Proven Features

  • Readability. The text's readability makes it accessible and engaging for the student. The authors use different approaches throughout to convey information to make the text as interesting as possible. They use humor and an accessible writing style to involve and challenge the student in active reading.
  • Comprehensive Coverage. Teachers, Schools, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to education and teaching. Part I: Teachers and Students discusses what teaching is like today - opportunities, students and teachers; Part II: Schools and Curriculum looks at schools and curriculum; Part III: Foundations presents the foundations of education; and Part IV: Tomorrow discusses equal opportunity, technology, and what the student can expect in her first classroom.
  • An Integrated Focus on Diversity and Gender Equity. The text includes an integrated, multicultural/diversity-oriented approach in all chapters, including the most comprehensive coverage of the roles and experiences of girls and women.
  • Supplements. The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources including an Annotated Instructor's Edition; an Instructor's Resource CD-Rom (with the Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank and PowerPoints); full-color text-specific Overhead Transparencies; The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Education Overhead Transparencies and PowerPoint slides; the video program; the Online Learning Center with PowerWeb (that includes instructor resources in additional to student resources); Sadker.com and the Resources for Exploring Education CD-Rom (with case studies, readings and media observations).

Pedagogical Features

Purposeful Pedagogy. The pedagogical structure of Teachers, Schools, and Society has been refined over the years so that the overall system is interactive. Reflection opportunities have been added to features and figures to prompt students to think about what the information means and how it related to what they are learning.

Each part:
  • Begins with a Class Act that relates stories from future teachers, teachers, and teacher educators about their involvement in education
  • Ends with a RAP (Reflective Activities for Your Portfolio) section that provides portfolio activities keyed to INTASC standards
Each chapter begins with:
  • Focus Questions that prepare the student for the chapter content ahead
  • A What Do You Think? feature that links students to the Online Learning Center for interactive preparation for the chapter content. Student responses to questions are fed into a national polling system so they can see how other students using the text respond
  • A Chapter Preview that gives an introduction to the chapter
Each chapter includes:
  • Interactive Activities that link the text to the Online Learning Center. Students are asked to apply what they are learning in print to an interactive web environment that tests their understanding.
  • A You Be the Judge feature that presents both sides of an argument. Students can go to the Online Learning Center to respond to the reflection questions following the feature, and have the option of submitting their responses to their instructors.
  • A Frame of Reference feature that takes a closer look at important topics
  • An In the News feature that summarizes interesting education-related new items. Additional In the News summaries are located on Sadker.com.
  • A Photo-synthesis feature that presents photos for analysis
  • A Profile in Education feature that highlights important figures in education. Additional information about the educator profiled is available at www.sadker.com.
  • Numerous Figures, Tables and Photographs provide additional information and interest
Each chapter ends with:
  • A Chapter Review feature that alerts students to the review materials, including quizzes, located on the online student study guide
  • An Extended Learning feature that lists the resources on the Resources for Exploring Education CD-ROM
  • A Current News from PowerWeb feature that details the topics for which PowerWeb articles and newsfeeds exist on the Online Learning Center
  • A comprehensive Chapter Summary
  • Key Terms and People with page references
  • Discussion Question and Activities
  • A listing of WEB-tivities (Internet-based activities) that are located on the Online Learning Center
  • A Reel to Real Teaching feature that highlights an education-related movie along with reflection questions and follow-up activities. Students can submit their reviews of the movies on the Online Learning Center.
  • For Further Reading that provides an annotated list of books on topics related to the chapter.
Each Case Study and Reading, on the Student CD-ROM is followed by analysis questions to help students analyze and interact with the cases and readings.