Teaching today

Comprehensive and research-based, yet easy and interesting to read, this introduction to education and teaching explores the full spectrum of the field and offers many hands-on and minds-on opportunities for the reader to reflect, analyze, and to develop effective decision-making and leadership skills.Strongly based in reality, this book covers Trends and Realities, Contexts for Teaching (characteristics and constraints of today's classroom), Today's Diverse Learners, Teachers and Their Work (issues involved with the various dimensions of teachers' professional lives), and Schools (school characteristics related to administration, staffing, programming, and delivery of quality service to learners).