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9781551381626

The Classroom Troubleshooter

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  • ISBN13:

    9781551381626

  • ISBN10:

    1551381621

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
  • Publisher: Stenhouse Pub

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Summary

TheClassroom Troubleshooterprovides practical, no-nonsense solutions to the problems that plague a teacher's day. This handy, easy-to-use guide incorporates a number of invaluable rubrics, checklists, templates, reference sheets, questionnaires, and student guidelines. Included are strategies to help teachers: avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia"; mark "smart"; anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems; develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and objective-style tests; increase student comprehension of textbooks; implement and mark journal writing; guide talk-based learning; reflect on how individual teachers can impact on the overall functioning of the school.The Classroom Troubleshooterempowers teachers to control their environment and to reclaim time and energy so that their gifts and skills can be directed into teaching and learning with their students.

Table of Contents

Preface 5(2)
1 The Paper Chase 7(17)
A Place for Everything
9(1)
Four Options for Paper
10(1)
Logging Parental Contacts
11(1)
Climbing the Marking Mountain
12(4)
When to Let Students Mark
16(1)
Meeting Your Daily Marking Quota
17(1)
Rubric for Notebook Marking
18(1)
Marking "Smart"
19(1)
Marking Tests and Exams
19(2)
Marking Rubric for Expository Writing
21(1)
Marking Projects
22(1)
Beyond Crisis Management
22(2)
2 The Discipline Maze 24(24)
Setting Standards
25(2)
Classrooms 'r' Us
27(1)
"Catching" Behavior
27(3)
Observational Checklist
30(1)
Talk, Talk, Talk
31(2)
Discipline Do's and Don'ts
33(4)
Tactical Maneuvers
37(6)
Dealing with Control Disorders
43(1)
Understanding Bullying
44(2)
Becoming Aware of Relationship Aggression
46(1)
The Need to Monitor Student Behavior
47(1)
3 The Evaluation Merry-go-round 48(27)
Teacher Questionnaire: Evaluating Your Evaluation
50(1)
Identifying Your Intentions
51(2)
Summative Evaluation Marks Sheet for Small-Group Discussion Skills
53(1)
Evaluation Pitfalls
54(2)
Teacher Reference Sheet: Test or Assignment Terminology
56(2)
Teacher Checklist: Setting Evaluation Parameters
58(1)
Teacher Checklist: How Good Is My Test?
59(1)
Preparing for Projects
60(1)
Assigning and Marking Projects
61(1)
Media Literacy Project Assignment
62(2)
Magazine Ad Evaluation
64(1)
Research and the Internet
65(2)
Student Guideline: How to Use the Internet
67(1)
Essay-style Evaluation
68(1)
Student Guideline: How to Write an Essay-style Test
69(2)
Objective-style Evaluation
71(1)
Deus ex Machina: The Computer
72(3)
4 The Learning and Language Dilemma 75(19)
You Say Learning: I Say Language
75(1)
Reading to Learn
76(1)
The Trouble with Texts
76(1)
Deciphering Textbooks
77(1)
Writing to Learn
78(1)
Duelling Journals
79(2)
How to Mark Journals
81(1)
Teacher Guideline: Short-term Marking Rubric for Response Journal Entries
82(1)
Teacher Guideline: Long-term Evaluation Instrument for Response Journal Entries
83(1)
Talking and Learning
84(1)
Small-Group Discussions
84(1)
Teacher Checklist: Talk-based Learning
85(1)
Setting Up Groups
86(2)
Discussion Caveats
88(1)
Focusing on Discussion Skills
89(1)
Student Guideline: How to Develop Small-Group Discussion Skills
90(2)
Student Self-evaluation: Practising Small-Group Discussion Skills
92(1)
The Search for Meaning
93(1)
5 The Reflection Conundrum 94(18)
Reviewing Fundamental Values
95(3)
Gaining Perspective on Partnerships
98(2)
The Need to Evaluate Your School
100(2)
School Assessment Reflection Tool
102(5)
Considering the Influence of School Cultures
107(2)
Making a Commitment to Reflection
109(3)
Appendices 112(3)
Glossary 115(4)
Selected Bibliography 119(1)
Index 120

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