For Education majors: what textbooks do your college professors have you using and for what course is it? I'm looking for the texts being used in any college eduation course: Children's Literature, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Science in the Elementary Schools, Math, Social Studies, Writing, Special Population, Gifted, etc..
You can probably go to the website of your local college (not to mention any other college!) bookstore and look up what texts are being used right now for every class there.
I wasn't too successful and thought it would be quicker and easier to do it here. But I guess I was wrong!
Classroom Management: Love & Logic by Jim Fay, The First Days of Schools by: Wong Social Studies: Teaching Elementary Social Studies by James Duplass Mathematics: Elementary and Middle School Mathematics by John Walle
None of our methods classes have books - the professor just lectures. I can't remember the name of my educational psychology book, but it's by Ormrod.
I just bought this book tonight on Amazon: Curriculum Leadership: Strategies for Development and Implementation (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412967813 It is for my MS Ed class in Curriculum Management starting next month.
I have three book for SpEd classes I am taking- Behavior Management A Practical Approach for Educators 9th ed James E Walker Assessing Learners with Special Needs an Applied Approach 6th ed Terry Overton, but they are working on a new ed right now. We had to critique it in class with the prof. Special Education Contemporary Perspectives for School Professionals Friend (this is from 2 semesters ago) Child Psych- (this is from 2005) Infants and children 5th ed Berk For creative techniques in eced I have Creative Activities for Young Children 8th ed Mary Mayesky Then for foundations of reading I have two texts from last semester Literacy for the 21st century A balanced approach 4th ed Tompkins Phonics, phonemic awareness, and word analysis for teachers an interactive tutorial 8th ed Donald J Leu Jr
About Teaching Mathematics by Marilyn Burns is an awesome book! and Sciencesaurus (you can find it on amazon) is also a great one! We used both of these books during my practicum semester. The Sciencesaurus is great for studying the science part of the Praxis II as well. (content knowledge 0014). The S.S. book we had wasn't that great and we didn't have one for reading.
We used Black Ants and Buddhists for Social Studies, and I enjoyed that. But that's an early childhood course.
