Secrets of Great Teachers: 22 Strategies to Energize Middle and High School Classrooms

by Elisheva Zeffren, Perella Perlstein

Overview

You can abandon rote learning with this middle and high school teaching guide. Encouraging both students and teachers to unlock their creativity, the authors provide guidance in lesson planning and ideas for creating unconventional homework, projects and tests that are cost-free and easy to implement. This book leads teachers away from endorsing competition and teacher-pleasing behavior, and offers ideas for independent thinking that will strengthen students' decision-making, deductive reasoning and emotional intelligence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476630540
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/25/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
Sales rank:	933,162
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

With more than twenty years of hands-on teaching experience, Elisheva Zeffren relishes experimenting with innovative strategies to reshape the learning experience. An educational consultant and high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, she confers closely with principals and faculty, who have welcomed her assistance. A New York state licensed psychologist, Perella Perlstein has a private practice in Brooklyn, New York, and is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Lander College for Women.
With more than twenty years of hands-on teaching experience, Elisheva Zeffren relishes experimenting with innovative strategies to reshape the learning experience. An educational consultant and high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, she confers closely with principals and faculty, who have welcomed her assistance.
A New York state licensed psychologist, Perella Perlstein has a private practice in Brooklyn, New York, and is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Lander College for Women.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
 1. Finding the “Hot Spots”
 2. Blending and Broadening Teaching
 3. Moving Away from Useless Teaching
 4. Choosing Less to Produce More
 5. Promoting Discovery
 6. Blossoming with Bloom
 7. Giving Homework a Brain
 8. Employing Visual Aids
 9. Maximizing Children’s Books
10. Implementing Recordings and Video Clips
11. Getting Down to the Actual Lesson Plan
12. Seeing the Lesson Plan Unfold
13. Liberating the Struggling Student
14. Cutting Competition
15. Pulverizing Prizes
16. Purging Pleasing
17. Promoting Healthy Independent Thinking
18. Cultivating the Critic
19. Restocking the Shelves of Our Book Bankrupt Society
20. Putting Literacy to the Test
21. Testing and Grading Made Easy
22. Giving Specific Praise and Constructive Criticism
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

offers a multidimensional perspective on teaching and emphasizes a variety of strategies that can help improve overall instructional practices... The writing is simple and clear; bullet points keep the reader focused on important ideas throughout. The book offers strategies that can be considered universal and can be applied to a wide range of school subjects in middle schools and high schools.... valuable...recommended”—ARBA.

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