The Best Training & Certification in Education Books 2025

1. Developing Your Portfolio ? Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional, Used [Paperback]

Portfolios aren't just for documenting the work of young children--they can also be powerful resources for early childhood educators' professional training and development. From evaluating one's classroom practice to showcasing skills and accomplishments, professional portfolios are a comprehensive record of a career in its entirety. In this book, Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton guide both practicing and pre-serve instructors through the process of showcasing their own teaching skills. The authors present numerous examples taken from successful portfolios, provide helpful tips and strategies, combine theory and practice for developing portfolios, and walk readers step-by-step through the creation process. This essential guide will accessibly and effectively guide early childhood educators through the recording of their emerging abilities.

Developing Your Portfolio--Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff, Used [Paperback]

2. What Every Teacher Should Know about English Language Learners, Used [Paperback]

Teachers across the country are finding their classrooms increasingly diverse, and this booklet is designed to help teachers cater to the needs of English language learners, both in ESL and non-ESL classrooms. By examining the background of English language learners, this booklet helps teachers to create a framework for organizing the classroom environment. Practical classroom strategies for literacy and content education are also emphasized. As a part of the What Every Teacher Should Know About Series, this guide can be packaged for free with a core Education text (with each additional WETSKA guide added at a cost of $2 net to the bookstore) and can also be purchased individually.

What Every Teacher Should Know about English Language Learners, Used [Paperback]

3. Training Teachers: A Harvest of Theory and Practice [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Puts some of the best ideas about teaching and learning into action with innovative training tools and strategies. Helps teachers construct their own knowledge and respect their own learning styles so they can help children do the same. Includes an eight-week course on child-centered curriculum planning.

Training Teachers : A Harvest of Theory and Practice, Used [Paperback]

4. Methods, Strategies, And Elementary Content For Beating Aepa, Ftce, Icts, Msat, Mtel, Mttc, Nmta, Nystce, Osat, Place, Praxis, And Texes [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This resource helps teachers pass the required elementary subject exams for earning a teaching credential.Because passing these tests is now required in many states, this book has been designed to address the essential time-management methods, essay and multiple-choice strategies, and content that test takers must master in order to pass any section of the exam. Unlike other preparation books, this one does not simply offer a copy of MSAT materials. Instead, the content, constructed-response and multiple-choice strategies, and special time-management models for the tests are all research based and tailored to cover each domain and content area of any of the exams. This valuable new resource: Offers effective time-management models. Critical time-management models for taking the whole exam in one sitting or individually are fully explained. Presents the "real" scores required on each subtest. The book reveals the real scores required to pass each subtest and a method to achieve them. Demonstrates effective constructed-response. Eleven essential essays (language arts, social studies, science, math, and the humanities) are presented and dissected for candidates. Deconstructs multiple-choice questions. The multiple-choice section of the exam is challenging because many of the questions are lengthy, jargon-rich, or simply do not count toward one's score. Strategies are required and explained. Addresses each of the content areas from elementary education: language arts, history and social studies, science, mathematics, and as well as the humanities, including P.E., health, child development, and the arts.

Methods, Strategies, and Elementary Content for Beating AEPA, FTCE, ICTS, MSAT, MTEL, MTTC, NMTA, NYSTCE, OSAT, PLACE, PRAXIS, and TEXES, Used [Paperback]

5. Mentoring New Teachers, Used [Paperback]

ADOBE DREAMWEAVER CS5: COMPREHENSIVE, 1E follows the Shelly Cashman Series proven step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to teaching the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software.

Mentoring New Teachers, Used [Paperback]

6. Transforming Teacher Education: What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It, Used [Paperback]

Extracts from the text: "Why are fifteen million children and youth in poverty not achieving when we know that low-income students excel in the classrooms of "star" teachers (who comprise approximately 8 percent of the teaching force)?" "Whose needs or interests are being met in education reform today?" "In my own institution, there has not been a systematic assessment of the effectiveness of the basic teacher education program since the institution was founded over a century ago as a teachers college. Imagine, not one ever " "Teachers who empathize with students and the life challenges they face soon realize that the dysfunctional bureaucracies will not permit them to meet the needs of their students. Half of the starry-eyed beginners are gone in five years or less." "Why does teacher education focus on the managerial, instrumental or delivery system aspects of the profession?" "The expert advice dispensed by schools of education regarding what future teachers should do is not connected to any theory of learning, or to any reality of life in school classrooms." "Why has the recruitment process resulted in a cohort of teachers who are unable to connect with their students?" "Does a qualified teacher equate to a quality teacher?" "The best hope of getting more effective teachers from university teacher preparation programs is to base their budgets on the number of their graduates who serve in challenging schools and their effectiveness with children and youth. At the district level, the salaries of hiring officials should be based on how well these officials identify and retain quality teachers." In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can achieve their potential, and contribute to a vibrant, democratic society.

Transforming Teacher Education : What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It, Used [Paperback]

7. Talking Diversity with Teachers and Teacher Educators : Exercises and Critical Conversations Across the Curriculum, Used [Paperback]

Featuring content-specific strategies, assignments, and classroom activities, this book will help pre- and inservice teachers develop the dispositions and knowledge they need to teach all students well. Focusing on the importance of creating a classroom community in which necessarily difficult dialogues are inspired and supported, the authors present content-area chapters on language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, ESOL, foreign language, and teaching exceptional students in the inclusive environment. Each content-area chapter includes a vignette illustrating a difficult conversation dealing with diversity and presents research-based, classroom-ready exercises, effective pedagogic strategies, and action-oriented interventions--many of which the authors created and used in their own classrooms. The book concludes with an appendix of instructional and curricular resources. This practical volume provides teacher educators and professional development personnel with a framework for: Inspiring challenging and productive discussions about diversity in education. Using content-specific, research-based strategies for discussing diversity issues in deep and complex ways. Understanding how teacher candidates develop as culturally competent educators. Addressing conflicts that might arise when talking about diversity and self-awareness. Contributors: Vonzell Agosto, Sylvia Celed n-Pattichis, Kathryn B. Chval, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, B rbara C. Cruz, Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Elaine V. Howes, Zorka Karanxha, Deoksoon Kim, Miyoun Lim, Patricia Alvarez McHatton, Adam Schwartz, Roseanne K. Vallice, Anete V squez, Eugenia Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, and Eric Williams

Talking Diversity with Teachers and Teacher Educators : Exercises and Critical Conversations Across the Curriculum, Used [Paperback]

8. FTCE Spanish K-12 Teacher Certification Test Prep Study Guide [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. h2>Become a Spanish Teacher with Confidence Unlike other teacher certification test preparation material, our FTCE Spanish study guide drills all the way down to the focus statement level, providing detailed examples of the range, type, and level of content that appear on the test. Completely aligned with current FTCE exam, this book provides the support you need to study and pass the exam with confidence! This study guide includes one practice test to help you test your knowledge, understand how the exam is weighted, and identify skills and competencies you need to focus on. Our detailed answer explanations reference related skills in the book, allowing you to identify your strengths and weaknesses and interact with the content effectively. Maximize your study by prioritizing domains and skills you need to focus on the most to pass the exam. This study guide is perfect for college students, teachers, and career-changing professionals who want to teach Spanish in Florida.

FTCE Spanish K-12 Teacher Certification Test Prep Study Guide, Used [Paperback]

9. A+ Certification Study Guide [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The only established hardware competency certification in existence. Exam has gained much momentum during the past year--close to 40,000 people are expected to take the test in 1998--creating a need for a successful study guide. More than 100 leading companies in the PC industry helped to define/build the A+ certification qualifications--demonstration the wide support and future strength of the exam. Study guides are one of the fastest growing sections in bookstores and there will only be two other A+ books on the market.

A+ Certification Study Guide, Used [Hardcover]

10. Composing a Culture : Inside a Summer Writing Program for High School Teachers, Used [Paperback]

A summer writing program for teachers lasts only a few weeks, but it is an important event, sometimes a turning point in a teacher's career. In Composing a Culture , Sunstein "reads" one program for teachers and writes portraits of three high school teachers who attend: Therese Deni, Joyce Choate, and Dorothy Spofford. Between these chapters, Sunstein also creates interests--shorter landscapes of other participants and events. Often, teachers label a summer experience as "transformation." Drawing from anthropology, folklore, composition theory, educational philosophy, psychology, and women's studies, Sunstein details the informal conversations, events, and personal stories in which the seeds of their changes take root. As a longtime teacher herself, Sunstein looks into a familiar place and sees an unfamiliar irony: the teacher as student, away from her institution in time and space, participating in an event deliberately designed to be different from school. She turns away from the classroom in order to understand it better. She documents what it is to be a teacher. In Composing a Culture , teachers "read" their experience, write for themselves, and plan for their students in a culture quite different from school. And as they do it, they re-think the culture of school.

Composing a Culture : Inside a Summer Writing Program for High School Teachers, Used [Paperback]