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Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches!
All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.
25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author's prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:
• Discipline
• Teacher-student relations
• Classroom policy and practices
• Classroom management and instruction
• Personality and professionalism
• Teaching style and behavior
Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this book’s real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.
All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.
25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author's prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:
• Discipline
• Teacher-student relations
• Classroom policy and practices
• Classroom management and instruction
• Personality and professionalism
• Teaching style and behavior
Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this book’s real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781629146874 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Skyhorse |
| Publication date: | 11/18/2014 |
| Edition description: | Reissue |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Carolyn Orange, PhD, has worked as an educator for around 25 years. Now, she is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
Table of Contents
Foreword Anita Woolfolk Hoy xi
Preface to the Second Editon xii
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Author xv
Introduction 1
Discipline 7
Inappropriate Discipline Strategies 9
Actions Scream Louder Than Words 9
Clean in Thought, Word, and "Backtalk" 10
Nose, Toes, Anything Goes 11
Sticky Business 12
Nosing Around in the Corner 12
Sneaking a Peek 13
Water Sprites Strike 14
Give a Hand, Get a Hand 14
Knuckle Whackers 15
The Lineup 16
Attila the Nun 16
Injustice and Punishment for All 17
Dubious Misdeeds 17
Pay Attention!!! 18
Cheating Expose 19
Biting in Self-Defense 20
No Apology Needed 20
No Explanations, Please 21
Whodunit? 21
Sitting Ducks 22
Boys Will Be Boys 23
Copious Copying 24
Assault With a Deadly Playground 24
PunishmentBefitting the Crime 25
Old Betsy and What's Her Name 26
Physical Aggression 27
Punishment or Perversion? 27
Pit Bully 28
Putting the Squeeze On 28
The Hair-Raiser 29
Perils of Paddling 30
Go for It 30
Handle With Care 31
Pupil Plucking 32
Sweet Smile of Sorrow 32
Purposeful Alienation 34
Scapegoat Scandal 34
Public Ridicule 35
Confession [not equal] Contrition 35
Don't Bother to Raise Your Hand 36
Adding Insult to an Unjust Injury 36
Saving a Red Face 37
Old School-1899 or New School-1999? 38
If you Muse, You Lose 38
To Laugh or Not to Laugh, That Is the Question 39
Teacher-Student Relations 41
Favoritism 43
Snob Appeal 43
Sugar, Spice, and Very Smart 44
Teacher's Pet 45
Physiological Discrimination 47
The Antifat Motive 47
Writing Well at Any Cost 48
Blurred-Eye View 49
Discrimination by Isolated Exits 49
Baby and the Beast 50
Stuff and Nonsense 51
Personal Attacks 53
Derailment on the College Track 53
Risque Rumor 54
Job's Comforter 54
Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Worst Student of All? 55
Inappropriate Teacher-Student Relationships 57
My Teacher, My Friend? 57
A Wolf in Teacher's Clothing 58
Deliberate Mistreatment 60
A Holy Terror 60
It's Snowing Down South 61
sins of Big Sister Visited on Little Sister 62
Racial and Cultural Discrimination 63
Cross-Cultural Confusion 63
Cinderella in the Classroom 64
English-Only Spoken Here 65
The Transparent Mask of Prejudice 66
Separate and Unequal Treatment 67
Lesson in Oppression 68
Culture Clash 69
Humiliation 71
Chalkboard Etiquette 71
Be Still and the Shame Will Settle 72
Shake, Baby, Shake 73
Girls Will Be Girls 74
Tomato or Tomato? Pecan or Pecan? 75
Classroom Policies and Practices 77
Inappropriate Classroom Policies 79
New Kid on the School Block 79
Banished to the Underworld 80
It's Now or Never 80
One for You and One for You and None for You 81
Sour Note Switch 82
Broken Bones: Give the Student a Break 83
The Shaming of the Crew 84
Last Picks 85
Speak First, Think Later 85
The Perils and Pearls of Mandatory Attendance 86
Sounding Off 87
"Loser of the Week": A Real Loser 87
Only "Smart" Questions, Please 88
Help Wanted 89
Off on a Tangent 89
Worksheet Workout 90
Let Your Fingers Do the Reading 91
Rigid Mortis 91
Almost Perfect Attendance 92
Inappropriate Toileting Practices 94
You're All Wet 94
Wait, Wait... Too Late 97
Right of Privacy: None of Your Business 98
Pass the Pass Pronto 99
Toilet Tyrant 100
Classroom Management and Instruction 103
Inappropriate Educational Strategies 105
Gifted: One Who Walks on Water 105
I Don't Know, I'm Just the Teacher 106
Get Thee to the Second Grade! 106
Standing the Test of Time 107
Math Mania 108
No Play, You Pay 109
Prime Time 109
Once More, With Feeling 110
Teacher, Can You Spare a Sign? 110
Wait a Minute ... or Two or Three 111
No Excuses.... EVER! 111
Competition Isn't Always Good 113
Keep Working, Rain, Shine, Sleet, or Divorce 113
I'm Writing as Fast as I Can 114
Reading Reticence: To Read or Not to Read 115
No Make-Up; I'll Take a Powder 115
Can't You See That I Can't See? 116
Small but Mighty 117
Anything Worth Doing Is Not Worth Doing Well 117
Ready, Willing, and Able 118
Talk, Talk, Talk 119
Here an "F", There an "F," Everywhere an "F," "F" 119
Academic "Payday" 120
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, and Again, and Again 121
Inappropriate Assessment 122
Test Error: Demotion to Promotion 122
"I": Feedback or Folly? 122
I Am Not My Brother's Keeper 123
Caustic Critique 124
Being Taught Red-Handed 125
Group Consequences: All or Nothing 126
Inflexible, Indifferent, Illogical, and Inaccurate 126
Tragedy on the Classroom Stage 127
Personality and Professionalism 129
Teacher Insensitivity 131
Seeing Red 131
And the "Winner" Is 132
Name Sweet Name 133
Exit Front and Center Stage 133
Eye to Swollen Eye 134
Diagnosis: Faking 135
When the Bough Cracks 135
The Bereaved Must Leave 136
Children Must Be Seen and Heard 137
Stripped of Protective Coating 137
Turning a Deaf Ear to Bullyragging 138
Academic Shortcomings 141
Shame and Punishment 141
Ducking the Stoning Incident 142
A Know-a-Little and a Know-It-All 143
Academic Inquisition 144
Jumping to a Gender-Biased Conclusion 144
Tread Lightly, but Do Tread 145
All Talk and No Teaching 147
Don't Know Fall From Autumn 148
Teaching Solo Students Can't Hear You 148
The Incarceration of Originality 149
Poor Administration 150
Duped Dancers 150
Teacher Reputation 152
Fearsome Reputations Often Precede People 152
Teacher Misjudgment 154
Shrinking Violet or Conceited Prima Donna? 154
Damsel in Distress? 155
Trust Me at Your Own Risk 156
The Whole Is Greater Than Its Parts 157
Excluded! 157
To Err Is Human, to Admit It Is Divine 158
It's Gobbledygook to Me 159
Your Crime, My Time 159
Teaching Style and Behavior 161
Teacher Bias or Expectations 163
Once a Clown, Always a Clown 163
Dark Comedy of Gender Bias 164
Justice for All 164
Extraterrestrial Terror 165
Liar, Liar, Your Habit's on Fire 166
Cheater Watch 167
Unethical Behavior 168
Keep Hope Alive 168
Out in the Cold 169
Bloody Secret 170
A Lesson in Deception 171
Sneaky Snacking 172
Teacher Goes AWOL 172
Sleepy Slacker 173
False Accusations 175
Do Send a Girl to Do a Man's Work 175
Arbitrary Scapegoats 176
Inappropriate Reactions 178
Volunteer or Else! 178
Silence Is Not Always Golden 179
Abandoning the Band 180
Oops! Too Bad for You 181
The Smoke Detector 181
What's My Name? 182
Copycat? 183
Sexual Harassment 184
Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours 184
Let the Student Beware 185
Biting Remarks Beget Big Bucks 186
Bottoms Up 186
Chest Nut Roasts Student 187
Teacher Confessions of Worst Treatment of a Child: Their Motives and Feelings 189
Why Good Teachers Mistreat Students: Their Motives and Feelings 191
Underlying Causes and Reasons That Some Teachers Mistreat Students 241
The Triggers or Emotional Catalysts for Aberrant Teacher Behavior 243
Hidden Hazards: Negative Outcomes of Student Mistreatment 246
How to Avoid Making the 25 Biggest Mistakes 249
Further Thoughts on Avoiding Mistakes 251
Epilogue 254
References 255
Index 260
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