44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes [Paperback]

Based on the observations of more than 200 instructors, this hands-on text presents finely honed strategies to help teachers create an environment for better teaching and learning.Based on the observations of more than 200 instructors, this hands-on text presents finely honed strategies to help teachers create an environment for better teaching and learning.Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Section 1: Expect the Unexpected
Smart Strategy 1: Those Who Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
Smart Strategy 2: Develop Your Academic Sixth Sense
Section 2: The Organized Classroom
Smart Strategy 3: Create the Well-Oiled Machine That Runs on Its Own
Smart Strategy 4: Harness the Paper Tiger
Smart Strategy 5: Design Soul-Stirring Learning Environments
Smart Strategy 6: Creative Minds Can Be Tidy
Section 3: Become a Friend of the Family
Smart Strategy 7: Seek Parents as Partners
Smart Strategy 8: Promote Parent Involvement Through Active Interaction
Smart Stragegy 9: Use a Sandwich Cookie Model of Parent Conferencing
Smart Strategy 10: Make House Calls
Section 4: Raise Your Nurturance Index a Notch or Two
Smart Strategy 11: Love the Unlovable Child
Smart Strategy 12: Seek to Understand All of Your Children
Smart Strategy 13: Consider Special Ethnicity and Cultural Issues
Smart Strategy 14: Respect and Celebrate Student Differences
Smart Strategy 15: Avoid Academic Trauma
Smart Strategy 16: Empower the Disempowered
Smart Strategy 17: Practice Saying Yes Whenever Possible
Section 5: Balance Your Personal Assets and Liabilities
Smart Strategy 18: Develop Strategies to Maximize Your Strengths and Minimize Your Weaknesses
Smart Strategy 19: Shelve Your Emotional Baggage
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