The Teachers, Schools, and Society Video Companion

(A preliminary table of contents)

Chapter 1: Becoming a Teacher

Segment 1: The Pros and Cons of Teaching
Segment 2: The Crusade to Educate Teachers

Chapter 2: Student Diversity

Segment 3: What are the Multiple Intelligences?
Segment 4: A Multiple Intelligences Lesson in Action
Segment 5: A Challenging Student
Segment 6: Assimilating the Alien
Segment 7: Including Students with Special Needs

Chapter 3: Teacher Effectiveness

Segment 8: Teaching: More Than the 3 R's
Segment 9: Classroom Management

Chapter 4: Schools: Choices and Challenges

Segment 10: Alternative Visions: Second-Chance Schools, Educational Remedies
Segment 11: A Tour of a Charter School

Chapter 5: Life in Schools

Segment 12: Teaching: It's Not All Academic
Segment 13: Immigrant Students

Chapter 6: What Students are Taught

Segment 14: Saving Souls
Segment 15: Integrating Diversity into the High School Curriculum

Chapter 7: Standards, Testing and Controversy over Who Controls the Curriculum

Segment 16: Explaining Standardized Test Scores to Parents: A Dramatization
Segment 17: Teachers' Opinions of High-Stakes Testing
Segment 18: Alternative Assessment: Portfolios
Segment 19: Try Teaching 5 Classes a Day, 5 Days a Week

Chapter 8: The History of American Education

Segment 20: The Common School and the Teaching Profession
Segment 21: A Missionary Mind and A Fighting Spirit
Segment 22: The Teacher's Calling

Chapter 9: Philosophy of Education

Segment 23: Essentialism in Action
Segment 24: Progressivism in Action

Chapter 10: Financing and Governing America's Schools

Segment 25: School Board Meeting

Chapter 11: School Law and Ethics

Segment 26: Cheating: A Dramatization

Chapter 12: The Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity

Segment 27: Native American Education
Segment 28: Fighting for What's Fair
Segment 29: Social Change: Desegregating Schools
Segment 30: Identifying Classroom Bias

Chapter 13: Technology in Education

Segment 31: A Guided Tour of Technology in Today's Classrooms
Segment 32: Integrating Technology into Teaching

Chapter 14: Your First Classroom

Segment 33: Your First Day
Segment 34: Teaching in the Education Factory
Segment 35: The Fight for Teachers' Rights

Chapter 15: Q & A Guide to Entering the Teaching Profession

Segment 36: Respect and Salary for Teachers

 

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