Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains

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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 10, 2011 - Education - 320 pages
The 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.

  • Includes engaging questions for reflection at the end of each chapter
  • Johnson is the author of The New York Times bestseller Dangerous Minds (originally My Posse Don't Do Homework)
  • Contains a wealth of practical tools that support stellar classroom instruction
This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains comprehensive advice for both new and experienced teachers on classroom management, discipline, motivation, and morale.
 

Contents

An Open Letter
1
Super Excellent or Good?
7
What Is Teaching All About?
13
Choose Your Persona
19
Plan for Bathroom Breaks
26
Respect Yourself
33
Covering Curriculum Is Not Teaching
40
Prepare Your Paperwork
67
What Goes Around Does Come Around
138
Characteristics of Successful Discipline Policies
146
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

Prepare Yourself
80
Grab Your Students by Their Brains
97
Introduce Students to Each Other
111
Demonstrate the Power of Choice
124
Connect Through Private Journals
255
Nick
268
Recommended Web Sites
282
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About the author (2011)

LouAnne Johnson is a former U.S. Navy journalist, Marine Corps officer, and high school teacher. She is the author of several books, including The Queen of Education and the New York Times bestseller Dangerous Minds. At present, Johnson is associate professor of teacher education at Santa Fe Community College.

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