Books

On this page I shall provide a partial list of the books required and recommended for my units. Where appropriate I will provide links to the author's, publisher's and book's web site as well as to Amazon.

ESA160 -- Professional Studies 1A

Required:

• How to Make a Classroom Management Plan by Robert Cope. ^(buy)
• Educational Psychology for Learning and Teaching by Kerri-Lee Krause, Sandra Bochner and Sue Duchesne. ^(buy)
• Case Studies in Teaching and Learning: Australian Perspectives by Nola Purdie and David Smith. ^(buy)

Recommended:

• Teaching for Understanding by Tina Blythe. ^(buy)
• Effective Teaching Strategies: Lessons from research and practice by R. Killen. ^(buy)
• Disability in Australia: Exposing a social apartheid by Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell. ^(buy)

ESA166 -- Information Technology 1A

Required:

• Guidebook for Developing an Effective Instructional Technology Plan by L. Anderson. PDF 232Kb
• Tasmanian Certificate of Education Information Technology Documents. Online
• Introduction to Information and Communication Technology in Education by D. G. Moursund. PDF 952Kb

Recommended:

• Technology for Teaching by Priscilla Norton and Debra Sprague. ^(buy)
• Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (2nd) by M.D. Roblyer and Jack Edwards. ^(buy)
• Learning to Teach ICT in the Secondary School: a companion to school experience by S. Kennewell, J. Parkinson and H. Tanner (eds). ^(buy)
• Managing School ICT by S. Hackett and B. Kennedy.

Additional reading:

• The Java Tutorial. Online
• Australian Educational Computing

ESA184 -- Design and Technology

Recommended reading:

• People skills: how to assert yourself, listen to others, and resolve Conflict by Robert Bolton.
• Technology Education for Teachers edited by John Williams and Anthony Williams.
• Technology -- a curriculum profile for Australian schools by Curriculum Corporation.
• The Idea of Design edited by Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin.
• The Journal of Technology Education.