The Taking Sides® approach: Controversy

McGraw-Hill/Dushkin's Taking Sides approach--used by the higher education community since 1978--involves bringing together the arguments of leading social and behavioral scientists, educators, and contemporary commentators and forming 18 to 20 debates, or issues, that present the pros and cons of current controversies in an area of study. An Issue Introduction that provides students with proper context and historical background to each debate precedes the two opposing viewpoints. After reading the debate, students are given other viewpoints to consider in the Issue Postscript, which also offers recommendations for further reading. Through this combination--the Issue Introduction, the Yes side to the issue, the No side to the issue, and the Issue Postscript--Taking Sides fosters critical thinking in students and encourages them to develop a concern for serious social dialogue.

We currently have 32 volumes in the Taking Sides® series, and an instructor's guide with testing material is available for each volume. We also offer a general guidebook for the series called Using Taking Sides in the Classroom, also available online, that offers tips and techniques for teaching with a pro and con approach.

For the Instructor: Instructor's Resource Guides

Printed and  Online Instructor's resource guides are available for specific products. Each includes a test bank as well as specific suggestions on how to best use the product in your course.

• Contact your McGraw-Hill Higher Education sales representative to order the printed version of your Instructor's Resource Guide and to get access to the online IRG or call McGraw-Hill Education Customer Service at: 1.800.338.3987 prompt 3
  
  
• If you have an Instructor's Resource Guide passcode you can use it to access the online IRG here.

Note: Due to the nature of the Instructor's Resource Guides we must verify that only instructors have access to them. This is why we do not give online access to these products from this public Web site. Once verified, only instructors are given access to the online versions.

• The general instructor's guide for our popular Taking Sides series. It's full of information on how to best use Taking Sides for your class.
• Please visit our online version of Using Taking Sides® in the Classroom,
  Using Taking Sides in the Classroom: Online Version
  Please note: We are in the process of updating the Using Taking Sides Online. If there is something that you need that is not on the site, please contact us and we will do our best to help you.