Teacher Training Books

Envites great practical applications and helpful advice on child behavior, safety, health, and learning. Offers ideas for developmentally appropriate learning opportunities, and the tools needed to accept responsibility at their own level. A must have in the Childcare field.

Yes, lets get serious. This textbook provides a serious, in-depth look at male-female relations. I am a university professor in California, and I have successfully used this book in my classes. The book is not perfect, but its major fault is the lack of a new edition.

Wow, this book is absolutely the most sexist book I have ever read. Some of the things that she spouts are completely ridiculous. Not only does she present "facts" that are nothing more then something she conjured up; she is constantly refuting proven facts and studies, stating that she is right and they are wrong.

I don't know if she has something against males or is just a hateful woman. I can't believe that anyone would actually publish such garbage.

The book is called gender roles, but feminist roles is more accurate. The book only provides for one point of view and it constantly states how men are evil and constantly holding women down and making this world terrible.

Read it if you want a good laugh and you can stand someone blabbing about some fantasies that she has for the ending of male society, possibly then ending of the male gender.

Excellent work: deep, serious, penetrating. People should make comments on the book without having read it. Not an easy read. It is a serious work and requires time and patience (and some familiarity with sociological ideas and concepts). Two negative, pre-mature, anti-intellectual reviews should be removed immediately. This is not a political polemic or grocery store paperback. You have got to read the book and it will take time to digest the arguments.

Perhaps another person with a chip in their shoulder, hiding behind academic credentials.
Example: ch4 Dr. Lindsey spouts such gems as...

"It would be insulting for grown men to be called boys but we routinely refer to grown women as girls. College students take for granted the "guys-girls" distinction so that males do not have to be referred to as "boys." In this manner, linguistic practice routinely implies that females are immature, helpless, and incapable. Males are complete beings who readily take on adult qualities and females are sexual childlike objects who linguistically retain an immature status through-out their lives." **How about this one?.....
"A poet becomes a poetess and an usher an usherette. Again, women are defined as a kind of male appendage that are the exceptions to the male-as-norm rule- imitators not to be taken seriously." Get real!

Caine, Caine, and friends have succeeded again, with their new, effectively written book about brain/mind principles. Their earlier book, "Making Connections," is a primer about how the brain learns best. In this new book the authors delineate each of the 12 learning principles in a way that any teacher can use and benefit from. I recommend this book highly as an addition to professional libraries at every educational level.

This book is probably the best which I have read on its level. Packed with useful information, organized, and containing many clever examples and some humor as well. Most importantly, Professors Brown and Attardo provide many differnt viewpoints of linguistics concerning theory, rather than some of the one-sided books I have read. This is a must read for anyone wishing to jump into linguistics.

Goodlad's book, Teachers For Our Nation, offers insightful, useful information for persons in charge of educating future teachers. Unfortunately, our nation's economically disadvantaged students are losing the war because educators fail to meet their needs. Parent involvement is at an all time low. Goodlad's postulates need to be seriously considered because the teacher, truly, is the "key" player. If we improve the skills of the teacher, we will improve the skills of the student.