This book was written to provide students with an introduction to the field of education. The book is broken into chapters that focus on questions students may have about education in general. Although some chapters may go into more depth than others, this is created as an introductory text.
Author: Selena Silva-Ortega
This book is the newest iteration of a project that began way back in the Fall of 2006. This book was written, read, and studied by Undergraduate college students enrolled in their first education course.
Pre-service teachers require a strong foundation that includes an understanding of the student’s motivation for becoming a teacher, reflection on the ethics of an educator, awareness of and identification of their own philosophies of education, and an understanding of twenty-first-century skills and literacies. In addition, pre-service teachers need to know the fundamentals of what being …
This textbook, written by California Community College Instructors, comprehensively covers the course topics outlined for Earth Science.
A comprehensive, peer-reviewed introductory textbook written by scholars from the California Community Colleges and California State University. The content, spanning ten chapters, is guided by intersectional, transnational, and relational frameworks that build on current and emergent work in Chicanx and Latinx Studies.
This book is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics, most non-algebraic, appropriate for a college-level quantitative literacy topics course for liberal arts majors. The text is designed so that most chapters are independent, allowing the instructor to choose a selection of topics to be covered. Emphasis is placed on the applicability of the mathematics. Core …
This course covers mathematical topics needed for elementary school teaching with a focus on quantitative reasoning, problem solving, and communication. Topics include structure of the real number system, numeration systems, computation algorithms, problem solving strategies, and elementary number theory.
This text appears to cover K-12 teaching rather than solely elementary school teaching.
Infant and Toddler Textbooks/Resource to be used in a variety of Infant or Toddler Deveopment or practicum courses. Also includes H5P activities.