Transforming Practices In Urban Educaton

Author : Etta R. Hollins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351863247

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Teaching to Transform Urban Schools and Communities by Etta R. Hollins Pdf

For preservice candidates and novice teachers facing the challenges of feeling underprepared to teach in urban schools, this book offers a framework for conceptualizing, planning, and engaging in powerful teaching. Veteran teacher educator Etta Ruth Hollins builds on previous work to focus on transformative practices that emphasize the purpose and process of teaching. These practices are designed to improve academic performance, transform the social context in low-performing urban schools, and improve the quality of life in the local community. The learning experiences provided in this book guide readers through a sequence of experiences for learning about the local community that include an examination of history and demographics, community resources, local city and federal governance structures, and collaborating with other professionals. Focus Questions and a dedicated Application to Practice section in each chapter further guide learning and help make real-world connections. Designed to enable readers to bridge the gaps between theory and practice and the actual needs of urban students and their communities, this groundbreaking text helps prepare preservice candidates to make a successful transition and aids novice teachers in developing teaching practices that support academic excellence. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : William De Latorre,Jacqueline Hughes,Theresa Montaño
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1465262474

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Transforming Practices in Urban Educaton by William De Latorre,Jacqueline Hughes,Theresa Montaño Pdf

Author : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317921868

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Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez Pdf

Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! This practical, research-based book gives principals, teachers, and school administrators a direct, inside look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. The authors provide detailed examples and analyses of these practices, and successfully demystify the achievement of these schools. They offer practical guides to help educators apply these successful practices in their own schools. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools will be a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non-urban schools-schools that serve diverse student populations, including English language learners and children from low-income families.

Author : Etta R. Hollins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136715549

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Learning to Teach in Urban Schools by Etta R. Hollins Pdf

This book is about the transition from teacher preparation to teaching practice in urban school settings. It provides a clear presentation of the challenges, resources, and opportunities for learning to teach in urban schools; examples of the experiences, perceptions, and practices of teachers who are effective in urban schools and those who are not; a detailed account of the journey of a team of teachers who transformed their practice to improve learning in a low performing urban school; an approach that can be used by novice teachers in joining a teacher community and making the transition from preparation to practice; and perspective on leadership that can be used to create a context for transforming teacher professional development in an urban school district. Learning to Teach in Urban Schools offers rare insight into how teachers can transform their own practice and in the process, transform the culture of low performing urban schools.

Author : Kenneth Tobin,Ashraf Shady
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462095632

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Transforming Urban Education by Kenneth Tobin,Ashraf Shady Pdf

Transformations in Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively addresses pressing problems in urban education, contextualized in research in New York City and nearby school districts on the Northeast Coast of the United States. The schools and institutions involved in empirical studies range from elementary through college and include public and private schools, alternative schools for dropouts, and museums. Difference is regarded as a resource for learning and equity issues are examined in terms of race, ethnicity, language proficiency, designation as special education, and gender. The contexts for research on teaching and learning involve science, mathematics, uses of technology, literacy, and writing comic books. A dual focus addresses research on teaching and learning, and learning to teach in urban schools. Collaborative activities addressed explicitly are teachers and students enacting roles of researchers in their own classrooms, cogenerative dialogues as activities to allow teachers and students to learn about one another’s cultures and express their perspectives on their experienced realities and negotiate shared recommendations for changes to enacted curricula. Coteaching is also examined as a means of learning to teach, teaching and learning, and undertaking research. The scholarship presented in the constituent chapters is diverse, reflecting multi-logicality within sociocultural frameworks that include cultural sociology, cultural historical activity theory, prosody, sense of place, and hermeneutic phenomenology. Methodologies employed in the research include narratology, interpretive, reflexive, and authentic inquiry, and multi-level inquiries of video resources combined with interpretive analyses of social artifacts selected from learning environments. This edited volume provides insights into research of places in which social life is enacted as if there were no research being undertaken. The research was intended to improve practice. Teachers and learners, as research participants, were primarily concerned with teaching and learning and, as a consequence, as we learned from research participants were made aware of what we learned—the purpose being to improve learning environments. Accordingly, research designs are contingent on what happens and emergent in that what we learned changed what happened and expanded possibilities to research and learn about transformation through heightening participants’ awareness about possibilities for change and developing interventions to improve learning.

Author : Etta R. Hollins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 1315230836

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Teaching to Transform Urban Schools and Communities by Etta R. Hollins Pdf

For preservice candidates and novice teachers facing the challenges of feeling underprepared to teach in urban schools, this book offers a framework for conceptualizing, planning, and engaging in powerful teaching. Veteran teacher educator Etta Ruth Hollins builds on previous work to focus on transformative practices that emphasize the purpose and process of teaching. These practices are designed to improve academic performance, transform the social context in low-performing urban schools, and improve the quality of life in the local community. The learning experiences provided in this book guide readers through a sequence of experiences for learning about the local community that include an examination of history and demographics, community resources, local city and federal governance structures, and collaborating with other professionals. Focus Questions and a dedicated Application to Practice section in each chapter further guide learning and help make real-world connections. Designed to enable readers to bridge the gaps between theory and practice and the actual needs of urban students and their communities, this groundbreaking text helps prepare preservice candidates to make a successful transition and aids novice teachers in developing teaching practices that support academic excellence.

Author : Karen Hutzel,Flavia M.C. Bastos,Kim Cosier
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807752920

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Transforming City Schools Through Art by Karen Hutzel,Flavia M.C. Bastos,Kim Cosier Pdf

This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this innovative approach shows teachers how to use the cultural resources at hand to engage students in the processes of critical, imaginative investigation. Featuring personal narratives that reflect the authors' vast experience and passion for teaching art, this resource: * Offers a new vision for urban schools that reflects current directions of urban renewal and transformation. * Highlights successful models of visual art education for the K 12 classroom. * Describes meaningful, socially concerned teaching practices. *Includes unit plans, a glossary of terms, and online resources. Contributors include Olivia Gude, James Haywood R

Author : Joseph Kretovics,Edward J. Nussel
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033134142

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Transforming Urban Education by Joseph Kretovics,Edward J. Nussel Pdf

This readings-with-text is a compilation of important contributions to the study of urban education over the past few decades. This edited volume includes a variety of articles dealing with the issues and problems of urban education and some possibilities for transforming urban schools through the lens of equality of educational opportunity.

Author : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317412397

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Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez Pdf

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for those who are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain excellence and equity at their schools.

Author : Virginia M. Jagla,Joseph A. Erickson,Alan S. Tinkler
Publisher : IAP
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623964207

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Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning by Virginia M. Jagla,Joseph A. Erickson,Alan S. Tinkler Pdf

Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning provides a fresh look at educational reform through the lens of teacher preparation. It poses the question “Why service-learning now?” as it discusses the meaningful ways service-learning pedagogy can transform the approaches used to prepare teachers to educate tomorrow’s children. The pedagogy of service-learning has significant implications for teacher education. Its transformative aspects have far reaching potential to address teacher candidate dispositions and provide deeper understanding of diversity. Knowledge of the pedagogy and how to implement it in candidates’ future classrooms could alter education to a more powerful experience of democracy in action and enhance the civic mission of schools. The current and ongoing research found within this volume is meant to continue support of the notion of educational reform. Because the vision we hold becomes the reality we experience, it is imperative to consider the question—Why service-learning now?—as we adjust teacher preparation programs to promote engaging opportunities for today’s youth.

Author : R. Patrick Solomon,Dia N. R. Sekayi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000149463

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Urban Teacher Education and Teaching by R. Patrick Solomon,Dia N. R. Sekayi Pdf

This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in teacher education to focus on diversity, social justice, democratic schooling, and community building. What emerges is an emphatic message of hope for those committed to the ongoing project of improving urban teacher education and working in urban settings. Contributors from Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean bring rich and divergent knowledges, perspectives, and cultural experiences to their discussion of the three central themes around which the book is organized: • the conceptual framing of key issues in urban schooling; • pre-service teacher preparation for urban transformation; and • culturally relevant pedagogy and advocacy in urban settings. This book is intended for all students, practitioners, and researchers involved in urban education. It is appropriate as a text for student teaching and field experience seminars, and for courses dealing with social issues, educational policy, curriculum development, and multicultural teacher education.

Author : Aseem Inam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135006396

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Designing Urban Transformation by Aseem Inam Pdf

While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.

Author : Theresa Montano,William De La Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524978515

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Inequality for None by Theresa Montano,William De La Torre Pdf

Author : Yvette Jackson,Veronica McDermott
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416614937

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Aim High, Achieve More by Yvette Jackson,Veronica McDermott Pdf

Many urban educators live in fear: of their schools being labeled failures, of increasingly punitive sanctions, of loss of respect and livelihood. This fear pervades the entire school community, affecting the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of its members. The authors of this guide to transformation in urban schools are convinced that the key ingredient for school renewal is fearless leadership. Fearless leaders work in schools under-resourced and overburdened and serve disproportionately large numbers of children who live in poverty and face racism daily. They are ordinary educators committed to proving that demographics need not be destiny. This inspirational yet practical book will help you bridge the divide that separates urban students from their birthright of a high-quality education. You will learn how to * Adopt a leadership approach, consisting of affirmation, inspiration, and mediation (AIM), that will transform your school into a flourishing learning community. * Build a leadership team of important stakeholders--including students--that is committed to improvement. * Tap into the resources that already exist in your school and jettison institutional arrangements that prevent your school from becoming an enriching and creative community. * Create supports that enable teachers to nurture their students' potential to meet high standards and become self-actualized learners. Each chapter closes with reflections and activities that will help your leadership team produce its own roadmap for change. Succeeding in the tough landscape of urban schools requires more than just passion and a sense of urgency; it requires real skills. Aim High, Achieve More provides insights gleaned from real-world experiences that will enable you to create a successful, vibrant learning environment.

Author : Dennis L. Roberts
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877780242

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Planning Urban Education by Dennis L. Roberts Pdf