Risk Teaching: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom - Softcover

Beidler, Peter G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603811060 ISBN 13: 9781603811064

Publisher: Coffeetown Press, 2011

Synopsis

Must we always teach from the inside of a classroom? Do periodic exams encourage learning as well as daily quizzes do? Do you schedule individual conferences with each student at the start of the term? Is lecturing an effective way to teach? If a student falls in love with you--or vice versa--are you doing something right or something wrong? If you have a pedagogical idea that will probably fail, should you try it anyhow? How do we know when it is time to retire from a profession we love? Such questions may make readers uncomfortable, but they may also lead them to change the way they think about the profession. Teachers may reconsider their methods, causing students to reconsider their attitudes. In choosing the title Risk Teaching, Peter G. Beidler hopes to convey multiple meanings of the word "risk." "Risk" the verb, as in "take a chance on an amazing profession." "Risk" the adjective, as in "risky"--teaching that diverges from the safe and traditional path. "Risk" the noun, as in "teach students to take risks" and learn outside their comfort zones. Beidler's book, like his teaching, is saucy, innovative, and challenging.

About this title

About the Author:

PETER G. BEIDLER recently retired from Lehigh University as the Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of English. ­Widely published in both British and American ­literature, he has won a number of ­teaching awards. In 1981 he was named National Professor of the Year by the Council on ­Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coffeetown Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1603811060
• ISBN 13: 9781603811064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250