24 Teacher Education
Education (PED)
Every Teacher is a Language Teacher 
Edited by Heba Elsherief and Mimi Mason (University of Ottawa)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book disseminates practices shared at the annual event Every Teacher is a Language Teacher held at the Faculty of Education (uOttawa) for all first-year Bachelor of Education teacher candidates. For the past two years, the Second Language Education cohort (cL2c) has organized a day of workshops embodying both language learning theory and practical methods and strategies that teacher candidates can immediately implement in their classrooms. This resource responds directly to calls from attendees for a resource that synthesizes the content shared at each workshop, enabling them to access and implement the rich pedagogical knowledge shared. The book is meant to serve as a textbook for Teacher Education courses, graduate courses, as well as an ongoing promotion of research-based practices created by Faculty of Education partners (faculty and graduate students alike) that should be shared more widely with Canadian language educators, teachers and consultants, particularly in its bilingual format. This publication is unique and particularly useful to both pre- and in-service teachers, as it offers modes of practice based on both research and theory. This means it is neither exclusively a lesson plan nor a theoretical analysis; but rather a synthesis that aims to show how the two domains inform one another. We see it as being immediately valuable for teacher and teacher educators, while also filling a gap in the field of language education more widely — one that embodies anti-racist, ethical paradigms within current interdisciplinary practice in its responsiveness to challenges of modern technology and globalization.
Formats: PDF and Word
Suggested for:
PED 3129 Second Language Perspectives in Education
Mathematics for Elementary Teachers∗
Michelle Manes (University of Hawaii)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This book aims to help readers understand elementary mathematics more deeply, gain facility with creating and using mathematical notation, develop a habit of looking for reasons and creating mathematical explanations, and become more comfortable exploring unfamiliar mathematical situations.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Includes: Activities, examples, and problems bank
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PED 3152 Enhancing Mathematics and Science Thinking
Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Nandita Gurjar (Rhode Island College), Sohyun Meacham (University of Northern Iowa), and Constance Beecher (Iowa State University)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion. This book is targeting pre-service teachers who are taking their first literacy methods courses. Therefore, the scope is a wide view of literacy topics instead of a deep dive into literacy development. We anticipate pre-service teachers will continue their coursework in literacy, deepening their conceptual knowledge. At the same time, we included topics that are not often included in early literacy texts such as technology, family literacy, supporting diverse students and multicultural literacy.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested for:
PED 3145 Kindergarten and the Early Years
PED 3166 Language and Literacy in the Elementary Schools: Development and Practice
Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin (College at Brockport, SUNY)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children’s natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I’m working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
Formats: Online, PDF, and EPUB
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PED 2140 Education in the Primary and Junior Division Arts
Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education∗
Gina Peterson and Emily Elam (College of the Canyons)
Last updated 2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This text focuses on the appropriate use of a variety of assessment and observation strategies to document child development and behavior. Child observations will be conducted and analyzed.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
PED 3145 Kindergarten and the Early Years
EDU 111 – Teaching Math & Science to Young Children∗
Compiled by Sherese Mitchell (Hostos Community College)
Last updated 2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Format: Online (LibGuide)
Suggested for:
PED 3152 Enhancing Mathematics and Science Thinking
The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education
Krischa Esquivel, Emily Elam, Jennifer Paris, and Maricela Tafoya (College of the Canyons)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
To develop a partnership and to tap into the family as a primary resource, early childhood educators must reach out to, learn about, and develop strong partnerships with families. This process requires openness to learning and an effort to understand the individuality of each family and the diversity of the families from which the children come.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
PED 3145 Kindergarten and the Early Years
Teaching Math for Emergent Bilinguals: Building on Culture, Language, and Identity∗
Ji-Yeong I and Ricardo Martinez (Iowa State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book is designed for pre-service/in-service teachers and others who will work or work with K–12 students who have linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds, especially students of other languages (English language learners/Emergent bilingual/multilingual).
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
PED 3152 Enhancing Mathematics and Science Thinking
PED 3187 Teaching Mathematics at the Intermediate Division
PED 4187 Teaching Mathematics at the Senior Division
Web of Performance: An Ensemble Workbook∗
Edited by Monica Prendergast (University of Victoria) and Will Weigler
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The field of performance studies involves much more than actors on a stage. It is based on the idea that nearly everything we do is related to performing. We’ve called this book The Web of Performance because, like a spider’s web, performance connects at multiple points to everything around it. This workbook has been designed and written for students in high school and university who may be interested in how performance works. The chapters cover broad topics drawn from the field of performance studies, an academic field developed out of theatre studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s. Web of Performance covers key topics in performance studies: Performance as a form of Play, Ritual, Healing, Education, Power, Identity and Everyday Life. Each of these topics works like a web, inviting students to explore in multiple directions, across many threads.
Format: PDF
Suggested for:
PED 3175 Teaching Drama at the Intermediate Division
PED 4175 Teaching Drama at the Senior Division
