Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students. Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, energized with The Skillful Teacher, a practical guide to effective techniques, approaches, and methods for today's college classrooms. Providing insights, reflections, and advice from his four decades of college teaching, Stephen Brookfield now adapts his successful methods to teaching online, working with diverse student populations, and making classrooms truly inclusive. As well as being completely revised, updated, and rewritten, this edition adds six brand new chapters on: Teaching critical thinking Using play and creativity in the classroom Teaching in teams Helping students take responsibility for learning Teaching about racism Exercising teacher power responsibly Readers will delve into what learning feels like from a student's perspective, as well as absorb the wisdom of veteran college faculty with whom the author has worked. Themes from the bestselling previous editions remain, but are revisited and expanded with the perspective of an additional decade in the classroom. This authoritative guide is now even more comprehensive to better serve teachers looking to improve. Whether you are new to the classroom or are looking to rise to new challenges, The Skillful Teacher will provide answers, expand your repertoire of techniques, and invigorate your teaching and your classrooms.
This book has become a standard text in many teaching courses. Designed for both the novice & the seasoned veteran, THE SKILLFUL TEACHER assists practitioners in broadening their teaching skills....
In drill-down detail, Saphier provides an instructional playbook for increasing student confidence and agency in the daily flow of classroom life: Powerful strategies for attribution retraining, organized around 50 Ways to Get Students to ...
What distinguishes the skillful team leader from a less effective one is his or her approach in overcoming them. MacDonald offers a skillful approach to team leadership rooted in values, mindset, intelligence, and skill.
Filled with practical tools and expert insight, this volume helps facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.
Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested toolkit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers.
Here is a compelling read for every teacher in higher education who wants to refresh or reexamine his or her classroom practice.Building on the insights offered by recent discoveries about the biological basis of learning, and on his own ...
The Teacher's Book Pack contains the print Teacher's Book and an access code to the Teacher's Resource Center and the Digital Student's Book.
Learner-Centered Teaching also offers well researched advice for educators who want to transition to a learner-centered approach in their classrooms and Identifies the steps to take to put into place learner-centered policies and practices ...
A Teacher's Guide to Inclusive and Culturally Competent Classrooms (Create an equitable instruction classroom culture ... In Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom, educator Tom Hierck (2017) writes about the ...
The Skillful Teacher's Handbook: Effectively Teaching Regular and Special Education Students