Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains

Bring a fresh perspective to your classroom Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brain, Third Edition integrates practical strategies and engaging advice for new and experienced teachers. Whether you are preparing for your first year of teaching or have been working in the classroom for decades, this conversational book provides you with answers to the essential questions that you face as an educator how to engage students, encourage self–directed learning, differentiate instruction, and create dynamic lessons that nurture critical thinking and strategic problem solving. This updated edition includes expanded material that touches on Project–Based Learning, brain–based teaching, creating smooth transitions, integrating Common Core into the classroom, and other key subject areas. Questions for reflection at the end of each chapter help you leverage this resource in book groups, professional development courses, and in both undergraduate and graduate classes. The art of teaching is one that evolves with changing educational standards and best practices; to be the most effective teacher possible, daily self–reflection is critical, along with a need to see things from a different perspective. This means we must step outside the box moving our focus from ?fixing? the students when a problem arises to helping a teacher improve his or her practice. Improve classroom management, discipline, motivation, and morale Explore strategies for arranging your classroom, engaging students, and avoiding the misbehavior cycle Create an environment where students learn and teachers teach Leverage insight from teachers and students Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brain, Third Edition is an essential resource for teachers at any stage in their careers. INDICE: Acknowledgments .The Author .Introduction .Chapter 1 Dear Teacher: An Open Letter .Chapter 2 Are You Teacher Material? .Super, Excellent, or Good? .Earn Some Extra Credit .Those Who Can t Teach Can Still Do .What Is Teaching All About? .Chapter 3 Do Your Homework .Choose Your Persona .Dress the Part .Train Your Little Darlings .Control Your Classroom, Not Your Students .Plan for Bathroom Breaks .Your Optional Agenda .Face Your Own Prejudices .Respect Yourself .The Gang Thang .Grades: Percentage? Curve? Coin Toss? .Catch the Cheaters Or Not? .Covering Curriculum Is Not Teaching .School Is an Emotional Experience .There is No Such Thing as a Casual Remark to a Child .Chapter 4 The Big Three: Preparation, Preparation, Preparation .Prepare Your Room .Prepare Your Paperwork .Prepare Yourself .Chapter 5 Start With a Smile .Don t Keep Your Distance .Choose an Engaging Opener .Provide Clear Instructions .Grab Your Students by Their Brains .No More Teacher Versus Student .Teach Your Procedure for Oral Responses .Be Prepared for Test the Teacher .Create a Daily Do Now Activity .Introduce Students to Each Other .Establish Routines and Rituals .Take Time to Think .Do Some Diagnostics .Welcome Handouts and Folders .Delegate Some Authority .Review Maslow s Hierarchy .Introduce Metacognition .Show Your Gratitude .The Hard Part Is Over We Hope .Chapter 6 Discipline Is Not a Dirty Word .Define Your Philosophy .Punitive or Positive .Cowboy Philosophy .Rules Versus Procedures .Rules for Creating Rules .Electronic Intervention .ID Your Bullies and Outcasts .Characteristics of Successful Discipline Policies .Twelve Steps to Better Discipline .If You Have to Have Detention, Make It Worthwhile .Keep Records .Consult the Experts, Trust Your Instincts .Emergency Meltdown Plan .Chapter 7 The Three Rs: Reading, Reading, Reading .What s the Problem? .What s the Solution? .One Teacher s Experience .Use Music to Introduce Poetry .Shakespeare for Everyone .What About Eager Readers? .And Now for Something Completely Different .Chapter 8 Light and Learning .Light and Reading Linked .Better Grades and Fewer Cavities! .Sunnier Classes = Higher Test Scores .A Room With a View Improves Grades .The View From My Room .Scoop on Scotopic Sensitivity .Signs of Light Sensitivity .Feedback From Future Teachers .Pass the Word .Scientific Support .Chapter 9 Motivation and Persuasion .Group 1: A Little Basic Moto .Group 2: Powerful Persuasion Required .Chapter 10 Foods for Thought .A Few Appetizers .The Big, Fat Problem .Mother s Milk Versus Formula .Doctor s Orders .Other Major Nutritional Villains .We Need to Use Our Noodles .Chapter 11 Teacher Talk .Questions and Answers .Chapter 12 Now the Good News .Positive Thinking for Teachers .Twenty Years From Now .The Flip Side .The Posse Update .A Personal Movie Review .Appendix .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-119-08927-8
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 06/10/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés