Agency Through Teacher Education

Agency Through Teacher Education
Author: Ryan Flessner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1610489179

Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning addresses the ways that agency functions for those involved in twenty-first-century teacher education. This book, commissioned by the Association of Teacher Educators, relies on the voices of teacher education candidates, in-service teachers, school leaders, and university-based educators to illustrate what agency looks like, sounds like, and feels like for people trying to act as agents of change.

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League
Author: Kerry H. Landers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319634569

This book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. In the past, research conducted on low-income students in elite schools focused mainly on the admissions process. As a result, there is a dearth of research on what happens to low-income students once they are admitted and attend classes. This book chronicles an ethnographic study of twenty low-income men and women in their senior year at Dartmouth College and follows up with them four and twelve years post-graduation. By helping to bring visibility and self-awareness to low-income students and expose class issues and struggles, the author hopes to encourage elite institutions to change their policies and practices to address the needs of these students.

No Sanctuary

No Sanctuary
Author: Stephen Lane
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1512603147

The struggle to protect LGBTQ youth in school

Designing Effective Assessment

Designing Effective Assessment
Author: Trudy W. Banta
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470393343

Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.

Blown Dreams

Blown Dreams
Author: David T Straw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 743
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664160051

The story I show begins in 2007, New York City, the year before the financial crisis. The novel centers on three roommates; a teacher, financial analyst, and a bartender. The first part of the story focuses on the teacher and analyst. With their father and aunt’s influence pushing them towards their professions and dreams, both in unique ways, they learn the real lesson will be from reality and a changing world. Soon that world, or worse their dreams, turns on them and they must reinvent themselves afar. With the help of the bartender, they use their distinct talents to get back where they want to be. It’s only when they are away from their past, that they learn who they really are and what they really want. The storyline that sounds like the beginning of a bar joke, is anything but.