Being a Successful Teacher: A Practical Guide to Instruction and Management (Paperback)
Being a Successful Teacher: A Practical Guide to Instruction and Management (Paperback)
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GOOD: The book's spine, covers, and pages are in good condition, showing the usual minimal signs of use and wear. The pages are clean and copy-ready. The only page that had any writing on it was the title page, done in pencil and easily erased.NOTE: This book was previously published under the title The Beginning Teacher's Resource Book.
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There are several "student reproducibles" in this book and the publisher has given the purchaser permission to copy these pages for classroom use. This book is full of such reproducibles.From the back cover: "Whether you're at the start of your career or at the end of your rope, Being a Successful Teacher offers you practical guidelines for organizing and managing your classroom.
"This book provides valuable information and suggestions to help you:
- plan your lessons and plan for substitutes
- improve organization and time-management skills
- establish and achieve professional goals
- handle and solve problems in the classroom
- help students develop cognitive and social skills
- encourage student responsibility
- design instructional materials
- create a lively, student-oriented classroom
CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Unit I: Getting Off on the Right Foot
- Planning the First Day
- Being Part of the School Community
- Working with Parents
- Planning for the Substitute
- Personal Goals and Growth
- Unit II: Getting Ready to Teach
- Content Sources
- Content Organization and Analysis
- Objectives
- Diagnosis
- Paper Grading and Record Keeping
- Unit III: Getting to Know Your Students
- Interest Inventories
- Anecdotal Records
- Learning Styles Inventory
- Time-on-Task Studies
- Sociograms
- Unit IV: Behavior Management
- Problem-Solving Strategies
- Encouraging Student Responsibility
- Reinforcing Positive Behavior
- Contingency Management
- Student Behavior and Consequences
- Using Support Staff
- Weekly Progress Reports
- Unit V: Instructional Management
- Routine Management
- Whole-Group and Small-Group Management
- Integrated Small-Group Activities
- Prescriptive Instruction
- Skill Groups and Individual Conferences
- Learning Centers
- Self-Selection Activities
- Work Contracts
- Unit VI: Instructional Interaction
- Questioning
- Values Activities
- Field Trips and Guest Speakers
- Combined-Class Activities
- Peer Helping and Tutoring
- Unit VII: Instructional Environment and Materials
- Classroom Environment
- Interactive Displays
- Homework
- Developing Instructional Materials
- Bibliography
NOTE: Although this book is designed for the traditional classroom teacher, several units' materials are applicable to homeschooling parents. The Learning Styles Inventory on page 105, for example, is a great place to start when beginning to design lesson plans and the learning environment.
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PUBLISHER: Fearon Teacher Aids
ISBN-13: 9780822467915
ISBN-10: 0822467917