The Teacher's Guide to Success: Teaching Effectively in Today's Classrooms - Softcover

Kronowitz, Ellen L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205456197 ISBN 13: 9780205456192

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2007

Synopsis

How do successful teachers become successful? What skills do they have and which resources do they use? Dr. Ellen Kronowitz explores the keys to successful teaching and offers a realistic view of today’s classrooms and presents a very practical approach to preparing to teach. Pre-service and in-service teachers alike are provided tried and true experienced-based suggestions and research-based strategies and solutions to meet classroom challenges. Organized by 8 topical units that address common, overriding concerns in the classroom, teachers are taken from the first day to the end of the school year. Each of the brief chapters within each unit simplifies the complex challenges teachers face including: having a successful first day, organizing the classroom with proven routines and procedures, disciplining students in a respectful and positive manner, mapping out a differentiated curriculum, teaching wi

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From the Back Cover:

 

A blueprint for effective teaching, brimming with thoughtful and realistic advice, The Teacher’s Guide to Success provides a practical approach to teaching through tried and true experience-based suggestions and research-based strategies. 

 

Organized into eight topical units that address the everyday needs, concerns, and realities of today’s educators, teachers are guided from the very first day to the end of the school year.  From organizing the physical classroom to mapping out a differentiated curriculum, the challenges of teaching are identified and streamlined.  The companion website is packed with engaging examples from real live classrooms, advice from leading authorities in education, and helpful additional resources for your first year teaching.  A resource you will never want to leave at home, this book reveals the ins and outs of teaching effectively in today’s classrooms.

 

Why you’ll love using The Teacher’s Guide to Success!  

• With an authority gleaned from her years of classroom teaching experience and working with future teachers at California State University, San Bernardino, Dr. Kronowitz writes in a style that leaves all teachers feeling as though she is in the classroom with them. 
• Checklists summarize key points and provide beginning and experienced teachers with a ready-made list of reminders that will help make their teaching days efficient and effective.
• “Teacher Talks...” and “Student Says...” features illuminate the content with anecdotes or guidance from current teachers and student perspectives throughout.
• “Classroom Artifacts” features provide sample lessons that incorporate concepts and techniques presented in the book.
• “Apply It!” features encourage readers to apply and adapt concepts and strategies to their own situations.
• “Myth Buster!” features take common perceptions and misconceptions about teaching, and explore their realities.
• A robust Companion Website introduces the reader to the author and her philosophy of education, and provides teachers with over 60 video clips and additional resources that will assist them in the classroom and with their professional development.

 

 

“The key strengths of this project are its comprehensiveness and the integration of ideas borne from research into ideas about practice.  I found this book to be a very thorough introduction to the entire first year of teaching and beyond...”

--Kristal Curry, Indiana University: Bloomington

 

“The author’s experience and knowledge comes through on every page.”

--Denise M. Rea, Fresno Pacific University

About the Author:

Ellen Kronowitz has been a professor at California State University since 1978 where she co-founded the university demonstration school and worked with student teachers and interns and taught courses in curriculum and social studies methods. She was granted Emeritus status in June 2004. Ellen has authored Your First Year of Teaching and Beyond, now in its 4th edition, poetry and social studies resource books for teachers, and early literacy book as part of a series. She also enjoys horseback riding and skiing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0205456197
• ISBN 13: 9780205456192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352