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Updated Edition of Bestseller

25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

Second Edition
By: Carolyn Orange

Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches!

Written by best-selling author Carolyn Orange, this second edition offers reflective scenarios to help teachers recognize mistakes, learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques, and find better ways to address challenging situations to become more sensitive, effective educators. Each prescription for a better solution is aligned with sound educational theory and based on the author's many years of teaching experience. The book, with updated student and teacher vignettes, is organized into six sections:

  • Discipline 
  • Teacher-student relations 
  • Classroom policy and practices 
  • Classroom management and instruction 
  • Personality and professionalism 
  • Teaching style and behavior

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412937887
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 288
  • Publication date: November 27, 2012

Price: $42.95

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Description

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"This book will make you laugh, make you shake your head in disbelief, and keep you amazed. Most important, this book will help you become a more enlightened and effective educator as you gracefully sidestep difficult situations by remembering the practical lessons within these pages."
—Jennifer Brooks, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Olmos Elementary School, San Antonio, TX

Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches!

All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.

25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author's prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:

  • Discipline
  • Teacher-student relations
  • Classroom policy and practices
  • Classroom management and instruction
  • Personality and professionalism
  • Teaching style and behavior

Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this book's real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.


Key features

  • An updated edition of a popular guide for novice and experienced teachers
  • Helps teachers understand the responses and feelings of their students
  • Shows all teachers how to avoid common mistakes
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Carolyn Orange

Carolyn Orange is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches Psychological Basis of Learning, Learning and Development of the School Age Child, Human Growth and Development, and Psychology of Human Motivation. She has a PhD and Master of Arts degree in Educational Psycho logy from Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harris Stowe State College. She began her teaching career in the St. Louis Public Schools where she taught for a number of years. Her work as an educator has spanned about 25 years. That period includes some time that she worked for two corporations. She has worked as a researcher and educator in a variety of educational settings: elementary, secondary, English as a Second Language (ESL), Montessori, special education, adult education, art, and higher education. She has produced a video on self-regulation and has developed a Self-Regulation Inventory. She has published numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The Journal of Experimental Education, The Roeper Review, Journal of Communi­cations and Minority Issues, The Journal of Black Studies, The NASSP: Curriculum Report, and The High School Journal. In 2001, she was appointed to the review board of the Journal of Communications and Minority Issues. She is on the Board of Directors for the Girl Scout Council of San Antonio. She was included in Who’s Who in the World for 2005; Who’s Who Among American Teachers for 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003; Who’s Who in America 2001, 2002, and 2003/2004. Her current research interests are envirosocial factors that affect student achievement. She is the author of 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them (2000) and Quick Reference Guide to Educational Innovations: xiv FM-Orange.qxd 11/12/2004 4:21 PM Page xv About the Author xv Practices, Programs, Policies and Philosophies (2002). 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them is a bestseller and has gained worldwide popularity. It has been reviewed in India and translated into Thai, Chinese, and Slovenian. She was inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword


Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgments


About the Author


Introduction


Part I. Discipline


1. Mistake 1: Inappropriate Discipline Strategies

2. Mistake 2: Physical Aggression

3. Mistake 3: Purposeful Alienation

4. Mistake 4: Public Ridicule

Part II. Teacher-Student Relations


5. Mistake 5: Favoritism

6. Mistake 6: Physiological Discrimination

7. Mistake 7: Personal Attacks

8. Mistake 8: Inappropriate Teacher-Student Relationships

9. Mistake 9: Deliberate Mistreatment

10. Mistake 10: Racial and Cultural Differences

11. Mistake 11: Humiliation

Part III. Classroom Policies and Practices


12. Mistake 12: Inappropriate Classroom Policies

13. Mistake 13: Inappropriate Toileting Practices

Part IV. Classroom Management and Instruction


14. Mistake 14: Inappropriate Educational Strategies

15. Mistake 15: Inappropriate Assessment

Part V. Personality and Professionalism


16. Mistake 16: Teacher Insensitivity

17. Mistake 17: Academic Shortcomings

18. Mistake 18: Poor Administration

19. Mistake 19: Teacher Reputation

20. Mistake 20: Teacher Misjudgment

Part VI. Teaching Style and Behavior


21. Mistake 21: Teacher Bias or Expectations

22. Mistake 22: Unethical Behavior

23. Mistake 23: False Accusations

24. Mistake 24: Inappropriate Reactions

25. Mistake 25: Sexual Harassment

Part VII. Teacher Confessions of Worst Treatment of a Child: Their Motives and Feelings


Epilogue


References


Index


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