Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their BrainsThe handbook for improving morale by managing, disciplining and motivating your students This second edition of the bestselling book includes practical suggestions for arranging your classroom, talking to students, avoiding the misbehavior cycle, and making your school a place where students learn and teachers teach. The book also contains enlivening Q&A from teachers, letters from students, and tips for grading. This new edition has been expanded to include coverage of the following topics: discipline, portfolio assessments, and technology in the classroom.
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Contents
TWO Are You Teacher Material? | 5 |
Choose Your Persona | 19 |
Respect Yourself | 33 |
Covering Curriculum Is Not Teaching | 40 |
Prepare Your Paperwork | 67 |
Prepare Yourself | 80 |
Grab Your Students by Their Brains | 97 |
Introduce Students to Each Other | 111 |
If You Have to Have Detention Make It Worthwhile | 162 |
And Now for Something Completely Different | 190 |
Seeing Is Believing | 205 |
Mothers Milk Versus Formula | 219 |
Help Students Believe Success Is Possible | 233 |
Catch Kids Being Good | 241 |
Connect Through Private Journals | 255 |
Nick | 268 |
Demonstrate the Power of Choice | 124 |
What Goes Around Does Come Around | 138 |
Characteristics of Successful Discipline Policies | 146 |
Recommended Web Sites | 282 |
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Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains LouAnne Johnson No preview available - 2011 |
Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains LouAnne Johnson No preview available - 2011 |
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