Full Description
What does it mean to teach well? In short, it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered classroom.
Based on interviews with renowned scholar Stephen D. Brookfield, this book covers a wide range of topics - such as classroom democratization, critical thinking and reflection, race and power, and more. Each chapter is framed by key questions meant to hone teachers' crafts and encourage important conversations. Further, this engaging book examines the crucial steps of bringing educators' identities and backgrounds into practice by soliciting and responding to student feedback, negotiating power dynamics, and the ways institutional constraints, students, and self-concepts can sabotage efforts.
A timely text, Teaching Well is the ideal companion for all college and university educators and experienced practitioners across the globe who continue to reflect critically about their teaching practice.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. What does it mean to teach well?
2. How do our experiences as students frame our teaching?
3. How do we do learning-centered teaching?
4. How do we deal with classroom and self-sabotage?
5. How does power show up in classrooms?
6. How do we democratize classrooms?
7. How can we promote good discussions?
8. Teaching critical thinking
9. How do we teach about race?
10. How can we become critically reflective teachers?
11. How can we enact the power of modeling?
12. How do we teach well as leaders?
13. How do we learn and grow as teachers over a career?
References
Index
