Secrets of Great Teachers

With more than twenty years of hands-on teaching experience, Elisheva Zeffren relishes experimenting with innovative strategies to reshape the learning experience. An educational consultant and high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, she confers closely with principals and faculty, who have welcomed her assistance. A New York state licensed psychologist, Perella Perlstein has a private practice in Brooklyn, New York, and is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Lander College for Women.

• Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPreface1. Finding the “Hot Spots”2. Blending and Broadening Teaching3. Moving Away from Useless Teaching4. Choosing Less to Produce More5. Promoting Discovery6. Blossoming with Bloom7. Giving Homework a Brain8. Employing Visual Aids9. Maximizing Children’s Books10. Implementing Recordings and Video Clips11. Getting Down to the Actual Lesson Plan12. Seeing the Lesson Plan Unfold13. Liberating the Struggling Student14. Cutting Competition15. Pulverizing Prizes16. Purging Pleasing17. Promoting Healthy Independent Thinking18. Cultivating the Critic19. Restocking the Shelves of Our Book Bankrupt Society20. Putting Literacy to the Test21. Testing and Grading Made Easy22. Giving Specific Praise and Constructive CriticismBibliographyIndex

“offers a multidimensional perspective on teaching and emphasizes a variety of strategies that can help improve overall instructional practices... The writing is simple and clear; bullet points keep the reader focused on important ideas throughout. The book offers strategies that can be considered universal and can be applied to a wide range of school subjects in middle schools and high schools.... valuable...recommended”—ARBA.