Teaching as a human activity : ways to make classrooms joyful and effective

• Main Author: Hatch, J. Amos (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021.
• Subjects: Effective teaching.; First year teachers.; Teacher effectiveness.; Classroom management.; Teachers > Job stress > Prevention.; Education > Teaching > General.; Teaching staff.; Teaching skills and techniques.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806603770
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64802-640-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)

"This is a book for teachers, especially new and soon-to-be teachers. It's a book from one teacher to other teachers who care deeply about what goes on in schools, who see teaching as a calling, who want to make their time in classrooms life changing for the students they are lucky enough...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Introduction: Who is guarding the meaning?
• Part I. What can i do to be sure i realize my dream of making a positive difference in the lives of my students?
• Chapter 1. Our goal should be to make a difference in the life of every student we teach
• Chapter 2. Students need a purpose to give energy to schooling
• Chapter 3. Classrooms need to be places where everyone has a stake in everyone else's success
• Chapter 4. It is shortsighted to think that having fun is a worthy goal for classroom activity
• Part II. How can i make my teaching effective by building on vital human connections with my students?
• Chapter 5. Teaching that ignores the humanness of students and teachers is joyless and limited in effectiveness
• Chapter 6. Students need to see learning as an inherently valuable human activity and that they are fully capable learners
• Chapter 7. Loving students is not enough / Teachers Need to Be Warm Demanders
• Chapter 8. Teaching focused on human processes could make school more meaningful to students and teachers
• Part III. How can i make my classroom management effective while encouraging my students to become self-regulating agents of their own behavior?
• Chapter 9. Teaching self-respect is way more important than developing positive self-concepts
• Chapter 10. Teachers need to make rules that make sense and reflect the genuine purposes of the classroom
• Chapter 11. When teachers get in power struggles with students, we lose every time
• Chapter 12. Understanding facework principles is essential to building positive classroom cultures
• Part IV. What are instructional approaches that will engage my students in shaping their own development and learning?
• Chapter 13. Scaffolding is the most powerful teaching strategy invented so far
• Chapter 14. Teaching students to think would enrich the education experience and better prepare students to operate in an increasingly complex world
• Chapter 15. In order to operate successfully in the 21st century, students need to become critically literate consumers of information in its multiple forms
• Chapter 16. Teachers need to understand and demonstrate to their students that technology has value in so far as it enhances the human experience in school and beyond
• Part V. What can i do to ensure my successful initiation into the teaching profession and avoid burnout in the future?
• Chapter 17. Teachers need to design and monitor their own socialization into the field
• Chapter 18. It is risky for teachers to depend on students' love as their major source of intrinsic job satisfaction
• Chapter 19. Lone ranger teachers may seem heroic / But Everyone Needs Support, Encouragement, and a Sense of Community
• Chapter 20. Great teachers must not burn out / We Need Them to Guard the Meaning
• Chapter 21. Postscript: What does teaching as a human activity look like during a time of crisis? About the author.