Product Description: Seeking a new challenge, Sandra, a happy, successful wife and mom from San Diego, sets off across the border that separates one of the richest cities in the world from one of the poorest cities in the world. When a happily married San Diego woman decides to volunteer in Tijuana, she sets off a chain of events that will test the strength of her marriage and leave her life hanging in the balance...read more

What are the behaviors or actions that teachers take to create high quality original curricula and programs for their students?  The authors have searched out the most creative and adventurous teachers they could find and have weaved their real-life stories into the text.  The text shows how teachers can inspire their students while still meeting the federal, state, and local guidelines and testing standards required in today’s classrooms.   Chapter One begins with a new, updated Reflected Action in Teaching Model designed for teachers who are planning with standards in mind.  Each chapter then begins with a new case of how a teacher has tackled a problem in this standards-based environment applying this model.  Both hands-on and practical, the text also addresses how to incorporate technology in the classroom, empowering students to resolve conflicts, and preventing bullying.  The real-life examples will encourage new teachers to be as reflective, creative, and independent as possible in today’s teaching world.

A guide to reflective teaching covers such topics as classroom management, diverity, standards, lesson planning, curriculum, and assessment.

Product Description: Are you looking for an engaging and accessible resource to support your understanding of classroom instruction? This authors of this text provide you with engaging narrative that brings K-12 classrooms to life. A reflective planning model introduced in the beginning of the text helps you make the important connection between planning and addressing curriculum standards...read more

Product Description: Reflective Planning, Teaching, and Evaluation: K-12 takes a constructivist approach and offers an original Reflective Action model of how thinking, caring teachers function in real classrooms. What's new in the third edition? *Cooperative learning is addressed in every chapter *Includes significant coverage of technology, especially curriculum integration and on-line learning *Planning, teaching, and evaluation strategies consider the unique needs of ESL and culturally diverse learners *Learning Experiences at the end of each chapter prompt readers to use the steps of the Reflective Action model as they develop their professional portfolio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This thoughtful book promotes reflective and creative teaching methods to inspire learners to become caring and effective teachers. The authors introduce the original reflective action model offering insight regarding how caring, relational teachers think and feel on the job...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Promoting reflectiveness and the use of creative teaching methods, this text helps readers explore the roles and responsibilities they face as classroom teachers. The book opens with an operational definition and model of reflective teaching, exemplifying the theme that educational decision-making should be guided by basic values and principles, and based on mutual teacher-pupil respect...read more