Dale Ripley

The Successful Teacher's Survival Kit

83 Simple Things That Successful Teachers Do To Thrive in the Classroom

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Produktbeschreibung

This bookwill show you the strategies and ideas that master teachers use to make their classes work, both for themselves and for their students. You too can become an exceptional teacher whose classroom is filled with learning and fun. This book will show you how.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781475847055
• ISBN-10: 147584705X
• Artikelnr.: 53692844

Autorenporträt

By Dale Ripley

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Fish Discover Water Last Acknowledgements Introduction:
Establishing Legitimacy How to Get the Most from this Book Section One:
What You Need To Know and Do before School Even Starts Introduction: The
Importance of the Teacher and the Power of Positive Thinking 1.The Question
You MUST Answer First! 2.Do Your Christmas Shopping in the Summer! 3.The
Stomach and the Brain - Have Food Available for Your Kids 4.Vomit, Coffee &
Ketchup - Have a Change of Clothing Available for Yourself 5.Mints and
Toothpaste - Essential Tools for Effective Teaching 6.The Best Teacher Prep
Tool Ever Made - Large Capacity Flash Drives 7.Who's the Boss? Probably the
Principal 8.Without This - Nothing Else Really Matters: Lessons from a
Student to a Teacher 9.Establish a Seating Plan That Allows Maximum
Proximity to Your Students 10.Tick. Tick. Tick. 11.The Problem of Pens,
Pencils, Paper . . . 12.How Sponge Activities Can Prevent All Kinds of
Discipline Issues 13.Facebook, Twitter and Twits 14.The Only Three Ways to
Teach a Child 15.No Matter Where You Go - There You Are 16.Is Teaching
Really Your Gift? 17.Half Step, Full Step, Step and a Half: How Many Steps
Will Your Kids Be Taking With You This Year? Section Two: What You Need To
Do With Your Students on The First Day And During The First Week Of School
Introduction 18.You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
19.Pizza and Movies: The Best Investments You May Ever Make 20.Why
Procedures and Routines - The Way We Do Things in Our Classroom - Are
Critical to Successful Teaching 21.Start Teaching the Curriculum on Day One
22.To Know Them Is To Love Them . . . Well, Most of the Time 23.Why Should
the Kids Listen to You? The Importance of Establishing Legitimacy. 24.Fired
Up? Ready to Go? 25.Let Horton the Elephant Be Your Role Model 26.Even
Monkeys Know When Something is Unfair 27.When You Are Vastly Outnumbered,
Fighting is Unwise 28.The Importance of Face 29.Never Look Back When Asking
a Student to Follow You Out of the Classroom 30.Don't Just Stand There - DO
SOMETHING! 31.Knowledge Has Value 32.Did I Do That? Helping Students Keep
Track of Their Achievements 33.Always Have a Plan B. 34.What Did You Learn
in School Today? Section Three: What You Need To Do During The First Month
Introduction 35.Eyes Open; Ears Open; Mouth Closed 36.The Best Teachers You
Will Ever Have 37.Secretaries, Custodians and Teacher Aides 38.Who Knew?
Ten Minutes is a Huge Chunk of Time 39.Maybe Not 50 Shades of Gray - But 49
For Sure 40.What's the Difference Between a Classroom and a Petri Dish?
41.Want to Avoid Classroom Chaos? Bait the Hook to Suit the Fish! 42.How to
Train a Tiger - The Art of Negotiating with Your Students 43.Practice
Saying, "I'm sorry" and really mean it 44.Getting the Elephant to Go Where
You Want It to Go 45.You Don't Want to Send Kids to the Principal's Office
- At Least, Not Often 46.When You Bring a Problem to Your Principal, Always
Bring a Solution 47.When Your Students Tell You Stories about Their
Families 48.How to Get Parents/Caregivers to Look Forward to Your Phone
Calls 49.Parent's/Caregiver's and Emails - Managing Expectations 50.Don't
Confuse Activity with Achievement 51.What Do You Mean You Only Taught That
Once? The 9 Laws of Learning 52.In Pursuit of Peppermints and PEZ(TM) 53.So
You Reached the End of September - Time to Take a Good Look Around You
Section Four: What You Need To Do During the Rest of the Year Introduction
54.Great Teachers are Great Storytellers with Great Stories to Tell
55.Remember the Starfish Story - You Cannot Save Them All 56.You Must Learn
to Adjust 57.Not My Circus - Not My Monkeys 58.Remember. . . There Is
Always Enough Time To Do the Most Important Things 59.Learn to Make Staff
Meetings Productive 60.Learn to Say "NO" Nicely 61.Make the 80 - 20 Rule
Work for You 62.Become First a Good Animal 63.Who Do You Need to Forgive
the Most? 64.If Your Name is Johnny, You Must be Bad 65.I Am Not My Older
Brother . . . 66.Remember This About Your Students - They're Not Done Yet
67.You Can't Free a Fish from Water - Your Students Live at Home 68.They
Already Have Friends 69.Do You Want to Hear a Joke? 70.How to Use Music to
Sooth a Savage Beast 71.When You're Sick, Tired, Cranky, or Having a Bad
Day 72.You Are Rarely the Target - Even When They're Aiming at You 73.Every
Artist Was First an Amateur 74.You Are Never Done 75.When You Stop
Learning, You Are Done 76.You Don't Bring in an Elephant to Teach the Color
Gray 77.How Do You Eat an Elephant? 78.Why We Don't Try to Teach a Pig to
Fly 79.The IKEA Effect - The Pride We Feel in Work We Do Ourselves 80.If
You Are Working Harder Than Your Students in Class, You're doing It Wrong!
81.The Virtue of Frustration 82.Let This Year's Students Help Make Your
Courses Better for Next Year 83.So You Reached the End of June - Time to
Look Back Section Five: What You Need To Do During the Second and Third
Years of Teaching, and Going Forward From There Twenty-Eight Essential
Truths About Teaching Lastly: The Secret to Success in Teaching Three
Recommendations for Further Reading References About the Author