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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Elisheva Zeffren ,  Perella Perlstein
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781476670300

ISBN 10:   1476670307
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   13 February 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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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

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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.

“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.

Author Information

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.

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