Never work harder than your students & other principles of great teaching / Robyn R. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Robyn Renee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Effective teaching.

Teacher effectiveness.

Physical Description:

xvii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Never work harder than your students and other principles of great teaching

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, [2009]

Summary:

Is great teaching a gift that only a few of us are born with, or is it a skill that can be learned?

In Never Work Harder Than Your Students, Robyn Jackson makes a radical assertion: Any teacher can become a master teacher by developing a master teacher mindset, The master teacher mindset can be achieved by rigorously applying seven principles to your teaching until they become your automatic response to students in the classroom. The more you practice these principles, the more you begin to think like a master teacher. The seven principles are

1. Start where your students are.

2. Know where your students are going.

3. Expect to get your students to their goal.

4. Support your students along the way.

5. Use feedback to help you and your students get better.

6. Focus on quality rather than quantity.

7. Never work harder than your students.

Using these seven principles, Jackson shows you how to become a master teacher no matter where you are in your practices. Each chapter provides a detailed explanation of one of the mastery principles, the steps you need to take to apply them to your own practice, and suggestions for how you can begin practicing the principle in your classroom right away. Jackson offers stories from her own teaching practice as well as from other teachers she has helped to show you how each principle works. Teaching is a hard job, but using Jackson’s principles will help you and your students reap the rich rewards of that hard work.

Contents:

Start where your students are

Know where your students are going

Expect to get your students there

Support your students

Use effective feedback

Focus on quality, not quantity

Never work harder than your students

Putting it all together tools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781416607571

1416607579

OCLC:

244701506