Educational Psychology: Classroom Update: Preparing for PRAXIS (TM) and Practice, 2/e
John W Santrock,
University of Texas at Dallas
ISBN: 0072981423 Copyright year: 2006
New to this Edition
Video Enhancements: Each chapter in the Update is supported by new video segments on the Student Toolbox CD enclosed free with every new copy of the text. These segments are designed to show readers the importance and relevance of theory to their future teaching lives.
Expert Advice: These interviews with nationally and internationally recognized scholars address the most important areas of research in each chapter and advise students what to focus on in the chapter material.
Teacher Experience: In these interviews actual teachers explain how they apply the crucial theories and concepts presented in each chapter to their classrooms and to their interactions with students.
Strategies in Practice: In-service teachers offer strategies for applying each chapter's content to the classroom in these video interviews.
Enhanced Student Toolbox CD-ROM: In addition to new video segments, Classroom Update offers an expanded CD-ROM including:
PRAXISTM Study Guide with practice questions. The study guide is also available as a separate print booklet.
Additional Crack the Case studies plus electronic versions of the Self-Assessments, Application Exercises, and Site Observation Questions.
Study Resources including Learning Goals, the Chapter Summary, a Test Your Learning exercise, and multiple choice, true-false, matching, key terms, and short answer quizzes.
Professional Resources including a Portfolio Primer and Portfolio Activities, a Lesson Plan Builder, and the Bibliography Maker.
Current Scholarship: More than three hundred 2004 and 2005 research references have been added to the Classroom Update. Additionally, coverage of web-based assessment (Chapter 16), bullying (Chapter 14), creativity and critical thinking (Chapter 9), and the No Child Left Behind legislation (Chapters 1 and 15) has been updated and expanded.
Certification Standards: On the inside cover, material that directly supports the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards is called out to better demonstrate the ways the Classroom Update helps prepare you to meet to these important certification criteria.
Theory into Practice: In each chapter, readers are given several real-world examples of how teachers apply theory in the classroom. These sections, Through the Eyes of Teachers and the chapter-opening Teaching Stories, let you see the practical application of the chapter material.
The Classroom Update: www.mhhe.com/santrockedu2e offers an online student study guide with practice quizzes, web links, PowerWeb articles and news feeds.
To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative.
If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.
2006 McGraw-Hill Higher Education