Teaching from the deep end : succeeding with today's classroom challenges / Dominic Belmonte ; foreword by William Ayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belmonte, Dominic.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--United States.

Teaching.

United States.

Teachers--Training of--United States.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of.

Physical Description:

xiii, 121 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2003]

Summary:

Foreword by William Ayers

This excellent guide illustrates how the caring teacher can bring purpose, meaning, and spirit to classroom teaching and student success.

Contents:

The teaching profession: what are you doing and why are you doing it?

The classroom: where teacher's path and student's path converge

The teacher's words: you can heal and you can harm

The teaching persona: who you are when you're standing up there at the big desk

The paperwork can kill you

Your educational philosophy: creating your teaching tenets

Classroom ethics: 68 what-if's that will make any teacher say "yikes!"

Major stresses in the teaching profession: why you must remain a teacher

Reflective writing exercises for new and veteran teachers

Creating programs for teacher preparation: the programs of the Golden Apple Foundation in illinois.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index.

ISBN:

0761938494

OCLC:

51095624