Part 1 - The Skillful Teacher · Building Your Teaching Skills

Kindle Edition, Part 1 of 4: Available as a full book and also in four parts, this "gold standard" textbook now in its sixth edition has been used extensively in many colleges and school districts across the U.S. and in a number of places around the world for studying generic pedagogy aka the Knowledge Base on Teaching. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator, The Skillful Teacher is a unique synthesis of the knowledge base on teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance. It has been deemed as a must for instructional coaches and mentors. The four parts align with the four sections in the hard copy textbook. Each part is packaged with the two introductory chapters.

Part 1: How to Assure Good Discipline and Classroom Management explores the causes of disruptive or inattentive behaviors and how to deal with them:

o Chapter 1: Introduction describes the nature of the professional knowledge base on teaching and its key concepts.

o Chapter 2: Teacher Beliefs explores the connection between teacher beliefs about intelligence and children's capacity to learn, including beliefs about learning itself, teachers and teaching, and schools and schooling.

o Chapter 3: Attention - foundations of classroom management with a continuum of ways to gain, maintain, and regain student attention

o Chapter 4: Momentum - ways to minimize downtime delays and distractions

o Chapter 5: Space - how to maximize the positive impact of space and furniture in the classroom

o Chapter 6: Time - how to time events and regulate schedules to get the most of productive learning time

o Chapter 7: Routines - classroom routines that serve a variety of purposes and how to clearly communicate them and the standards inherent in them to students

o Chapter 8: Discipline - six specific models of discipline designed to deal with very resistant students and to build a climate of high achievement, personal relationships, and sound instruction