Teaching From the Deep End
Succeeding With Today's Classroom Challenges
Second Edition
- Dominic Belmonte - Golden Apple Foundation, Chicago, IL
Foreword by Gregory Michie
Other Titles in:
Continuing Professional Development | Teacher Induction | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Continuing Professional Development | Teacher Induction | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
December 2009 | 168 pages | Corwin
Beginning and veteran teachers alike can dive into the deep end of todayÆs classroom challenges with this handy and entertaining guide.áCombining theory and anecdotes,áthis updated edition of the bestseller highlights more insightful principles for educators. The second edition of Teaching From the Deep End encourages teachers to think about their profession and teaching persona andáto think about school politics, ethics, and a host of other issues. The author invitesáyouáto enter the classroom with a passion formed by knowing what you want to accomplish, seeing those around you in order to begin properly, planning to bring your students to knowledge and understanding, and anticipating challenges to that plan. New in this edition are: Tips on the job searchWorking with colleagues and parentsSuggestions for navigating school politicsáWays to surviveáa culture of testmania
Foreword to the Second Edition by Gregory Michie
Preface
About the Author
Part One: Getting There
1. The Teaching Profession: What Are You Doing and Why Are You Doing It?
2. Perception During the Job Search
3. Your Educational Philosophy: Creating Your Teaching Tenets
4. Reflective Writing Exercises for New and Veteran Teachers
5. Remember the Paul Potts Principle: It Is So (If You Think So)
Part Two: Being There
6. The Classroom: Where the Teacher's Path and the Student's Path Converge
7. The Teacher's Words: You Can Heal and You Can Harm
8. The Teaching Persona: Who You Are When You're Standing up There at the Big Desk
9. Working With Colleagues: Being a Team Player
10. Dealing With School Hierarchy and Politics
11. Don't Make Things Worse: Avoiding Deficit Views of Children
12. A Pep Talk About Parents
13. Seven Yin-Yang Blunders to Avoid
Part Three: Staying There
14. Classroom Ethics: 68 What-If's That Will Make Any Teacher Say "Yikes!"
15. Major Stresses in the Teaching Profession: Why You Must Remain a Teacher
16. The Paperwork Can Kill You
17. Living in Testmania
Part Four: Bringing Others There
18. Creating Programs for Teacher Preparation: The Programs of the Golden Apple Foundation in Illinois
Epilogue: Group Hug
References
Index