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New Teachers
Books:
Cochran-Smith, M. (2004). Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Codell, E. R. (2001). Educating Esme: Diary of a First-Year Teacher. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.
Darling-Hammond, L., French, J. and Garcia-Lopez, S. P., [Eds.]. (2002). Learning to Teach for Social Justice. New York: Teachers College Press.
Gay, G. (2000). Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
Grant, G., and Murray, C. E. (2002). Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Herndon, J. (1969/1997). The Way It Spozed to Be. Portsmouth MH: Boynton/Cook.
Howard, G. R. (1999). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.
Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2001). Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms. New York: John Wiley.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2005). Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Michelli, N. M., and Keiser, D. L., [Eds.]. (2005). Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice. New York: Routledge.
Michie, G. (1999). Holler if you Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students. New York: Teachers College Press.
Thomas-El, S., and Murphy, C. (2003). I Choose To Stay: A Black Teacher Refuses to Desert the Inner City. New York: Kensington Books.
Articles:
Britzman, D.P. (1999). Cultural myths in the making of a teacher: Biography and the social structure in teacher education. Harvard Educational Review, 56(4), 442-456.
Darling-Hammond, L., and Berry, B. (1999). Recruiting Teachers for the 21st Century: The Foundation for Educational Equity. The Journal of Negro Education, 68(3), 254-279.
Ladson-Billings, G. J. (1999). Preparing Teachers for Diverse Student Populations: A Critical Race Theory Perspective. Review of Research in Education, 24, 211-247.
Ladson-Billings, G. J. (1995). But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Theory into Practice, 34(3), 159-165.
Semeniuk, A., and Worrall, A. M. (2000). Rereading the Dominant Narrative of Mentoring. Curriculum Inquiry, 30(4), 405-428.
Shen, J. (1998). Alternative Certification: A Complicated Research Topic. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 20(4), 316-319.
Tatel, E. S. (1999). Teaching in Under-Resourced Schools: The Teach for America Example. Theory into Practice, 38(1), 37-45.
Wang, J., and Odell, S. J. (2003). Learning to Teach toward Standards-Based Writing Instruction: Experiences of Two Preservice Teachers and Two Mentors in an Urban, Multicultural Classroom. The Elementary School Journal, 104(2), 147-174.
Movies:
To Be and To Have/Etre et Avoir (2002)
A documentary focusing on a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in rural France.
The First Year (2001)
Originally aired on PBS, this documentary follows the emotional life of Los Angeles school teachers.
Not One Less (1999)
A 13-year-old girl becomes a substitute teacher in the school she just graduated from in rural China.
To Sir, With Love (1967)
An engineer reluctantly takes a teaching job in a working class London high school.
Up the Down Staircase (1967)
A rookie teacher in an urban high school encounters chaos and despair in her first semester of teaching.
Websites:
Center X at the University of California, Los Angeles (http://www.centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/)
In addition to information about UCLA initiatives in K-12 education and school reform, this site offers resources related to academic topics, assessment and standards, and other current issues in education. (University website)
U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/)
This “survival guide for new teachers” contains tips on building relationships with parents, administrators, and other teachers as well as information about student assessment, finding jobs, and other practical teaching-related matters. (US Government website).
National Education Association (http://www.nea.org/teachershortage/betterbeginnings.html)
This site focuses on teacher mentoring and new teacher support. In addition to information about creating new teacher support systems, this site also has a toolkit, with sample surveys, sample contract language, and a sample mentor training program outline. This is the website of the National Education Association—one of two national teacher unions.
Teaching Tolerance/Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.tolerance.org/teach)
This site contains resources for anti-bias education, from lesson plans to curricula to news about issues of tolerance and bias in education. Geared towards K-12 educators as well as students and parents, this site provides access to Teaching Tolerance magazine.
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