Transparent Teaching of Adolescents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1Understanding and Visualizing the Ideal Class
Chapter 2Who are You, Anyway?
Chapter 3How You Convey Persona
Chapter 4Your Classroom Management Begins Now
Chapter 5Making Thematic Lemonade from Cloned Lemons
Chapter 6Birds, Bees, Procedures, and DisciplineChapter 7In the Eye of the Pre-Service Storm
Chapter 8Judgment Day
Chapter 9The First Week
Chapter 10Learning v. Teaching
Chapter 11Sticking to Your Rule and Procedures
Chapter 12A Class of Thinkers: Socrates in Action
Chapter 13Creating and Using Teacher Evaluations
Chapter 14We are Such Stuff as Grades are Made on
Chapter 15Final Approach and Landing
Chapter 16 Teacher Triage and Final Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

In over twenty years of working with new teachers, I’ve reviewed many books written to describe how to teach successfully. These books, even those that tell stories about the students, rarely include the real voices of students. As a result, for too many new teachers, the students are abstracts – not real.

In this book, real students speak and give new teachers, even veteran teachers, and insights into how to create a classroom that works for both students and teachers. Kids need to be heard and listened to before a teacher can be successful. This book is a must-read for first year teachers or teachers who want to reexamine their teaching practices.