Great Teaching What Matters Most in Helping Students Succeed [Paperback]

Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great educators and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves.

Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great educators and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves.

Great Teaching offers a compass for teachers seeking direction, reorientation, and renewal. DiGiulio strips away the distractions and has put together an exceedingly readable, valuable, and affirming guide for preservice and classroom teachers to reflect upon their practice.Finally . . . a forthright, down-to-earth look at what is really important in our schools and in our society: great teachers and great teaching!Great Teaching is packed with tips that speak directly to the nitty gritty reality of classrooms, helping teachers to be skillful and thoughtful in creating conditions for the teaching-learning compact.Finally! Someone who acknowledges the vital skills that good teachers possess. We need this type of acknowledgment more often.Bravo! This is a true educators handbook. This book finally puts in print what is a quality teacher, providing quality education. This should be the Bible for every educators library!Amid the high-stakes climate of public education today, DiGiulios gem of a book reminds us of far more important outcomes than politicized test scores. Plain and simple, the book resonates with common sense.Preface
What This Book Is, and Is Not
A Word About Schools
And a Word About Teachers
Reviewer Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction: What Makes a Skillful, Caring Teacher?
Great Teaching is Still Great Teaching (And It's the Teaching that Matters Most!)