Real School Issues

Case Studies for Educators

Laura Trujillo-Jenks, Rebecca Ratliffe Fredrickson

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781475831399
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

Real School Issues: Case Studies for Educators shares a series of application-based activities that highlight school issues and that are presented in each chapter with a case study, a brief literature review and guiding discussion questions, to be used with undergraduate and graduate students, and current educators. Across the globe, there are many unforeseen problems throughout our schools, such as issues in Curriculum and Instruction; Assessment and Testing; Classroom Management, Student Discipline and Campus Safety; Educator Ethical Issues; or Parents and Outside Stakeholders. This book uses researched based, problem-solving measures to help graduate and undergraduate students, as well as current educators, construct and develop potential solutions to these problems. The focus of this book is to be used as a tool to assisting learners to use researched based methods to assist them in problem solving "real world" problems in a theoretical, "safe" environment of the classroom where they can be lead and assisted by their colleagues, peers, and instructors.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Issues That Affect the Classroom
• Poor Classroom Management and the First Year Teacher
• Investigating the Demands and Challenges of Critical Thinking Instruction
• Academic Support and Motivation during Second Language Acquisition
• Issues That Affect the School Campus
• The American-Type International School
• The Teacher and the Second Job
• Innovation and State Testing
• Psychosocial Factors Impacting Bullying in a School Context
• Issues That Affect the School’s Relationship with Stakeholders
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Every Student Counts
• Teaching Students to Learn or Teaching to the Test?
• Purpose, Processes, and Change
• Appendix A: Discussion Protocol
• Appendix B: Universal Intellectual Standards Quick Reference Guide
• Appendix C: Seven Steps for Jigsaw Socrates Café and Graphic Organizer
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors