Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

(Nancy Kaufman) #1
        - (with apologies to John Dewey)


  • 2 Responsibilities: What Is a Teacher?

    • and Creative Maladjustment A: My Best Teachers 1: Directed Experience, Scaffolding,

    • B: Nuts and Bolts of Teaching

      • I Was Not a Great Studentby Christian Caponi

      • “By the Book” Versus “the Real World”by Steve Bologna

      • Experiences as Students C: Becoming a Teacher 2: New Teachers Discuss Their Personal

        • A Student Who Did Just Enough to Get Byby Stacey Cotten

        • I Was Once in Their Shoesby Susan Soitiriades

        • I Hated Teachers Who Were Controllingby Jennifer Bambino

        • I Was Called “Spic”by Lynda Costello-Herrera

        • I Was the New Kid and I Was Scaredby Stephanie Hunte

        • I Could Not Speak Englishby Jayne O’Neill





    • D: Teaching Stories

      • I Come From a Family of Teachersby Maureen Murphy

      • How I Learned to Teach Mathby Rhonda Eisenberg

      • For Jonathan Levin, Teacherby Alan Singer





  • ORGANIZATION, COMMUNITY BOOK II: PRO/CLASS PRACTICES—PLANNING, RELATIONSHIPS,

    • 3 Planning: How Do You Plan a Lesson?

      • A: What Are Your Goals?

      • B: What Are Teaching Strategies?

      • C: My Best Teachers 2: A Lesson in Humility

      • D: What Does a Lesson Look Like?

        • What Is a Lesson Plan?

        • What Do You Need to Consider?



      • E: Four Sample Lesson Formats

        • An Activity-Based Format

        • A Developmental Lesson Format

        • Format for Hunter’s Approach to Lesson Planning

        • Format for a Streamlined Activity-Based Lesson Plan



      • F: Becoming a Teacher 3: What Makes Someone Successful as a Teacher?

        • I Will Not Let the Wheelchair Be an Excuseby Dennis Mooney



      • G: Teaching Stories

        • How I Learned to Be a Teacherby David Morris

        • and Everything Else)? H: What Is Thematic Teaching (in Social Studies, Biology,



      • I: Some Useful Ideas for Organizing Lessons

      • to Successful Teaching? 4 Relationships: Why Are Relationships With Students Crucial

        • A: How Important Are Relationships Between a Teacher and Students?

        • B: My Best Teachers 3: Learning From My Students

        • C: How Important Is It to “See” and “Hear” Students?

        • D: What Does It Mean to Be “Gifted”?

          • Were the Mystery Men Gifted?by Alan Singer

            • by Judith Y. Singer and Alan Singer Promoting Relationship, Literacy, and Responsibility





        • E: Teaching Stories

          • Do You Want to Be?by S. Maxwell Hines Reflections on Race, Democracy, and Education: What Kind of Teacher



        • F: Should Teachers See Race and Discuss Injustice?





    • 5 Organization: How Are Classrooms and Schools Organized?

      • What Would It Look Like? A: If You Could Build a Secondary School From Scratch,

      • B: How Can You Find (and Hold Onto) a Job in a Traditional School Setting?

        • What Would It Look Like? C: If You Could Design a Secondary School Classroom,



      • D: Nuts and Bolts of Teaching 2: How Do You Establish Classroom Rules?

      • E: How Do You Organize an Inclusive Classroom?

        • General Classroom Suggestions for Inclusive Classrooms

        • Co-teaching Suggestions for Classroom and Inclusion Teachers



      • F: Becoming a Teacher 4: Responding to Different School Settings

        • The First Day of the School Yearby Laura Pearson

        • A New Teacher’s Difficult Journeyby Nichole Williams

        • I Know I Can Get My Message Acrossby Ken Dwyer

        • My Students Call Me the “Math Geek”by Kathleen Simons Smith



      • Committed to Educational Goals? 6 Community: How Do You Build Classroom Communities

        • A: Can Community Emerge From Chaos?

        • B: How “Teacher Tricks” Can Help Build Community

        • C: Becoming a Teacher 5: What Does Community Building Look Like?

          • I Struggle for My Students, Not Against Themby Rachel Gaglione



        • D: How Do “Corny Teacher Jokes” Help You to Be “Real”?

          • Student Achievement? E: How Does Cooperative Learning Build Community While Promoting



        • F: How Can Teachers Develop Student Leadership?







  • to Dealing With Classroom and Other Professional Problems Concluding Thoughts for Book II: A PRO/CLASS Practices Approach

    • A: Some Complicated but Pretty Standard “Classroom Problems”

    • B: Guidance-Related Issue Can Be Very Thorny and Raise Legal Questions

    • C: Relationships With Colleagues Can Be Tricky

    • D: Disagreements With School Policies



  • SUPPORT, STRUGGLE BOOK III: PRO/CLASS PRACTICES—LITERACY, ASSESSMENT,

    • 7 Literacy: How Can Teachers Encourage Student Literacies?

      • A: What Is Critical Literacy?

      • B: How Many Kinds of Literacy Are There?

      • C: What Are Literacy Standards?





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