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Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (March 19, 2024) © 2025

  • Sara D. Powell Belmont Abbey College

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An authentic journey into the teaching profession

Your Introduction to Education is an engaging overview of who teachers are, the work they do, and the realities of life in the classroom. Designed to help readers discover their teaching identity, the text weaves the real-life experiences of 8 focus teachers and students from 4 schools across the country into its content. A variety of perspectives from a diverse array of educators help readers self-reflect and explore their own path into teaching.

The 5th Edition includes updated data and new content and strategies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion as well as active citizenship and civility.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Teaching in Focus features explore authentic teaching and learning dilemmas and accomplishments, providing first-hand context of today’s classrooms.
  • Technology for Teaching and Learning features present a technology tool or issue, showing teaching and learning possibilities or challenges for readers’ future classrooms.
  • Together comments from the author introduce topics in personal and engaging ways.
  • The Opinion Page explores issues in education using recent newspaper editorials. Readers are asked to think about the issue, consider their own opinions and formulate a response.
  • Developing Professional Competence scenarios probe the issues of classroom teaching and help prepare readers for licensure exams. InTASC standards are integrated throughout the text.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW/UPDATED: Where Do I Stand? self-exploration inventories at the start of each chapter activate prior knowledge and provide scaffolded opportunities for reflection.
  • NEW/UPDATED: Citizenship and civility content highlights the importance of promoting responsible citizenship in an increasingly polarized time, along with strategies for incorporating civic education in all subject areas.
  • NEW/UPDATED: Diversity, equity and inclusion content prepares teachers to help students look beyond differences to promote equity and inclusion for everyone.
  • NEW: Tables, figures and up-to-date data depict the societal context of children and adolescents, enabling readers to more accurately envision the life circumstances of the students who will fill their classrooms.
  • NEW: Discussions of mental health and the negative effects of social media explore how mental health and well-being impact classroom teaching and learning.

The LMS-Compatible Assessment Bank streamlines assignments and grading

  • NEW: Learning objective quizzes, application exercises, and licensure exam practice questions are included in an LMS-compatible packaged file. Application exercises and licensure exam questions in each chapter use a short-answer format and issue a model response written by experts.

Features of Pearson+ eTextbook for the 5th Edition

  • Video Examples, including authentic classroom videos and interviews with experts in the field, expand on principles or concepts in each chapter, helping put the reading into context. The 5th Edition has a total of 58 engaging videos.
    • NEW: 15 new Video Examples incorporate a more diverse group of teachers and principals, including more Black, Hispanic and Arab voices.
  • The Interactive Glossary lets students quickly build their professional vocabulary as they read.
  1. Teachers and the Teaching Profession
  2. Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Student Similarities and Differences
  3. School Similarities and Differences
  4. Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability
  5. The Science, Art, and Service of Teaching
  6. Creating and Maintaining a Productive and Inclusive Learning Environment
  7. History of Education in the United States
  8. Philosophical Foundations of Education in the United States
  9. The Societal Context of Schooling in the United States
  10. Ethical and Legal Issues in U.S. Schools
  11. Governing and Financing Public Schools
  12. Professionalism in Relationships, Reality, and Reform

About our author

Sara Davis Powell is professor emerita of Belmont Abbey College's Department of Education. She began her career teaching children and adolescents, primarily in middle level schools. After completing a degree in math and a master's degree in math education, she earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado and began teaching in higher education in 1995. Dr. Powell was named Outstanding Professor of Middle Level Education for 2015 by the National Association of Professors of Middle Level Education. In 2016, she received the Adrian Award for Teaching Excellence, selected for the honor by the Belmont Abbey faculty and students. Among the books Dr. Powell has written is the Pearson text, Introduction to Middle Level Education.

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