| Description |
1 online resource (121 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- What This Book is and is Not -- A Word about Schools -- And a Word about Teachers -- Reviewer Acknowledgment -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: What Makes a Skillful, Caring Teacher? -- Great Teaching is Still Great Teaching (And it's the Teaching That Matters Most!) -- Is Highly Qualified the Same as High Quality? -- "But We Hardly Have the Time!" -- Axiom: Good Teaching is Not about Quantity but Quality -- First Self-Assessment: What can be Tossed and What Must be Kept -- Instructions -- Interpretation -- The Complete Teacher: Knowledge, Skills, and Qualities -- Key Teacher Skills and Qualities -- Chapter 2 -- Key Teacher Skills: What Teachers Do -- Key Teacher Skills, Prior to Teaching -- Skill #1: Preparation -- Sample Yearly Plan Format -- Sample Unit Plan Format -- Sample Lesson Plan Format -- Planning for Student Success -- Key Teacher Skills, While Teaching -- Skill #2: Attention -- Skill #3: Clarity -- Skill #4: Questioning -- Skill #5: Monitoring -- Skill #6: Feedback -- Skill #7: Summarizing -- Key Teacher Skills, after Teaching -- Skill #8: Reflection -- Planning Teaching Reflection -- then the cycle repeats: Planning Teaching Reflection -- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Skills Self-Assessment -- Skills Checklist: Skills Indicators -- Chapter 3 -- Key Teacher Qualities: How Teachers are -- Key Teacher Quality #1-Efficacy -- What Factors are Connected to Teacher Efficacy? -- How Teachers Influence Student Success: Three Paths and One Dead End -- Enthusiasm: The Great-Teacher Feature -- How can Teachers become Stronger in Efficacy? A Do's and Don'ts List -- Key Teacher Quality #2-Caring -- Teacher-Student Caring -- Classrooms as a Community of Mind -- Classroom and School Ownership: A Special Type of Caring -- Caring Means Parents, Too: Parental Involvement and Support |
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How can Teachers Become Stronger in Caring? A Do's and Don'ts List -- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Qualities Self-Assessment -- Qualities Checklist: Efficacy Indicators -- Qualities Checklist: Caring Indicators -- Chapter 4 -- Summary and Conclusion: Beyond Great to Memorable -- Summary of Skills and Qualities Checklists -- Plans of Action -- Basic Plan of Action -- Alternate Plans of Action -- Follow-up Assessment -- Conclusion -- Improving More Than Yourself -- Resources: Guidelines for Student Success in Academics and Socialization: A Schoolwide Qualitative Assessment -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
<Strong> </strong> Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great educators and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Teaching.
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Teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780761988311 |
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0761988319 |
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