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Being a good teacher is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these soft skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline and offering pastoral support to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance. This essential guide promises to help teachers gain the respect of their pupils, manage potential confrontations, and ultimately get the best out of both their careers and their students.
Teaching Skills For Dummies includes: Developing Your Teaching Style Building Your Teaching Skills Understanding Teaching Styles and Developing One That Works for You Making the Most of Your Communication Skills Teaching a Class Preparing and Teaching High Quality Lessons Getting (and Keeping) a Class Engaged Getting the Most out of Your Students Managing a Class Structuring Your Teaching and Your Teaching Space Building Better Behaviour Creating a Positive Classroom Atmosphere Handling Challenging Situations Dealing with Different Kinds of People Getting to Know your Students Working as Part of a Team Building Bonds with Parents Succeeding Beyond the Classroom Climbing the Paper Mountain Getting Involved in Extra Curricular Activities Evaluating and Furthering Your Teaching Skills The Part of Tens Ten Great Ways to Engage with a Group Ten Key Strategies for Handling Difficult Behaviour Ten Top Tips for Dealing with Stress Ten Best Resources for Teachers and Trainers.
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- Höfundur: Sue Cowley
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2011-01-06
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781119996682
- Print ISBN: 9780470740842
- ISBN 10: 1119996686
Efnisyfirlit
- Teaching Skills For Dummies
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- What You’re Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organised
- Part I: Developing Your Teaching Style
- Part II: Teaching a Class
- Part III: Managing a Class
- Part IV: Dealing with Different Kinds of People
- Part V: Succeeding Beyond the Classroom
- Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I Developing Your Teaching Style
- Chapter 1 Building Your Teaching Skills
- Developing Your Teaching Style
- Understanding your teaching style
- Becoming a confident teacher
- Improving how you communicate
- Managing and Teaching Your Class
- Creating fantastic lessons
- Being a brilliant teacher
- Taking control of your classroom
- Using structures to develop effective learning
- Handling behaviour in a positive way
- Creating a positive classroom climate
- Getting to Know the Main Characters
- Building relationships with your students
- Playing your part in the staff team
- Handling parents
- Building Your Skills Beyond the Classroom
- Dealing with paperwork
- Balancing your marking
- Working with your students beyond the classroom
- Reflecting on and developing your skills
- Developing Your Teaching Style
- Chapter 1 Building Your Teaching Skills
- Chapter 2 Understanding Teaching Styles – and Developing One That Works for You
- Putting on Your Teaching Character with Confidence
- Picking the right character
- Appearing confident – even when you’re not
- Exploring Different Teaching Styles
- ‘Old-school’ style – strict and scary
- ‘Modern’ style – firm, fair and fun
- Examining Your Own Teaching Style
- What works for me?
- What works in my setting?
- What works with my students?
- Reflecting on your challenges
- Developing Your Teaching Style
- Playing around with verbal and non-verbal communication
- Varying your lessons
- Putting on Your Teaching Character with Confidence
- Examining What You Say and Do
- Communication’s all about perception
- Understanding the subconscious messages you send
- Making Magic with Your Mouth
- Benefiting from volume
- Getting to the truth about tone
- Playing with pace
- Picking the right words
- Keeping to the point
- Letting Your Body Do the Talking
- The eyes have it
- Facing the facts
- Helping hands
- Perfecting posture and body position
- Taking Control of the Space
- Chapter 4 Preparing and Teaching High-Quality Lessons
- Remembering Your Own Teachers
- Planning for Success
- The components of an effective plan
- The three Rs of lesson planning: Reduce, reuse, recycle
- No plan, no problem?
- Structuring a Quality Lesson
- Sharing the lesson’s structure with your students
- Formats for success
- When to let your lessons develop organically
- Delivering a Brilliant Lesson
- Getting their attention
- Passion and inspiration
- Getting the content right
- Personalising the learning to the learners
- Making lessons topical
- Dealing with differentiation
- Keeping lessons interactive
- Don’t forget the fun!
- The Keys to Engaging Your Students
- Creating connections
- Creating engaging lessons for modern students
- Creating a sense of curiosity
- Looking at Learning Styles
- Teaching for different learning styles in the classroom
- Getting hands-on for learning
- Developing activities for different learning styles
- Creating Multisensory Lessons
- Why the senses are key
- Using the five senses
- Playing with the senses
- Keeping a Class On Task
- Introducing the activity
- Using targets and time limits
- Incorporating rewards
- Creating a sense of pace
- Fostering Focused Learning
- Developing focus and concentration
- Developing good listening skills
- Managing noise levels
- Using a Variety of Tasks
- Hallmarks of a nicely varied lesson
- Achieving variety across different subjects
- Making the Most of Resources
- Different kinds of resource
- Getting hands-on with resources
- Unusual ideas for resources
- Creating Fantastic Displays
- Exploring how displays contribute to learning
- Understanding what makes a good display
- Finding interesting places for displays
- Getting Assessment Right
- Different kinds of assessment
- The balancing act of marking
- Chapter 7 Structuring Your Teaching and Your Teaching Space
- Establishing Your Routines
- Understanding why routines are so vital
- Creating routines that work for you
- Creating routines to suit different age groups
- Maintaining your routines
- Managing Your Lesson Time
- Predicting how long activities should take
- Pacing a lesson to fill the time allotted
- Working with Groups
- Understanding why group work matters
- Organising your groups
- Getting the most out of every group member
- Setting Up Your Space
- Understanding the importance of layout
- Developing layouts for learning
- Managing the learners in the space
- Using a seating plan
- The teacher in the space
- Establishing Your Routines
- Establishing Your Expectations
- Defining what’s inside the box
- Picking the right time
- Sharing your expectations with your class
- Helping students mind the rules of the road
- Making a Class Come to You
- Getting silent attention
- Maintaining focus
- Maximising Your Strengths
- The power of personality
- Creating a powerful relationship
- Establishing empathy
- Overcoming Your Obstacles
- Dealing with nerves
- Staying calm
- Being consistent
- Maintaining a distance
- Staying on track
- Avoiding aggression
- Finding Strategies that Work for You
- Matching the strategies to the situation
- Matching the strategies to your style
- Practical strategies for managing behaviour
- Understanding Why Positivity Is Important
- Establishing a Positive Atmosphere
- Put on a happy face
- Make your students feel worthwhile
- Use rewards and sanctions appropriately
- We’re in this together
- Manage your own moods
- Maintaining your positive atmosphere
- Getting Rewards Right
- Finding the right motivation
- Choosing and applying rewards
- Suiting rewards to the individual student
- Setting the Scene for Sanctions
- Understanding how punishment works
- Applying sanctions
- Sanctions in your setting
- Dealing with Confrontation
- Understanding why confrontations happen
- Avoiding confrontation
- Dealing with confrontation
- Handling the aftermath
- Managing Challenging Individuals
- Handling the refuser
- Dealing with the aggressor
- Coping with the verbally abusive student
- Winning Back the ‘Lost’ Class
- Spotting the warning signs
- Getting a class back under control
- Coping with a lost class
- Managing Your Stress Levels
- Recognising signs of being over-stressed
- Strategies for dealing with stress
- Chapter 11 Getting to Know Your Students
- Discovering How to Build Relationships
- Why good relationships are vital
- Building bonds with your students
- Using questions to ‘click’ with your class
- Buddy or boss – getting the balance right
- Treating them as people as well as students
- Names, names, names – knowing and using them
- Dealing with Different Types of Student
- Differentiating your approaches
- Handling students with special needs
- Managing the brightest learners
- Boosting self-esteem and confidence
- Dealing with those who opt out
- Developing Your Pastoral Role
- Understanding what your pastoral role is about
- Developing your pastoral role
- Discovering How to Build Relationships
- Building a Positive School Ethos
- Fostering a Team Environment
- Supporting other team members
- Taking a consistent approach
- Understanding different perspectives
- Valuing everyone’s contribution
- Trying not to pass on your problems
- Sharing your ideas and resources
- Rewarding and motivating others
- Understanding Who’s Who in Your Team
- Teaching staff
- Teaching support staff
- Non-teaching support staff
- Finding other sources of support
- Working with Teaching Support Staff
- Getting to know your support staff
- Making the most of your support staff
- Exploring useful roles for support staff
- Getting to Know the Right People
- Good acquaintances to make
- Staff you’re best to avoid
- Understanding Parents
- What parents really want from teachers
- Looking for the perfect parent
- Working with the difficult or indifferent parent
- Getting to Know Parents
- Building lines of communication
- Getting parents involved
- Using parent volunteers
- Reporting to Parents
- Handling the parents’ meeting
- Writing effective reports
- Chapter 14 Climbing the Paper Mountain
- Dealing with Paperwork
- Determining what’s essential and what’s not
- Bin it, deal with it, pass it on: The three rules for managing paperwork
- Your ‘To Do’ List: A Lifesaver during Busy Times
- Marking Papers and Writing Reports: Achieving the Impossible
- Handling your marking load
- Dealing with report writing
- Learning the Art of Filing
- Creating an effective filing system
- Maintaining your filing system
- Dealing with Paperwork
- Inspiring Beyond the Classroom
- Just how involved can you be?
- Why extra-curricular activities matter
- Different types of extra-curricular activities
- The ups and downs of getting involved
- Taking Time Out for a Trip
- Deciding to take a trip
- The technicalities of trips
- Handling behaviour on school trips
- Getting the most out of a trip
- Taking Stock of Your Situation
- Understanding your strengths and weaknesses
- Considering where you go next
- Getting the Most Out of Observations
- Preparing for an observation
- During the observation
- Getting feedback after an observation
- Dealing with inspection and inspectors
- Furthering Your Personal Development
- Taking additional qualifications
- Doing something just for yourself
- Chapter 17 Ten Great Ways to Engage with a Group
- Build a Relationship
- Use Inclusive Language
- Create Imaginative Scenarios
- Remember Their Names
- Give a Little of Yourself
- Find Out What They Love
- Use Imaginative Rewards
- Take Them Outdoors
- Use the Power of the Peer Group
- Give ’em a Surprise
- Chapter 18 Ten Key Strategies for Handling Difficult Behaviour
- Stay Calm
- Ignore Attention Seekers
- Be Reasonable, But Don’t Reason with Them
- Give Troublemakers a Choice
- Stick to Your Guns
- Know When to Be Flexible
- Turn on a Penny
- Apply Lateral Thinking
- React from Your Head, Not from Your Heart
- Put Yourself in Their Shoes
- Chapter 19 Ten Tips for Dealing with Stress
- Keep a Sense of Perspective
- Don’t Take Things Personally
- Build a Support Network
- Create a Home/Work Divide
- Put Up a Wall
- Maintain a Sense of Humour
- Feel Pity, not Anger
- Learn to Forgive Yourself
- A Fresh Start Every Time
- Give Yourself a Pat on the Back
- Chapter 20 Ten Best Book and Website Resources for Teachers and Trainers
- Books
- Cracking the Hard Class
- The Craft of the Classroom
- Getting the Buggers to Behave
- Surviving and Succeeding in Difficult Classrooms
- The Teacher’s Toolkit
- Useful Web Sites
- Primary Resources
- Teachernet
- Teachers TV
- The Times Educational Supplement (TES)
- Woodlands Junior School
- Books
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