"This book will make you laugh, make you shake your head in disbelief, and keep you amazed. Most important, this book will help you become a more enlightened and effective educator as you gracefully sidestep difficult situations by remembering the practical lessons within these pages."
-Jennifer Brooks, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Olmos Elementary School, San Antonio, TX
Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches!
All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.
25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author's prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:
- Discipline
- Teacher-student relations
- Classroom policy and practices
- Classroom management and instruction
- Personality and professionalism
- Teaching style and behavior
Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this book's real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.
Table of Contents: Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part I. Discipline
1. Mistake 1: Inappropriate Discipline Strategies
2. Mistake 2: Physical Aggression
3. Mistake 3: Purposeful Alienation
4. Mistake 4: Public Ridicule
Part II. Teacher-Student Relations
5. Mistake 5: Favoritism
6. Mistake 6: Physiological Discrimination
7. Mistake 7: Personal Attacks
8. Mistake 8: Inappropriate Teacher-Student Relationships
9. Mistake 9: Deliberate Mistreatment
10. Mistake 10: Racial and Cultural Differences
11. Mistake 11: Humiliation
Part III. Classroom Policies and Practices
12. Mistake 12: Inappropriate Classroom Policies
13. Mistake 13: Inappropriate Toileting Practices
Part IV. Classroom Management and Instruction
14. Mistake 14: Inappropriate Educational Strategies
15. Mistake 15: Inappropriate Assessment
Part V. Personality and Professionalism
16. Mistake 16: Teacher Insensitivity
17. Mistake 17: Academic Shortcomings
18. Mistake 18: Poor Administration
19. Mistake 19: Teacher Reputation
20. Mistake 20: Teacher Misjudgment
Part VI. Teaching Style and Behavior
21. Mistake 21: Teacher Bias or Expectations
22. Mistake 22: Unethical Behavior
23. Mistake 23: False Accusations
24. Mistake 24: Inappropriate Reactions
25. Mistake 25: Sexual Harassment
Part VII. Teacher Confessions of Worst Treatment of a Child: Their Motives and Feelings
Epilogue
References
Index
