New in Education

"To teach is to learn twice."
~ Joseph Joubert, Pensees

Teaching, as many more eloquent people have said before me, is a calling. Northwest University makes a serious effort to keep their education program up-to-date and comprehensive so that, upon graduating, students enter the teaching force with all of the skills they need to reach their students effectively.

In that spirit, Hurst Library continuously updates their holdings...

These books, for example, are new in this week!

General Teaching Books:

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness is a general companion guide for teachers of all grades and all subjects. The author works with the concept of mindfulness - how to be conscious of your teaching at all times - and integrates that with education, teaching the students the best way of taking their knowledge and using it in all aspects of his/her life. Basically, this is a guide to develop mental and emotional presence in your work.

Multicultural Teaching is a handbook with real world activities and examples for teachers trying to reach a multicultural classroom. This book covers more than just racial diversity, but also addresses monetary and gender diversity. It is a good source for information, but a better source for practical how-to - walking you through lesson planning and self-evaluation.

Rethinking Classroom Participation: Listening to the Silent Voices. Anyone who has taught before knows the terror of a noisy classroom almost as well as the terror of the silent one. In this book Katherine Schultz teaches you to gauge this silence, listen to the quiet students, and insure that your instruction is getting to all of the students in the classroom.

Subject Specific Teaching Books:

The Mathematics Teacher's Handbook does exactly as its title suggests - provides a companion for Mathematics teachers. It comprehensively covers everything from developing a Math-loving classroom culture to making the most of math homework assignments.

Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies attempts to make early Social Studies more personal and, hence, more accessible to the students. This book addresses most of the major methods for instruction and gives real classroom examples. This is the second and newest edition of this already much used guide.

Reforming Secondary Science Instruction operates with the (valid) assumption that secondary science education is broken and that, if we want our children to graduate with the necessary scientific knowledge, teachers need to work to reform it from the inside out. Each chapter addresses a different issue, walks you through a self-assessment, and guides you to beneficial reform.

Ha! That reminds me of this one time, in 10th grade biology, when my lab partner and I succeeded in setting the entire lab table on fire... but I digress.

Come check out all of these books I mentioned
and many more on special display on our New Book Shelf!