Mastering the Art of Teaching

Meeting the Challenges of the Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Faceted Tasks of Today’s Classrooms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvSelma Wassermann

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The complexity of what teachers do is incomprehensible to anyone who has not lived the experience. If one examines, in detail, the multi-dimensional, multi-layered, multi-faceted acts that a teacher performs each teaching day, it almost defies belief for it is beyond heroic. Done well, the impact is to influence students for all the days of their lives. Done well, it leaves students altered for the better. It takes a trained observer to perceive and comprehend the various acts, both overt and subtle, that a teacher carries out during the course of a school day.This is the onus of this book – to make explicit the professional tasks of a teacher in today’s fast changing world, where technology is rapidly replacing human interactions, where disinformation is daily fed to a gullible public, where funding and professional resources for schools are never enough, where students come to school carrying physical and emotional burdens that would daunt most adults, where the tasks of teachers are more demanding and more heartbreaking than ever before. How a teacher gives his or her all, and yet, manages to keep at the job without burning out is a significant feature of this book.Not only are these professional tasks identified and explained, but suggestions are offered for how new and practicing teachers may further hone those skills that each task demands. Knowing the tasks is not enough; learning to apply them successfully is the key to becoming that master teacher.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-05
Mått160 x 233 x 18 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor154
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475858648

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Selma Wassermann is professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and holder of the University Award for Teaching Excellence. Her books include Evaluation Without Tears (2020), Teaching in the Age of Disinformation (2018), What’s the Right Thing to Do? (2019), Teaching for Thinking Today (2009), This Teaching Life (2004), The Art of Interactive Teaching (2017) and An Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy (1994).

AcknowledgementsPreface IntroductionScenes from a ClassroomThe Teacher as Decision MakerBeginnings: Some Advice for New TeachersWhat’s Wrong with Teacher Education?Some Advice for “Noo Teechrs”Last WordsThe Professional Tasks of the TeacherThe Development of an Assessment Instrument to Evaluate Teaching CompetenceProfiles of Teaching CompetencyCategories of Teaching CompetencyTeacher as PersonGrowing TeachersBeing Clear About What’s ImportantSharpening Your Problem-Solving SkillsThe Importance of Being RealDeveloping Confidence in SelfTaking Care of YourselfConclusionThe Teacher and The KidsTeacher as DiagnosticianIdentifying Students Showing Extreme Emotional NeedsTeaching Strategies for Dealing with Emotional Needs Identifying Behavior that Relates to Lack of Experience with ThinkingTeaching Strategies for Dealing with Lack of Experience with ThinkingOther Behavior Impediments to LearningConclusionTeacher-Student Interactions It Starts with Listening, Attending and ApprehendingChoosing the Right ResponseBasic Reflective ResponsesResponses that Call for Analysis of IdeasResponses that ChallengeResponses that Address Students’ Expression of FeelingsMastering the Art of Teacher-Student InteractionsConclusionThe Teacher and the CurriculumIT and the CurriculumA Few Examples of Existing School Programs Incorporating ITWhat Can a Teacher Do?Putting the Teaching for Thinking Curriculum Framework into PracticeWhy Do These Students Love School?Evaluation as a Tool for Improving LearningCreating More Effective Assessment ToolsDiagnosing Students’ DifficultiesGiving Evaluative FeedbackStudents’ Self-EvaluationsReporting to ParentsConclusionTeaching as a Courageous ActivityThe Closed Classroom DoorTeachers Who DaredWhat’s the Pay Off?Endpaper: In RetrospectA Personal JourneyAppendix: Profiles of Teaching CompetencyReferencesIndexAbout the Author

In Mastering the Art of Teaching, Wasserman examines what it means to be a master teacher. She details all the professional responsibilities required of teachers in a way that shows new teachers the intricacies of the profession and, at the same time, inspires veteran teachers with the significance of what they do on a daily basis. This is all done with a focus on teacher-student interactions and their effect on student learning, which is grounded in Wasserman’s extensive research…. This volume is both informative and inspirational as the reader is exposed to the stories of teachers who grapple with real classroom situations. Wasserman asks the reader to consider multiple perspectives of common scenarios as she presents a detailed picture of the day-to-day responsibilities and complexities of a teacher's duties. Recommended.