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 book will 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: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781475847062
• ISBN-10: 1475847068
• Artikelnr.: 53685436

Autorenporträt

Dale Ripley has over 35 years of teaching experience working with students in elementary, junior high-middle school and high school, in schools in the inner city, the suburbs and on a First Nations reserve. While Dr. Ripley has been the principal of several schools and served two school districts as their superintendent, the classroom was - and still is - his favorite place to be.

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.Whös 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
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 Yoüre 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, Yoüre 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