Take a close look at the challenges, realities and rewards of teaching today as Ryan/Cooper/Bolick/Callahan's THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 15E helps you make an informed decision about entering today's teaching profession. This edition's highly acclaimed author team draws from current research and multiple sources to pose the question "Why Teach?" A reader-friendly presentation takes a candid look at the importance of teaching, using compelling narratives, biographies, profiles and interviews with top educators. Video cases portray real teaching experiences and new discussions address technology in use with 2020 pandemic school shutdowns and critical topics, such as bullying, high-stakes testing and education reform. Engaging content corresponds to the latest professional teaching standards with digital downloads that offer teaching tools. The authors invite you to carefully consider the rewards, positive challenges and inspiring experiences that form today's high-impact teaching career.

TEACHING FOR STUDENT LEARNING: BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER, Fourth Edition, offers practical tools, skills and advice that pre-service and in-service teachers can implement immediately. Written by a team of experienced educators and authors, this trusted text promotes ambitious and powerful teaching and high levels of engagement and interaction. Ideal for both current and aspiring educators, this innovative text helps readers achieve their goals by focusing on essential teaching tasks and covering topics such as instruction, assessment and classroom management. The text also aids in teacher preparation by emphasizing get-the-job-done problem-solving skills and focused advice. Modules are presented in an easy-to-read and -reference format, giving readers ready access to the fundamental information and professional insights today's teachers need to succeed. The current edition also features a strong focus on interactivity, with videos embedded directly within the eBook to facilitate multimedia learning.

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in the Southern United States presents new and provocative insights into education in the Southern United States, from the perspective of educators with a variety of experiences. This book foregrounds the Southern United States as having unique sociopolitical, sociohistorical, and sociocultural contexts which directly influence knowledge and classroom pedagogies. Contributors use a range of critical frameworks that coalesce around methods including: self-reflection through research, social justice advocacy, and culturally responsive, culturally relevant, culturally sustaining, and asset-based pedagogies. Through the lenses of these critical frameworks, several contributors also address challenges and strategies for teaching controversial topics in the classroom. Drawing upon unique experiences teaching in various regions of the Southern United States, chapters explore salient topics such as race, language, gender, discrimination, identity, immigration, poverty, social justice, and their influence(s) on pedagogy. This book raises questions considering the ways that history has shaped present-day Southern education and about the myriad complex dynamics that influence pedagogy in the Southern U.S. context. Ultimately, this book affirms the importance of utilizing critical perspectives in contemporary discussions about education in the Southern United States.