Full Description
Teachers who acquire elaborate core practices intuitively make the best decisions in the classroom. They rely on expertise that enables them not only to master the daily and often complex challenges of the profession, but to teach in ways that help students make the best possible progress. They recognize core practices as the key components of adaptive and successful teaching, in such areas as supporting students, diagnosing difficulties, providing feedback, guiding conversations, explaining, and more. Core Practices of Successful Teachers: Supporting Learning and Managing Instruction explores core practices that enable educators to teach in the best possible way for the benefit of students. Via a variety of suggestions and activities, this book shows pre-service and in-service teachers how to not only learn about and understand numerous core practices, but also how to engage with, develop, reflect on, and improve them.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Read This First
Chapter 1. What You Should Know Before Working with This Book
Chapter 2. How to Work Successfully with This Book
Part II: Supporting Individual Learning
Chapter 3. Supporting Individual Learning: What it is All About
Chapter 4. Diagnostics: How Do I Find Out Where the Students Stand?
Chapter 5. Professional Feedback to Learners: Crucial for Any Support
Chapter 6. How to Make Feedback and One-on-One Conversations More Effective
Part III: Managing Instruction
Chapter 7. Introduction
Chapter 8. The Transparent Opening of a Lesson
Chapter 9. Providing an Input
Chapter 10. Guiding Discussions
Chapter 11. Guidelines for Learning Activities
Chapter 12. Summing Up and Closing
Chapter 13. Some Variations of the Basic Lesson Structure
Part IV: Where Do We Stand Now?
Chapter 14. A Closer Look at the Concept of (Core) Practices
Chapter 15. Epilogue: My Own Practices
References
About the Author
