Educators Books

I was so excited to receive this book. I knew nothing about podcasting. I can now say that this book has opened up a whole new world for me. I will highly recommend this book to my grandsons teachers. It is easy to read and understand. It provides a wealth of knowledge to me and I am sure to all who read it. Buy it. Use it. Has podcast links and how to.

Bard Williams is a veteran educator and tech guru who has written 300 articles and a dozen or so books on things technological. He runs an education marketing and consulting company called Techthree.

Part One of the Guide includes an introduction to podcasting, how to integrate podcasts in the classroom, and how to evaluate podcasts for classroom use. Part Two provides overviews of about 100 education podcasts arranged by content area. Topics include general education and administration, educational technology, mathematics and science, English and language arts, social sciences, fine arts, physical education and health, foreign languages, and news and research, among others.

If you want to jump in and start producing your own podcast, Williams discusses the software and hardware options and helps you think through planning the content and publicizing your product.

Gerda Lerner, one of our most important historians, has written a magnificently honest and perceptive autobiography. She takes us through her youth in Vienna, her imprisonment by the Nazis, her escape to the United States where she married, raised children and built a new life, her years in Hollywood and New York, and her experiences as a radical during the McCarthy period. It is an engrossing, very human story that will touch and enlighten all who read it. We can only hope that Lerner will follow it with a volume that relates the story of her years as a historian who helped to create modern women's history.

An honest, courageous and illuminating account of a radical life. Also a reminder that our current troubles are not unique. Lerner's account of the persecution of members of the Communist Party USA during the 1950's, the abrogation of their civil rights and the threat to their livelihood should be a warning to us today.

This is the autobiography of Armando Rodriguez who came to the U.S. from Mexico as a child. His beginnings were humble but through hard work and a positive attitude, Armando has created a rich and rewarding life journey for himself. His story is inspiring, detailed and full of humor.

From the poor house in Mexico to the administration of four United States Presidents - sounds like an unbelievable mountain to climb in life, but that's exactly what Armando Rodriguez did. "From the Barrio to Washington: An Educator's Journey" is the inspirational life story of US Assistant Commissioner of Education of Armando Rodriguez who entered the nation speaking no English whatsoever but through a solid work ethic, truly made something of himself. He told his story to biographer Keith Taylor who has made Rodriguez's life story truly come to, pardon the pun, to life off the pages of "From the Barrio to Washington: An Educator's Journey". It deserves a space on any community library biography shelf, and is highly recommended reading for anyone who desire an awe-inspiring tale.

When my mother's cousin, Sylvia, called to tell her that Bill Holtz had written a book about our family, I was surprised. I had no idea anyone in the family was a college professor, let alone an author. Initially I was offended by what on the surface appeared to be a shabby treatment of family I had always loved or felt I knew through stories. However, after further reflection, I realized that the author was telling a painful story of his own struggles as he grew into adulthood.

Granted, I am biased, this being a book about my family. Nonetheless, this is an outstanding treatment of an individuals struggles growing up with an impoverished immigrant family.

William Holtz takes a risk in this moving memoir of growing up during the Depression, inviting his readers along as he explores his childhood from the vantage point of roughly fifty years. He candidly discusses the people he loved, and whom he would one day deliberately leave behind, a family plagued with serious problems including poverty, alcholism and depression.

Even as he describes his youthful rejection, Holtz's expressive and loving treatment of his characters--and his eventual acceptance and appreciation of them for who they are--is a lasting tribute and an excellent read.

This interesting story, part autobiography and full of history, details the incipient days of founding a medical institution. Literally from the ground up, Dr. Bloomfield describes how an idea, great innovation, procuring the funding, and convincing the politicians resulted in the beginning construction. His Part II, "The Act of Creation" goes to the heart of finding the curriculum and the students to use it. Tension and relief bob up and down as the unchartered meets the new sailors. Then the bureaucracy gravitates and its inertia sometimes slows, other time really impedes the progress. Nevertheless, there is something to say for the distillation process, which in the end seems to come up with the right mixture of what should and what could be done.

What comes through the pages is the love for education, the purity of intent that Dr. Bloomfield had. Battling with detractors, some with power and others with jealousy seemed to invigorate his pugnacious side. When he found the good guys, nestled among the many people with whom he had to deal, he had genuine concern for their thoughts and suggestions.

Lessons take many forms and the path to this school showed many roads to take for projects we might consider. Reading about this effort and enjoying the success in the epilogue, I could find many useful suggestions and tactics. Such books bear the signature of the great medical administrators who steered the medical schools in the 60's to 80's in some very troubled times.

Dr. Bloomfield, Founder and Dean of a new and innovative medical school at the University of Illinois, describes the challenges and frustrations of creativity within a bureaucratic state system. His description of the hurdles he had to leap, and especially the lack of support (primarily financial) offered to him, would make most people cave in. Balanced with these frustrations is the extraordinary success he was able to achieve. It is a credit to him and to his colleagues that so much was accomplished. And that is what makes the story bearable. I would encourage university administrators and those interested in innovative approaches to medical (and other professional) disciplines to read this book.

I teach Spanish and ESL/ELL. I often translate materials for other teachers who do not speak spanish and am always looking for good resources.
In my opinion this book is probably not for someone who doesn't know anything about Spanish or who is a beginner. However, if you have some knowledge and are trying to improve your Spanish as an educator, this might be the book for you.
The book is divided into several chapters such as, Information Parents Need to Enroll Their Children in School, The Primary Grades, Success in School, and many others. Each chapter covers basic vocabulary, as well as, how to formulate sentences related to the chapter and a grammar review. There are also practice exercises with an answer key in the back. Over all it covers a large range of vocabulary used in the school setting.

I teach a university class entitled Spanish for Educators and have purchased and reviewed nearly all of the books dedicated to this topic. This book is by far the best. Not only does it give a plethora of vocabulary terms and phrases, it also gives good information and explanation to grammar and nuiances of the Spanish language that are necessary in order to truly form a linguistic base in the Spanish-- not just memorize a few phrases to regurgitate. Overall, a great resource for those in the field of education that wish to gain a strong linguistic base in speaking and understanding Spanish.

Great person to deal with. The book was recieved in a short time and was in the exact condition that was described.

If you want the opinion of experienced educators and theorists, then you might want to add this book to your shopping cart. It is not only an excellent resource for elementary school teachers teaching only social studies but is also for the teacher in need of learning how to integrate social studies into the curriculum. Each article is easy to read and provides a plethera of information based soley on the Ten National Social Studies Curriculum Standards: Culture; Time, Continuity, and Change; People, Places, and Environments; Individual Development, and Identity; Individuals, Groups, and Institutions; Power, Authority, and Governance; Producation, Distribution, and Consumption; Science, Technoloty, and Society; Global Connections; and Civic Ideals and Practices.

At the beginning of each chapter, the authors gives a concise, yet detailed description of each standard, then provides up to nine articles expanding on the standard.

This book also provides the reader with articles on specific curriculum issues, how to integrate social studies, how to use literature, cooperative learning, and assessment.

This book is a wonderful choice for the new or experienced teacher, or for an interested reader of Social Studies topics.

Its 99 articles makes this book by Haas and Lauglin an excellent choice!

This book keeps getting beaten up for not being science or pure sociology, and reviewers keep missing what is excellent about it--the intersection of the writer's own reflections, aspirations and ideas with the violent, dull, and endless world of incarcerated young men. Padnos's honesty about his own motives and feelings give this book a rare freshness. In his attempts to connect the books he loves to the real and brutal world of these men, he illuminates much about the struggles of growth, the uneven progress of our ambitions, and the enduring power of stories to shape all of our lives.

Jailhouse literature is a rising trend these days, and it is producing some of the toughest, most original, most disturbing nonfiction on the market. From the lost souls at Guantanamo Bay to the terrifying Aryan gangs that kill and terrorize from behind bars to the dread-soaked life of a Sing Sing guard, a composite portrait is emerging of the mostly invisible Hell that is the American prison system and the dehumanizing effects it has on inmates and their keepers alike.

Theo Padnos has made a quirky, but brilliant and unforgettable contribution to this literature. From his vantage point as a part-time English teacher in a gothic juvenile detention center in Vermont, Padnos draws us--almost against our will--into a collection of scary, wretched, lost young men who have been obliterated from the view of "respectable" society. In terse, electric, revelatory prose, sparing neither his subjects nor himself, he obliges us to see them for who they inescapably are: versions of ourselves, versions of an America drifting toward apocalypse.

This is a book that demands attention--more attention, by the way, than it received from the prissy, careless Publishers Weekly reviewer quoted above. In garbling the name of one of the chief characters in this book, Laird (not "Lance"!) Stanard, the PW scribe unwittingly represents the blindness and indifference of a society that is a lot more complacent about its incarcerated alter-egos than perhaps it can afford to be.

Outstanding compilation of research. Not "easy reading" but a treasure of useful information for serious students in music education.

The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning is a very substantial reference work prepared under high scholarly standards and useful to the music researcher on numerous topics. It was a required text for a doctoral course, but I will keep it for future reference for many years to come. Amazon's price was the best I could find, even beating the used price of several other sites. Delivery was very fast.

I enjoyed this book from the first word. It moves along with a very upbeat approach to life, pointing out the lovely, the poignant, and the humorous as the author goes about his interesting job inspecting village schools. As a teacher, I can verify the truth of his experiences, and he tells them in an engaging manner.

The book does compare with James Herriot. If you enjoy Jan Karon,or Miss Read, Gervase Phinn will be pleasant reading, too.

This book will be enjoyed by anyone who has a love of children. In particular anyone with any contact with the teaching profession will recognise immediately the situations recounted in great depth by the author.

As an HMI inspector visiting countless schools, Mr Phinn's perfectly captured descriptions of the children, their teachers and the everyday school activities were a joy to read. His exquisite perceptions of the children put the reader into the classroom observing the joys, laughter and at times touching moments which managed to put a lump into my throat. I was there stifling my laughter as a young boy covers him with paint, I was embarrassed as a harrassed young teacher mistaking him for a care worker asks if he has seen the inspectors yet? and I was reaching for my handkerchief as a young blind child recounts a touching version of her understanding of sight.

A thoroughly charming read, which you won't want to put down.