A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning

Oran Tkatchov; Michele Pollnow

doi:10.5771/9781610480734

Summary

A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning contains a compilation of fifteen main ideas or concepts that will help teachers to become better at what they do to help learners reach their potential. Each concept is a common sense approach that is backed by research and provides an understanding of what a teacher should know and be able to do as an effective professional in their classroom. Ultimately, it is the teacher behaviors that have an impact on the student behaviors, and each chapter provides sound suggestions and tips to set the teaching and learning relationship up for success.

At the end of the chapters, there are Reflection Scenarios to assist the reader in thinking through possible issues and assist the reader in applying the concept to situations in their own practice. There are also guiding questions to stimulate personal reflection and may be helpful if using the book for a book study for professional learning community dialog and discussion.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-072-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-073-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 164
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Quality Classroom Leaders and Setting the Stage for a Successful School Year No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 What Are You Going to Teach Them? No access Pages 17 - 28
Chapter 3 High Expectations and Differentiation—The Closest Thing to a Silver Bullet No access Pages 29 - 36
Chapter 4 Assessing School and Classroom Climate No access Pages 37 - 46
Chapter 5 Student Mobility and Attendance No access Pages 47 - 52
Chapter 6 Time on Task and the Importance of Student Engagement No access Pages 53 - 70
Chapter 7 Understanding the Multiple Intelligences No access Pages 71 - 76
Chapter 8 Accessing Background Knowledge No access Pages 77 - 80
Chapter 9 Vocabulary: All Teachers Need to Teach It and Teach It Well No access Pages 81 - 88
Chapter 10 Did They Learn It? What Evidence Do You Have? No access Pages 89 - 114
Chapter 11 Struggling Students: What Is RTI, and What Does It Have to Do with My Teaching? No access Pages 115 - 118
Chapter 12 The Role of “Coaching” in Education and Why Teachers Need to be Open to It No access Pages 119 - 122
Chapter 13 Essentials in Writing—Another Thing Every Teacher Needs to Know How to Do No access Pages 123 - 126
Chapter 14 Professional Development for Teaching and Learning No access Pages 127 - 132
Chapter 15 How to Present Information to Your Peers No access Pages 133 - 136
Appendix A Important Vocabulary Teachers Need to Know No access Pages 137 - 140
Appendix B Templates No access Pages 141 - 148
Bibliography No access Pages 149 - 162
About the Authors No access Pages 163 - 164