The Classroom of Choice Giving Students What They Need and Getting What You Want by Jonathan C Erwin

Teachers everywhere face the daily challenge of engaging students whose knowledge, skills, needs, and temperaments vary greatly. How does a teacher establish a learning environment that supports the class as a whole while meeting the particular needs of individual students?

 

 

Teacher Jonathan C. Erwin believes the answer lies in offering real opportunities to students rather than throwing up the obstacles inherent to traditional discipline and motivation techniques. At the heart of his approach are the five basic human needs of William Glasser's Choice Theory: survival and security, love and belonging, power through cooperation and competency, freedom, and fun. By understanding and attending to these needs, teachers can customize and manage a classroom environment where students learn to motivate and monitor themselves.

 

 

Drawing on theories and practices from experts in a variety of learning techniques, Erwin explores each of the five basic needs to create nearly 200 adaptable strategies for teaching and classroom management at any grade level. Readers will find dozens of ideas for helping students make positive changes, including

* Improving their work habits, 

* Connecting curriculum with individual interests, 

* Opening lines of communication with teachers and other students, 

* Boosting self-worth through accomplishment, and 

* Supporting their classmates in cooperative work.

 

 

Erwin ties everything together in a unit guide that allows teachers to develop a classroom profile based on the needs of individual students. The guide can be used with any district planning approach or curriculum.

For teachers seeking a win-win situation in managing their classrooms, The Classroom of Choice is an excellent aid in creating a learning environment where students and teachers approach each day with energy and enthusiasm.

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Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Primary School 3rd Edition

Speaking and listening, along with reading and writing, are essential components of literacy and learning development within the National Primary Strategy.

 

 

This best-selling introductory text updates teachers on national developments and best practice in speaking and listening in the classroom through:

· Speaking and listening issues: a review

· Story-telling and drama

· Oral and popular culture and media

· Planning for talk across the curriculum

· The impact of ICT: software, email, internet, computer games

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Teaching Practice A Guide for Early Childhood Students by Rosemary Perry

Teaching young children requires more than an ability to set goals, apply techniques and assess outcomes. It involves developing trusting relationships, deciding what children need to know, creating secure and stimulating learning environments and working cooperatively with other significant adults in the children's lives.

This book will help teachers prepare for and make the most of the teaching practice in a variety of early childhood settings. Among the issues discussed are ways of knowing and relating to children; the early childhood curriculum; effective social and physical environments for learning and teaching; and working collaboratively with colleagues and parents.

The practical guidelines and suggestions offered in the book are aimed at challenging teachers to do their own thinking about learning and teaching, encouraging them to employ their specialized and personal knowledge in the development of sound teaching practices and dynamic learning environments.

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Teaching Learning and Study Skills A Guide for Tutors

This is a book for tutors, lecturers and teachers in further and higher education, who need to teach their students how to study, learn and communicate effectively.

 

 

Based around the same techniques and contents as the tutors earlier book Essential Study Skills (SAGE 2003) which is itself based on many years experience of teaching and mentoring students in higher education, this book is intended to work with traditional and non-traditional students.

 

 

The material will be suitable for institutions concerned with widening participation; with student retention; with quality enhancement; with equal opportunities and with professional /staff development.

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Teaching Introduction to Womens Studies Expectations and Strategies

This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised.

The collection serves as a resource and preparatory text for all teachers of the course including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and all teachers interested in innovative practices.

The contributors discuss the larger political context in which the course has become a central representative of women's studies to a growing, although less feminist-identified, population. Increased enrollments and changes in student population are noted as a result, in part, of the popularity of Introduction to Women's Studies courses in fulfilling GED and "diversity" requirements.

New forms of student resistance in a climate of backlash and changes in course content in response to internal and external challenges are also discussed. Evidence is provided for an emerging paradigm in the conceptualization of the introductory course as a result of challenges to racism, heterosexism, and classism in women's studies voiced by women of color and others in the 1980s and 1990s. Sensationalist charges that women's studies teachers, including those who teach the Introduction to Women's Studies course, are the academic shock troops of a monolithic feminism are challenged and refuted by the collection's contributors who share their struggles to make possible classrooms in which informed dialogue and disagreement are valued.

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Teaching at University A Guide for Postgraduates and Researchers by Kate Morss and Rowena Murray

Are you a postgraduate student just beginning to teach? Are you a contract researcher, teaching fellow or instructor who has been asked to do some teaching? If you are, you may feel you have been ‘thrown in at the deep end’.

 

 

You may quite rightly, feel unprepared for the task, and, like other postgraduate teachers, you may be facing a number of dilemmas: you may not have much time to feel your way into this new role; you may not be happy with what looks like a ‘trial and error’ model of learning to teach; you may even feel you have not had much choice in what you are to teach or what kinds of sessions you’ve been asked to facilitate. Someone in your department may have tried to reassure you -- ‘You know all this stuff. You’ll be fine’ -- on the basis of your first degree, but you may still be worried about whether or not you are really ready to teach.

 

 

Teaching at University has been written to provide you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions, and assessments with confidence. Clear and engaging throughout, this guide will offer:

 

Accessible and generic language to support postgraduates in all disciplines

Basic but relevant advice

A direct and practical approach and style

An emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence in the first few classes you teach

Integration of theory (in small doses) with practice

With an application spanning the disciplines, Teaching at University is the essential companion for all teaching postgraduates and new lecturers.

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Teachers Parents and Classroom Behaviour by Andy Miller

The behaviour of students in schools is a matter of great concern. Legislation, media coverage and 'test cases' are flooding into the public consciousness at an increasing pace. The relative responsibility of teachers and parents is a particularly prominent and contentious issue. 

 

 

This book examines the reasons why strong statements of mutual recrimination and blame often occur in this area, before looking at policies and practices which are co-operative, preventive and proactive in nature. 

 

 

But this is not solely another book of tips and techniques. In addition to describing strategies with a proven evidence base, it also demonstrates, within a coherent framework, how and why these approaches achieve their aims.

 

 

This book provides an in-depth understanding of key psychological factors for those in schools struggling in this vexed and pressing area and for that widening group of professionals charged with working in partnership to bring about demonstrable change.

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