Great Teaching : What Matters Most in Helping Students Succeed

by Robert C. Di Giulio

• ISBN13: 9780761988311
• ISBN10: 0761988319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-18
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

" 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." Alan Canestrari, Assistant Professor of Education Roger Williams University Discover what makes you a great teacher--and what makes teaching great! Did you know that you are a great teacher? Amid the parents and the paperwork, the assessments and accountability, the evaluations and the e-mail, many teachers cana??t find time to reflect on, much less assess, their own teaching. This concise guide brings teaching back to its fundamental roots, proving that how you teach is just as important as what you teach. Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great teachers--like caring, enthusiasm, clarity, and questioning--and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves. Drawing on his 33 years of experience, DiGiulio has developed specific techniques for: Assessing yourself and identifying your strengths Distilling your workload to the essentials and fundamentals Learning from your colleagues and planning cooperatively Using an 8-step framework to redefine your view of teaching Get back to basics, realize that less is more, and flourish as you develop the skills and qualities that make you the great teacher that you are!

Table of Contents

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!)

"But we hardly have the time!"

First Self Assessment: What Can be Tossed, What Must be Kept

The Complete Teacher: Knowledge and Skills and Qualities

Key Teacher Skills and Qualities

2. Key Teacher Skills: What Teachers Do

Key Teacher Skills, Prior to Teaching

Key Teacher Skills, While Teaching

Key Teacher Skills, After Teaching

Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Skills Self-Assessment

3. Key Teacher Qualities: How Teachers Do It

Key Teacher Quality #1--Efficacy

Key Teacher Quality #2--Caring

Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Qualities Self-Assessment

4. Summary and Conclusion: Beyond Great to Memorable

Summary of Skills and Qualities Checklists

Plans of Action

Follow-up Assessment

Conclusion

Resources

Guidelines for student success in academics and socialization: A school-wide qualitative assessment

References

Index