Dealing With Difficult Teachers

Author : Todd Whitaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317820738
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Difficult Teachers written by Todd Whitaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers. Learn how to handle staff members who gossip in the teacher's lounge, consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested, send an excessive number of student to your office for disciplinary reasons, undermine your efforts toward school improvement, or negatively influence other staff members. Don’t miss the revised and expanded third edition of this best-seller!

Author : Lauren McArthur Harris
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807780774
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times written by Lauren McArthur Harris and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite limitations and challenges, teaching about difficult histories is an essential aspect of social studies courses and units across grade levels. This practical resource highlights stories of K–12 practitioners who have critically examined and reflected on their experiences with planning and teaching histories identified as difficult. Featuring the voices of teacher educators, classroom teachers, and museum educators, these stories provide readers with rare examples of how to plan for, teach, and reflect on difficult histories. The book is divided into four main sections: Centering Difficult History Content, Centering Teacher and Student Identities, Centering Local and Contemporary Contexts, and Centering Teacher Decision-making. Key topics include teaching about genocide, slavery, immigration, war, racial violence, and terrorism. This dynamic book highlights the practitioner’s perspective to reveal how teachers can and do think critically about their motivations and the methods they use to engage students in rigorous, complex, and appropriate studies of the past. Book Features: Expanded notions of what difficult histories can be and how they can be approached pedagogically.Thoughtful pictures of practice of some of the most complex histories to teach. Stories of K–12 teachers and museum educators with the research of leading scholars in social studies education. Examples from a wide range of educational contexts in the United States and other countries. Resources useful to teachers and teacher educators. Contributors include LaGarrett J. King, Cinthia Salinas, Stephanie van Hover, Amanda Vickery, Sohyun An, H. James (Jim) Garrett, Christopher C. Martell, and Jennifer Hauver.

Author : Todd Whitaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131792584X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Great Principals Do Differently written by Todd Whitaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of this best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom, and examples from the field, Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. New features include: Developing an accurate sense of self Understanding the dynamics of change Dealing with negative or ineffective staff members One of the nation’s leading experts on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd Whitaker has written over 20 powerful books for educators of every level. Discover what you can do differently.

Author : Todd Whitaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317925785
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 6 Types of Teachers written by Todd Whitaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps you sharpen your ability to hire better teachers for your school, improve the ones who are already there, and keep your best and brightest on board.

Author : Elizabeth Breaux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131793038X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Teachers, Real Challenges, Real Solutions written by Elizabeth Breaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps new and experienced teachers find solutions to common classroom challenges. It presents 25 real scenarios along with “What’s Effective”, “What’s NOT Effective,” and “Bottom Line” strategies for handling the most common teacher challenges. Ideal for high-interest staff development workshops or new teacher induction programs, this book shows teachers how to get students to do what you want them to do; deal with disrespectful student behaviors and handle “I don’t care” attitudes; deal with parents and difficult co-workers; and solve other common teaching challenges.REAL Teachers, REAL Challenges, REAL Solutions: 25 Ways to Handle the Challenges of the Classroom Effectively is for teachers who need common-sense answers to common teaching challenges, experienced teachers who seek to become even more effective, and teachers who believe in treating their students with professionalism and dignity.

Author : Julia G. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470493313
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Year Teacher's Survival Guide written by Julia G. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuable tips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and connecting with students to handling behavior problems and working within diverse classrooms. The new edition is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years. Updates to the second edition include: • New ways teachers can meet the professional development requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act • Entirely new section on helping struggling readers, to address the declining literacy rate among today’s students • Expanded coverage of helpful technology solutions for the classroom • Expanded information on teaching English Language Learners • Greater coverage of the issues/challenges facing elementary teachers • More emphasis on how to reach and teach students of poverty • Updated study techniques that have proven successful with at-risk students • Tips on working effectively within a non-traditional school year schedule • The latest strategies for using graphic organizers • More emphasis on setting goals to help students to succeed • More information on intervening with students who are capable but choose not to work • Updated information on teachers’ rights and responsibilities regarding discipline issues • Fully revised Resources appendix including the latest educational Web sites and software

Author : Todd Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415734783
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Difficult Teachers, Third Edition written by Todd Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers. Learn how to handle staff members who gossip in the teacher's lounge, consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested, send an excessive number of student to your office for disciplinary reasons, undermine your efforts toward school improvement, or negatively influence other staff members. Don't miss the revised and expanded third edition of this best-seller!

Author : Dana Goldstein
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345803620
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teacher Wars written by Dana Goldstein and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Author : Robert Bacal
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493695485
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Bridges Between Home and School written by Robert Bacal and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers, principals, school administrators, even school support staff know that it "takes a village to educate a child". Unfortunately, educators, parents and tax payers are often on different sides of issues, and work at cross purposes. Teachers get frustrated and stressed, and parents get angry, upset, and often aggressive and hostile towards school staff, often because they care so much. In this practical and hands-on book, teachers, administrators and school staff can learn to deal with even the most difficult parents, even those who are insulting and challenging. You'll learn over 100 hands-on, practical tactics to: Take control of difficult conversations with parents Maintain your own self-control when interacting with upset, and even abusive parents and members of the community. Reduce the time and stress involved in dealing with uncooperative parents. Apply the Psychology of anger, and basic psycholinguistic elements to establish rapport and bridges when conflict happens. Apply basic principles of Jiu_Jitsu and Aidido to difficult conversations. Stop verbal abuse cold, while maintaining a professional demeanor and focusing on the welfare of the student. Handle non-verbal intimidation tactics smoothly and safely. Set limits and apply them to difficult interactions when the gentler methods of verbal self-defense fail. Ideal for teaching staff, but also school principals, school superintendents and school board officials -- anyone who deals directly with parents and community members. Included is a special chapter for principals and administrators with tactics to use to support teachers and staff in building bridges with the community, rate payers, and parents.

Author : Jennifer Abrams
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452276501
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Having Hard Conversations written by Jennifer Abrams and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speak with clarity, confidence, and courage! Many educators struggle with discussing difficult issues with colleagues. This insightful book helps readers effectively lead challenging conversations with supervisees, peers, and supervisors. Emphasizing initiative and preparation as keys to a successful conversation, the author’s step-by-step approach provides: Thought-provoking questions and first-person accounts that help build communications skills Advice on overcoming personal hesitation about expressing concerns Guidance on goal setting and choosing the best “what-where-and-when” for a productive discussion Sample scripts and other interactive tools to help educators prepare for the conversation and achieve positive outcomes