Teaching Teens and Reaping Results in a Wi-Fi, Hip-Hop, Where-Has-All-the-Sanity-Gone World Stories, Strategies, Tools & Tips from a Three-Time Teacher of the Year Award Winner

by Sitomer, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780545036030
• ISBN10: 0545036038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory and Practice)

Summary

How do you prepare teens for the world filled with jobs, technologies, and challenges that don't even yet exist? Take a pull-no-punches, inspirational trip inside the classroom of Three-Time Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated young adult novelist Alan Lawrence Sitomer. Hear stories, discover teaching tools, and gain insights straight from the private file cabinet of his high school classroom. Yes, there are educators breaking through to today's teens in remarkable, innovative, reproducible ways. Meet one and learn his best strategies. For use with Grades 6-12.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Acknowledgments and Shout-Outs	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
Haagen-Daz, Hip-Hop, and Holy Smokes!: Teaching Teens to Bounce Back	p. 13
If You Build It, They Will Come: Teaching Teens to Craft a Vision	p. 29
The Principle of Classroom Osmosis: Teaching Teens to Tend to Their 'Tude	p. 45
Doin' the Standards-Based Hip-Hop Thing: Teaching Teens to Be Tenacious	p. 63
The Secret Sauce: Teaching Teens That Education Pays	p. 93
Making the Mix Match: Teaching Teens to Go Where Their Inner Fire Burns	p. 123
Preparing for the Unpreparable: Teaching Teens to Take Ownership	p. 141
Because You Just Never Know: Teaching Teens to Seek Excellence	p. 157
Appendices	p. 181
The Physical Classroom as a Living, Breathing Collage	p. 182
Three Things Teens Can Do to Have a Great School Year	p. 184
Back-to-School-Night Tips to Pass Along to Parents	p. 186
Getting Teens to Recognize the Wheres and Whens of Appropriate Language	p. 188
The Spice in the Secret Sauce	p. 191
Getting Teens to Discover Their Own Strengths: The Seven Intelligences	p. 193
No-Fail Books for Teens	p. 196
On Writing	p. 198
Six Tips for Teens to Avoid a Life of Poverty	p. 201
My "Come See Me" Policy	p. 204
References	p. 205
Letter to Lynwood	p. 207
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