Teaching From the Deep End : Succeeding With Today's Classroom Challenges.

Encouraging teachers to reflect on why they chose teaching as a profession, this edition includes suggestions for navigating school politics, job searching, and surviving a "testmania" culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belmonte, Dominic V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2009.
Temas:
Teaching > United States.
Teachers > Training of > United States.
Enseignants > Formation > États-Unis.
Teachers > Training of
Teaching
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • Part I
  • Getting There
  • Chapter 1
  • The Teaching Profession: What are You doing and Why are You Doing it?
  • Chapter 2
  • Perception During the Job Search: How to Spot a School that Fits and One that Does Not
  • Chapter 3
  • Your Educational Philosophy: Creating Your Teaching Tenets
  • Chapter 4
  • Reflective Writing Exercises for New and Veteran Teachers
  • Chapter 5
  • Remember the Paul Potts Principle: It is so (If You Think So)
  • Part II
  • Being There
  • Chapter 6
  • The Classroom: Where the Teacher's Path and Student's Path Converge
  • Chapter 7
  • The Teacher's Words: You Can Heal and You Can Harm
  • Chapter 8
  • The Teaching Persona: Who You are When You're Standing Up There at the Big Desk
  • Chapter 9
  • Working with Colleagues: Being a Team Player
  • Chapter 10
  • Dealing with School Hierarchy and Politics
  • Chapter 11
  • Don't Make Things Worse: Avoiding Deficit Views of Children
  • Chapter 12
  • A Pep Talk about Parents: Your Partners and the Obstacles and the Potential Lessons within Your Interaction with Them
  • Chapter 13
  • Seven Yin-Yang Blunders to Avoid in the Early Years of Teaching
  • Part III
  • Staying There
  • Chapter 14
  • Classroom Ethics: 68 What-If's that will Make any Teacher Say "Yikes!"
  • Chapter 15
  • Major Stresses in the Teaching Profession: The Balancing Act
  • Chapter 16
  • The Paperwork Can Kill You: Thoughts on Technology
  • Chapter 17
  • Living in Testmania: Staying True to Your Core
  • Epilogue: Group Hug
  • References
  • Index.

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