25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them
25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

Author: Carolyn Orange

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 162914844X

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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.

44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes
44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes

Author: Carolyn Orange

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2004-12-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1483362698

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Based on the observations of more than 200 instructors, this hands-on text presents finely honed strategies to help teachers create an environment for better teaching and learning.

44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes
44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes

Author: Carolyn Orange

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2004-12-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1483360504

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Avoid classroom problems with this exciting new resource! When teachers experience problems in the classroom they reactively look for solutions. Often the solutions to the problems merely address obvious, apparent symptoms, overlooking the root causes of classroom problems. In 44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes, Orange provides insight into underlying causes of common classroom problems such as hurt feelings, power struggles, boring instruction, and low motivation. Rather than explain how to solve problems after they have occurred, Orange offers preventative, proactive strategies to help educators avoid the mistakes associated with classroom problems. This book is a theoretically sound, fresh approach to classroom success. Based on the observations of more than 200 instructors, this dynamic, hands-on text presents finely honed strategies for creating flexible lesson plans, maintaining enjoyable classrooms that run like well-oiled machines, tips for motivating students, managing paperwork effectively, and much more to help teachers create an environment that is conducive to better teaching and learning. 44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes includes: Practical methods to plan for foreseen and unforeseen classroom circumstances Tips to inspire and motivate your students Useful techniques for maximizing students′ strengths and minimizing their weaknesses Advice on how to project a professional image Steps for developing exciting, energetic instruction Featuring expert advice from state Teachers of the Year, enlightening vignettes, activities and observations, this terrific resource will help you create the best classroom possible.

How the Best Teachers Avoid the 20 Most Common Teaching Mistakes
How the Best Teachers Avoid the 20 Most Common Teaching Mistakes

Author: Elizabeth Breaux

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 131793041X

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For new teachers and veterans, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers, this book shows you how the best teachers avoid and correct the 20 most common teaching mistakes. Clear, direct, and passionate, this book provides tools to help you take charge of your classroom, yourself, your students' educations, and to become the best teacher you can possibly be!

Love, Teach
Love, Teach

Author: Kelly Treleaven

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0525533168

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Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach. Every teacher will tell you the first years are the hardest, and even the most confident of the pack sometimes ask themselves, Am I cut out for this? Kelly Treleaven, the teacher and once-anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach, wants you to know that you're not alone, and that yes, she has cried under her desk, too. Treleaven's blog has become a sensation in the education world, known for its heartfelt, high-spirited dispatches straight from the trenches and its practical advice. In Treleaven's debut book, she gives rookie teachers the advice she wishes she'd had when she started out in a large district in Houston. From logistical questions like how to prep and organize a classroom, to deeper issues like how to build relationships with students, navigate administration, and avoid burnout, Love, Teach is an essential book for anyone working in education today or considering the profession. With raw feeling, humor, and a razor-sharp perspective, Love, Teach supports teachers in their fight for a better future, and helps them celebrate the victories, large and small.

199 Mistakes New K - 6th Grade Teachers Make and How to Prevent Them
199 Mistakes New K - 6th Grade Teachers Make and How to Prevent Them

Author: Kimberly Sarmiento

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1601389663

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According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, nearly half of teachers leave the profession after five years. This doesn't have to include you — learn how to love your job and be great at it. This book focuses on dealing with elementary school age children. It covers how to keep the attention of students, what to expect at each age and grade level, how to effectively discipline, and how to create an effective atmosphere in the classroom.