THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 14th Edition, offers a state-of-the-art, dynamic, and reader-friendly approach to help students make informed decisions about entering the teaching profession. Using multiple sources, including biographies, narratives, profiles, and interviews with top educators and scholars, the text exposes students to the realities of teaching while inspiring and welcoming them to a rewarding, high-impact career. The acclaimed author team's direct, conversational tone invites readers to reflect on the satisfactions and problems of teaching in the United States, and casts a teaching career as a positive challenge.

Preface.
So Let's Get Started.
Part I: SCHOOL AND STUDENTS.
1. Why Teach?
2. What Is a School and What Is It For?
3. Who Are Today's Students in a Diverse Society?
4. What Social Problems Affect Today's Students?
5. What Is Taught?
Part II: TEACHERS.
6. What Makes a Teacher Effective?
7. What Should Teachers Know about Technology and Its Impact on Schools?
8. What Are the Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Teachers?
Part III: FOUNDATIONS AND THE FUTURE.
9. What Are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education?
10. What Is the History of America's Struggle for Educational Opportunity?
11. How Are Schools Governed, Influenced, and Financed?
12. How Should Education Be Reformed?
Part IV: THE TEACHING PROFESSION.
13. What Are Your Job Options in Education?
14. What Can the New Teacher Expect?
15. What Does It Mean to Be a Professional?
Before You Close the Book.
Appendix.
Endnotes.
Glossary.
Index.

THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 14th Edition, offers a state-of-the-art, dynamic, and reader-friendly approach to help students make informed decisions about entering the teaching profession. Using multiple sources, including biographies, narratives, profiles, and interviews with top educators and scholars, the text exposes students to the realities of teaching while inspiring and welcoming them to a rewarding, high-impact career. The acclaimed author team's direct, conversational tone invites readers to reflect on the satisfactions and problems of teaching in the United States, and casts a teaching career as a positive challenge. NEW Learning Objectives: The learning objectives correlated to the main sections in each chapter show students what they need to know to process and understand the information in the chapter. After completing the chapter, students should be able to demonstrate how they can use and apply their new knowledge and skills. NEW Material on Technology and the Teacher: Because today's students learn so much through technology, new technology coverage is integrated throughout the book. In addition, a full chapter entitled “What Should Teachers Know about Technology and Its Impact on Schools?” has been completely rewritten to reflect current thinking and practice. The chapter addresses the many uses of technology to increase and enhance learning for all students, including students with disabilities. NEW Up Close Feature: This new feature portrays the realities (both the good and bad) of teaching and presents relevant research findings. NEW Digital Downloads: Downloadable and often customizable, these practical and professional resources allow students to immediately implement and apply this textbook's content in the field. Students can download these tools and keep them forever, enabling preservice teachers to begin building their own libraries of practical, professional resources. A TeachSource Digital Downloads label identifies these items throughout the book. Two 'bookend' sections, “Let's Get Started” and “Before You Close This Book,” offer important reflection questions to guide students before and after they read the text. “From Pre-service to Practice” case studies portray the realities (both positive and negative) of teaching. TeachSource videos, introduced in the text and viewable online, feature footage from the classroom to help students relate key chapter content to real-life scenarios. Critical-thinking questions provide opportunities for in-class or online discussion and reflection. Coverage of InTASC standards includes a chapter-opening list of standards to help students identify where key standards are addressed in the chapter. These callouts and a standards correlation chart help students make connections between what they are learning in the textbook and the standards. The text's overarching theme, “Why Teach,” is posed in Chapter 1 and reinforced in “A Final Word” sections at the end of each chapter, encouraging students to remain focused on the question throughout the text.