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

Orange, Carolyn M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412937876 ISBN 13: 9781412937870

Publisher: Corwin, 2006

Synopsis

This updated edition of the bestseller helps teachers become more sensitive educators by recognizing teaching mistakes and discovering better ways to address challenging and stressful situations.

About this title

From the Author:

This book will help educators gain valuable insight into how to be a more sensitive and effective teacher by analyzing the mistakes of others. All teachers make mistakes - use of uninformed strategies, impulsive acts, unconventional discipline tactics, inadvertent slights, remarks in jest, and more - and often they're unaware of the impact and long-term effects of their words and actions. Teachers may do and say things that traumatize students, leaving them psychologically scarred from childhood on into adulthood.

Learn how to avoid the most prevalent and hurtful mistakes so that so that students can be more successful learners. The book features over 300 scenarios from teachers recounting their worst experiences as students. In 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, she presents brief scenarios in the former students' own words and follows each with an Rx -a prescription for a better solution. These recommendations are based on the author's many years of teaching and sound educational theory.

The result: an important teaching tool for professional and staff development workshops, for pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, administrators, counselors and all others concerned with effective teaching.

The scenarios are organized into six sections: - Discipline - Teacher-Student Relations - Classroom Policy and Practices - Classroom Management and Instruction - Personality and Professionalism - Teaching Style and Behavior

The solutions and recommendations provide teachers with a map to successfully navigate the academic terrain. Whether used for professional or staff development workshops or as a tool for individual teachers, this book offers alternative strategies that will help create better teachers. This book is appropriate for anyone who works with children and may be of interest to anyone who has ever sat in a classroom.

About the Author:

Carolyn Orange is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches Psychological Basis of Learning, Learning and Development of the School Age Child, Human Growth and Development, and Psychology of Human Motivation. She has a PhD and Master of Arts degree in Educational Psycho logy from Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harris Stowe State College. She began her teaching career in the St. Louis Public Schools where she taught for a number of years. Her work as an educator has spanned about 25 years. That period includes some time that she worked for two corporations. She has worked as a researcher and educator in a variety of educational settings: elementary, secondary, English as a Second Language (ESL), Montessori, special education, adult education, art, and higher education. She has produced a video on self-regulation and has developed a Self-Regulation Inventory. She has published numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The Journal of Experimental Education, The Roeper Review, Journal of Communi­cations and Minority Issues, The Journal of Black Studies, The NASSP: Curriculum Report, and The High School Journal. In 2001, she was appointed to the review board of the Journal of Communications and Minority Issues. She is on the Board of Directors for the Girl Scout Council of San Antonio. She was included in Who’s Who in the World for 2005; Who’s Who Among American Teachers for 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003; Who’s Who in America 2001, 2002, and 2003/2004. Her current research interests are envirosocial factors that affect student achievement. She is the author of 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them (2000) and Quick Reference Guide to Educational Innovations: xiv FM-Orange.qxd 11/12/2004 4:21 PM Page xv About the Author xv Practices, Programs, Policies and Philosophies (2002). 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them is a bestseller and has gained worldwide popularity. It has been reviewed in India and translated into Thai, Chinese, and Slovenian. She was inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412937876
• ISBN 13: 9781412937870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288