Selma Wassermann

Mastering the Art of Teaching (eBook, PDF)

Meeting the Challenges of the Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Faceted Tasks of Today's Classrooms

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The complexity of what teachers do is incomprehensible to anyone who has not lived the experience. If one examines, in detail, the multi-dimensional, multi-layered, multi-faceted acts that a teacher performs each teaching day, it almost defies belief for it is beyond heroic. Done well, the impact is to influence students for all the days of their lives. Done well, it leaves students altered for the better. It takes a trained observer to perceive and comprehend the various acts, both overt and subtle, that a teacher carries out during the course of a school day. This is the onus of this book - to make explicit the professional tasks of a teacher in today's fast changing world, where technology is rapidly replacing human interactions, where disinformation is daily fed to a gullible public, where funding and professional resources for schools are never enough, where students come to school carrying physical and emotional burdens that would daunt most adults, where the tasks of teachers are more demanding and more heartbreaking than ever before. How a teacher gives his or her all, and yet, manages to keep at the job without burning out is a significant feature of this book. Not only are these professional tasks identified and explained, but suggestions are offered for how new and practicing teachers may further hone those skills that each task demands. Knowing the tasks is not enough; learning to apply them successfully is the key to becoming that master teacher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765175439
• Artikelnr.: 74844038

Autorenporträt

Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Author of more than 30 books, she is the recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Scenes from a Classroom
The Teacher as Decision Maker
Beginnings: Some Advice for New Teachers
What's Wrong with Teacher Education?
Some Advice for "Noo Teechrs"
Last Words
The Professional Tasks of the Teacher
The Development of an Assessment Instrument to Evaluate Teaching Competence
Profiles of Teaching Competency
Categories of Teaching Competency
Teacher as Person
Growing Teachers
Being Clear About What's Important
Sharpening Your Problem-Solving Skills
The Importance of Being Real
Developing Confidence in Self
Taking Care of Yourself
Conclusion
The Teacher and The Kids
Teacher as Diagnostician
Identifying Students Showing Extreme Emotional Needs
Teaching Strategies for Dealing with Emotional Needs
Identifying Behavior that Relates to Lack of Experience with Thinking
Teaching Strategies for Dealing with Lack of Experience with Thinking
Other Behavior Impediments to Learning
Conclusion
Teacher-Student Interactions
It Starts with Listening, Attending and Apprehending
Choosing the Right Response
Basic Reflective Responses
Responses that Call for Analysis of Ideas
Responses that Challenge
Responses that Address Students' Expression of Feelings
Mastering the Art of Teacher-Student Interactions
Conclusion
The Teacher and the Curriculum
IT and the Curriculum
A Few Examples of Existing School Programs Incorporating IT
What Can a Teacher Do?
Putting the Teaching for Thinking Curriculum Framework into Practice
Why Do These Students Love School?
Evaluation as a Tool for Improving Learning
Creating More Effective Assessment Tools
Diagnosing Students' Difficulties
Giving Evaluative Feedback
Students' Self-Evaluations
Reporting to Parents
Conclusion
Teaching as a Courageous Activity
The Closed Classroom Door
Teachers Who Dared
What's the Pay Off?
Endpaper: In Retrospect
A Personal Journey
Appendix: Profiles of Teaching Competency
References
Index
About the Author