What do you think?
Rate this book
Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching
Sara Davis Powell's Your Introduction to Education is the Introduction to Teaching/Foundations text - built from the ground up on authentic classroom experience - that empowers future teachers to explore content and classrooms, reflect on what they’re learning, and develop their own sense of the kind of teacher they aspire to be.
448 pages, Paperback
First published January 11, 2011
4 people are currently reading
31 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
Read
December 21, 2023I read this whole textbook for class, so you can bet your ass it’s going towards my reading goal.
March 12, 2014
Six chapters of this book was included in the custom textbook for my foundations of education masters class.
Overall, I found the information to be well presented. The headings are color coded which really helps when dissecting the text (trust me, at masters level, you do so much reading that you have to learn to skim very well and the better the text features, the better your skimming). There are also nice charts and graphs that enhance the text content.
The only section I had a problem with was the "Schools" chapter. The author has a very obvious bias toward traditional public schools and it interferes with the information presented. The author also needs to check her facts on school choice. She insinuates that private schools involved in school choice can pick and choose what students they take. Had she done her research, she would have found that in Milwaukee School Choice (one of the oldest and most successful school choice systems), this is not true at all and that students also have the right to opt out of religious instruction. If this is not true in another system, it would have been better to specify the specific source of this information.
The other chapters are fine, therefore, I gave the book (what I read of it) three stars.
I did not use the quizzes at the beginning and end of the chapters but I would totally use them in class with undergrads (even if you don't have this text as the text you are using).
Overall, I found the information to be well presented. The headings are color coded which really helps when dissecting the text (trust me, at masters level, you do so much reading that you have to learn to skim very well and the better the text features, the better your skimming). There are also nice charts and graphs that enhance the text content.
The only section I had a problem with was the "Schools" chapter. The author has a very obvious bias toward traditional public schools and it interferes with the information presented. The author also needs to check her facts on school choice. She insinuates that private schools involved in school choice can pick and choose what students they take. Had she done her research, she would have found that in Milwaukee School Choice (one of the oldest and most successful school choice systems), this is not true at all and that students also have the right to opt out of religious instruction. If this is not true in another system, it would have been better to specify the specific source of this information.
The other chapters are fine, therefore, I gave the book (what I read of it) three stars.
I did not use the quizzes at the beginning and end of the chapters but I would totally use them in class with undergrads (even if you don't have this text as the text you are using).
December 2, 2014
Very googd and consise for those wanting to be teachers. Covers all the basics and everything you need to know.
Read
April 19, 2017I found this textbook more helpful than the other we used in my Democracy in Education course - the online features were especially beneficial
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews