To help new and prospective urban teachers deal with the practical problems and moral dimensions of the occupation, this book offers advice about successful urban teaching. The chapters are: (1) "A Book of Advice for Prospective and New Urban Teachers"; (2) "What's Different about Teaching in Urban Schools?"; (3) "Dealing with the Urban School…

Describes techniques that help teach urban and suburban children the virtues of trees and forests. Includes a listing of book titles that may help teach children about trees. (MCO)

Concrete suggestions for using out-of-school objects to help inner-city students learn mathematical and scientific concepts are given. (MK)

Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be…

Contends that the nature of U.S. urban life has created profound challenges for urban schools. Asserts that music educators must examine innovative trends in policy, programming, and curricula to determine how music can contribute to better schools and a better quality of life in urban areas. (CFR)

The objective of this book is to present techniques that urban elementary school teachers reported using successfully to handle specific problems. The information comes from a larger national study of teacher training and teaching in urban schools which used a sample of 248 teachers, none of whom had been teaching for more than five years. Half…

This book focuses on research conducted in the last 20 years that shows what urban teachers can do to add new knowledge and skills to their repertoire of teaching so that students can increase their own achievement. Dedicated to the idea that all children can learn, it provides hundreds of practical educational strategies. Some approaches that are…

This book shares the stories of 13 successful urban teachers who offer advice on effective instructional strategies, gaining students' cooperation, managing the classroom, and developing curricula that match students' interests and academic levels. Ten chapters are: (1) "Why Teach in an Urban School?" (the lives of urban teachers and what urban…