Call to Teach, The: An Introduction to Teaching

by Matthew Lynch

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This important first edition tackles the immediate issues affecting education. Dr Lynch provides context for those issues with coverage of foundational concepts, and goes on to help prospective teachers understand the demands and opportunities involved in this profession: multicultural classrooms, technology and teaching, the achievement gap, school reform. Finally, he outlines the steps they can take to move forward on their career path. Interactive features offer survival tips, consider professional conundrums, highlight important teacher dispositions, and listen in as teachers talk about the issues they face in the classroom.

391 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2013

About the author

Dr. Lynch is a Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Langston University, a blogger for the Huffington Post, a columnist for Education News, and a education advice columnist for Education World. He spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, which gave him an intimate view of the impediments that hinder genuine education reform. He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to educational policy, school leadership and education reform, particularly in the urban learning environment.

Dr. Lynch’s scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that genuine school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. His research and commentaries have been featured in publications throughout the United States and have centered on issues ranging from school reform to politics. Throughout his career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.

Dr. Lynch is the author of It’s Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade, the newly released A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories, and the forthcoming The Call to Teach: An Introduction to Education (Pearson, 2014). In addition, he is the editor of the following projects; Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Praeger, November 30, 2012), the book series Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman & Littlefield), and a forthcoming book entitled Reimagining School Reform and Innovation (Sense, 2013). For more information, please visit his website at www.drmattlynch.com.