Frank Thoms

Exciting Classrooms (eBook, ePUB)

Practical Information to Ensure Student Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting Classrooms is sensitive to the challenges schools face and is relentless in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Schools must do better. Rather than focus on improving test scores, this book advocates that teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not only to one note. If students only learn to succeed on bubble tests, they will not have opportunities to discover their true potential. Thoms sees the teaching process as a joint venture between teacher and student where the teacher brings learning to the student and, at the same time, brings the student to the learning. This process demands at least as much listening as talking, a new habit that teachers and principals need to learn.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475823042
• Artikelnr.: 44909442

Autorenporträt

Frank Thoms was a devoted middle school teacher. His devotion for his students and fellow teachers comes alive in his writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Meet Dan Hilliard
Introduction
I: What Can We Do Immediately?
1 Implement 10-2 Thinking
2 Instill Skills
3 Teach Literacy
4 Design Invitations
5 Make Meaning
II: How Can We Expand Our Teaching Practice?
6 See the Big Picture
7 Search for Wisdom
8 Stay Current
9 Seek the Higher Road
III: What Must We Change?
10 Abolish Tracking
11 Abandon the Crabs in the Cage
12 Stop the Interruptions
13 End One-Size-Fits-All Teaching
IV: What Can We Learn from Beyond the Culture of Schools?
14 Become a Gadfly
15 Leverage Tipping Points
16 Teach As If
17 Take the Long View
18 Imagine the Ideal
19 Invoke the Cosmos
V: How Do We Find Our Calling?
20 Grow Our Seeds
21 Rethink Our Philosophy
22 Achieve Our Dreams
23 Become Stakeholders
24 Begin at the End
CODA: Make a Difference
EPILOGUE: Hidden Expectations
APPENDIX: Teaching Manifesto
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author