Introduction to Teaching Helping Students Learn

"Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students and instructors with the tools to achieve the many goals of today's introduction to education course or its equivalent. This book introduces prospective teachers to the dynamic world of teaching and learning and to the realities of the classroom experience by providing engaging student-focused activities, rich real-life examples, and thoughtful reflective exercises that will encourage students to think critically and to develop their own ideas and personal philosophy of education. This active learning approach enables prospective teachers to develop both a core knowledge about education and the critical tools needed to meet the challenges they will face as educators in today's fast-paced, highly connected society. By exposing students to the realities of teaching, the book will help students decide if teaching is the right career choice." "The text will encourage students to examine each aspect of education as it relates to student learning. Additionally, as students explore the possibilities of being a teacher, they will begin to develop their own philosophy of education. This text will provide the prospective teacher with opportunities to explore multiple perspectives on a variety of important issues to today's teachers, and encourage the reader to develop his or her own personal voice as an educator and to make that voice heard in the educational community."--BOOK JACKET.

Diann Musial is professor emeritus of education at Northern Illinois University. James Johnson is professor emeritus of education at Northern Illinois University.