Joyful Teaching: Being the Teacher You Admired

Barry Raebeck

doi:10.5771/9781475867619

Summary

The book is both a call to action and a how-to guide to effective teaching. It is written in a readable, accessible style, yet it is supported by a wealth of knowledge and experience. The intended audience is aspiring and current secondary school teachers and administrators, curriculum directors, and college education professors, as well as lay people interested in practical progressive education. This book offers dozens of strategies and original ideas to enhance teaching all manner of students in all kinds of secondary schools.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6759-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6761-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 100
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Protect Your Turf No access
2. Technology No access
1. A Joyful First Day No access
2. Writing for the Sake of Writing No access
3. Students Getting Paid No access
1. Cooperative Learning No access
2. Effective Questioning No access
3. Teach to the Top No access
1. Teacher as Counselor No access
2. Vary Your Roles No access
3. Recommendations No access
1. Student Morale No access
2. Starting Class Calmly No access
3. Dominant Positives and Dominant Negatives No access
1. Comfortable Furniture No access
1. Props: The Golden Golf Club and the Steel Rod No access
2. Cautionary Note No access
3. Urns, Ashes, Internal Field Trips, Gumby, and Mother Superior No access
1. Overdoing It No access
2. Weighting Assignments No access
3. Changing Grades No access
4. Rubrics No access
5. Redos and Makeup Days No access
6. Grade Inflation No access
7. The National Honor Society No access
1. The Book Non-Report: TASK No access
2. The Book Non-Report: RUBRIC No access
3. Your Autobiography: TASK No access
4. The Autobiography: RUBRIC No access
5. Exemplary Research No access
6. The Short Story Unit No access
7. SHORT STORY: TASK No access
8. SHORT STORY: RUBRIC No access
1. Emails and Phone Messages No access
2. Open House No access
3. Parent Conferences No access
1. Dealing With the Boss No access
2. Other Teachers No access
Chapter 12: Coda: Joyful Teaching No access Pages 83 - 86
1. CODE OF CORRECTIONS No access
2. Tips for Improving Grades No access
3. Tips on Taking Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 93 - 94
Index No access Pages 95 - 98
About the Author No access Pages 99 - 100