Books from Merrill/Prentice Hall

  • The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals
    The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals
    By Patricia C. Broderick, Pamela Blewitt

    In order to be reflective practitioners, to understand clients and their problems, helping professionals must have a working knowledge of developmental research. They must view clients in context - as...

  • Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education
    Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education
    By George S. Morrison

    "Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education provides a brief, reader-friendly introduction to the field of early childhood education. Fundamentals presents chapter features on early childhood programs, professionals in practice, diversity strategies,...

  • Assessing Students with Special Needs
    Assessing Students with Special Needs
    By Rena B. Lewis, James A. McLoughlin

    This text not only combines current coverage of formal and informal assessment to meet federal initiatives, but "Assessing Students with Special Needs, " Sixth Edition, takes extra steps showing...

  • In Search of Understanding the Case for Constructivist Classrooms: with a New Introduction by the Authors
    In Search of Understanding the Case for Constructivist Classrooms: with a New Introduction by the Authors
    By Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Martin G. Brooks

    This text builds a case for the development of classrooms where students construct deep understandings of important concepts. The book presents new images for educational settings: student engagement, interaction, reflection,...

  • Intentional Helping: A Philosophy for Proficient Caring Relationships
    Intentional Helping: A Philosophy for Proficient Caring Relationships
    By John J. Schmidt

    This book was designed to help readers create a professional perspective of integrating care with knowledge and skill. It also advocates establishing healthy and helpful relationships for the benefit of...

  • Teaching Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: An Applied Approach for Inclusive Environments
    Teaching Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: An Applied Approach for Inclusive Environments
    By Lee B. Hamill, Caroline T. Everington

    This book educates teachers on how to incorporate applied curriculum strategies into their classrooms so ALL students can participate. A unique aspect is its ability to balance...

  • Case Studies in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with Children and Adolescents
    Case Studies in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with Children and Adolescents
    By Albert Ellis, Jerry Wilde

    For undergraduate and graduate courses in Child Therapy and Counseling. Preeminent psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis combines forces with other renowned therapists to create this rare and inclusive book that captures...

  • Developing Competent Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades
    Developing Competent Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades
    By Martha Combs

    For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Reading Methods, Middle School Reading/Literacy, and Literature-based Reading/Writing. Using a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, this text explores, in-depth, the application of literature-based reading and writing in grades...

  • Children's Literature: Discovery for a Lifetime
    Children's Literature: Discovery for a Lifetime
    By Barbara D. Stoodt, Linda B. Amspaugh

    For introductory courses in Children's Literature. The goal of this book is to prepare future teachers to infuse literature into children's lives, to know to which books children will respond,...

  • Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context
    Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context
    By Patricia K. Kubow, Paul R. Fossum

    A welcome addition to the field, this rigorous, scholarly book departs from the traditional viewpoint of educational systems and structural analysis to thoroughly explore comparative education from an issues orientation....

  • Child Development and Education
    Child Development and Education
    By Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, Teresa M. McDevitt

    Child Development and Education is the only comprehensive child development book written specifically for educators. The authors focus on concepts and principles that are important to developmental theorists as well...

  • Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning
    Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning
    By Paul D. Eggen, Donald P. Kauchak, David A. Jacobsen

    This teacher-trainee textbook focuses on a three-phase model of teaching planning, implementing, and assessing as a framework for creating a successful, learner-centered K-12 environment. The sixth edition includes greater focus...

  • Student Teacher to Master Teacher: A Practical Guide for Educating Students with Special Needs
    Student Teacher to Master Teacher: A Practical Guide for Educating Students with Special Needs
    By Michael S. Rosenberg, Lawrence J. O'Shea, Dorothy J. O'Shea

    How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and...

  • Readers, Teachers, Learners: Expanding Literacy Across the Content Areas
    Readers, Teachers, Learners: Expanding Literacy Across the Content Areas
    By William G. Brozo, Michele L. Simpson

    This book is based on the premise that literacy is, at its core, a social process; and that, as such, it is often affected—for good or ill—by social situations and...

  • Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades
    Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades
    By Martha Combs

    The second edition of this popular book for grades 4-8 again reflects the author's emphasis on teaching reading and writing from a literature-based perspective and engaging middle-grades learners in integrated...

  • Students with Learning Disabilities
    Students with Learning Disabilities
    By Paige C. Pullen, Cecil D. Mercer

    For courses in Learning Disabilities. The new edition of this popular text offers comprehensive coverage of all of the varying theories and practices in the field-educational, medical, and psychological-incorporating assessment,...

  • Human Resources Administration: Personnel Issues and Needs in Education
    Human Resources Administration: Personnel Issues and Needs in Education
    By L. Dean Webb, M. Scott Norton

    Representing a major revision of this comprehensive book, the fourth edition expands the authors' premise that the responsibility for successful human resources administration is one that is shared between central...

  • Social Studies on the Internet
    Social Studies on the Internet
    By Michael J. Berson

    For courses in Secondary, Middle, and Elementary Social Studies Methods as well as courses in Introductory or Specialized Instructional Technology. This annotated collection includes more than 500 Websites designed to...

  • Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Bases for Learning and Teaching
    Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Bases for Learning and Teaching
    By Sue Clark Wortham

    Appropriate for undergraduate courses on curriculum methods in early childhood and primary grade education. This text uses the most current interpretations and applications of classic theories as a basis for...

  • Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners
    Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners

    Intended as a supplement to a theoretical counseling book, this handbook presents twenty-three practical approaches to working with children, adolescents, and adults on such goals as making friends, succeeding in...