale and a step-by-step process for using intentional self-talk and think-aloud methods to improve both language and cognitive development in normal and language-delayed children, as well as in older individuals with disabilities.

Offers a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction that K-12 teachers can use with English language learners. It is broad enough to include instruction for students who are just beginning to build their English vocabularies, as well as for students whose English vocabularies are approaching those of native speakers.

This book provides the education and mathematics education communities - researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and curriculum developers - with examples of children's understanding and learning of mathematical notations, as well as with reflections regarding the role of mathematical notations in children's learning of mathematics.

The activities in this 24-page workbook prepare participants to use the ITERS-R, including explanations for the scoring system, terms used throughout the Scale, protocols for observation, sample situations for scoring practice, and more.This Workbook is to be used in conjunction with the Video Observation for the ITERS DVD, as part of a training package. Each participant will require a personal copy of the Video Guide and Training Workbook, which can be reproduced for use in the classroom for educational purposes only.

Studies the educational and social lives of African American males. The book pays attention to educational attainment, job procurement, and quality of life, discussed against the backdrop of student background and schooling. Its aim is to improve the academic and social outcomes of this population.

Confronting the expected tension between care and justice, this work reveals how these two moral orientations can work together to produce wiser and more practical policies and practices. It explores problems at every level of education and tackles questions in theory, practice, and policy-making.

Argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively within their cultural communities, nation states, regions, and the global community.

This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to tell intergenerat

This text provides insights into how elementary students think and talk about science. It provides a window into the children's thinking about the world, enabling the reader to see how students build complex theories, identify important questions and begin to enter the world of science.