Making a Difference in the Classroom
Strategies That Connect with Students- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
Summary
This book is about the energy, substance, hope, and determination that excellent teachers bring to the rhythm of classrooms every day, year in and year out. Balli offers experiences and important lessons about teaching and classroom life at all grade levels, illuminating the perspective of both teachers and students. Knitting teacher and student voices together, this book inspires practicing teachers and those who are learning to teach, with universal insights drawn from elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. Making a Difference in the Classroom is organized into three parts, focusing first on teacher-student relationships, then on how excellent teachers finesse the substance and action of classrooms, and finally on the inestimable worth of teachers as diverse individuals with unique talents to offer as gifts for students to unwrap and experience day after day.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-60709-034-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-60709-036-6
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 188
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Foreword No access
- Introduction No access
- Ch01. Respect No access
- Ch02. Encouragement No access
- Ch03. The Gift of Time No access
- Ch04. Teacher–Student Friendships No access
- Ch05. Classroom Ambience No access
- Ch06. Classroom Management No access
- Ch07. Learning Activities No access
- Ch08. High Expectations No access
- Ch09. Assessment No access
- Ch10. Teaching Styles No access
- Ch11. Teacher and Student Gender No access
- Ch12. Not Like Some Teachers No access
- Ch13. The Essence of Excellence No access
- References No access Pages 181 - 186
- About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188





