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    Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients
    Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients
    Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients
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    Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients

    By Anita Moultrie Turner

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    In this well-seasoned book, charismatic educator Anita Moultrie Turner shows new teachers, veteran teachers, and staff developers how to blend 11 essential ingredients into effective and productive classrooms where all students can succeed. Easy to read and hard to put down, this Recipe for Great Teaching features:

    - Classroom stories, quotations, and tasty servings of educational wit and wisdom
    - Strategies for building effective learning environments
    - Techniques for successful curriculum planning
    - Methods for engaging all students in learning
    - Ways of working with colleagues and the community

    This inspiring resource offers enticing and delicious ways to spice up your teaching and your students' learning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateMay 26, 2015
    ISBN9781632209832
    Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients

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      Book preview

      Recipe for Great Teaching - Anita Moultrie Turner

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      Copyright © 2007 by Corwin Press

      First Skyhorse Publishing edition 2015

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

      Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or [email protected].

      Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

      Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-567-4

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-983-2

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Foreword by Andrea Maxie

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Ingredient 1: Passion and Compassion: The Power of a Great Teacher

      Love Yourself: Leaving a Powerful Impact on Young Minds

      You Are a Role Model

      Love Your Students: Engaging the Potential in Each Student

      Love the Profession of Teaching

      The Power of One: Encouraging Academic Excellence

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 2: Communication: An Essential Ingredient

      The Educator: 25 Not 5

      No Favoritism: No Teacher’s Pet

      Nonverbal Messages

      Call Home: Open Communication With Parents

      Refrain From Making Any Value Judgments!

      Parent Conferences

      True Story 1

      Lunchroom Conversations

      The Students: Factors Influencing Effective Oral Communication

      Standard-English Acquisition

      True Story 2

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 3: Praise and Self-Esteem: A Spoonful of Honey

      Reinforcing the Positive Attributes of Students

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 4: Respect and Self-Respect: Marinating Positive Relationships

      Maintaining Respectful Behavior in the Classroom

      Teachers Can Model Respect and Self-Respect

      True Story 1

      True Story 2

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 5: Classroom Environment: An Equitable Dining Room

      Create a Warm and Trusting Community of Learners

      Your Classroom Belongs to Everyone

      Your Classroom Is a Multisensory Environment

      Seating Arrangements and Student Roles Influence the Environment

      Respect Is the Dish of the Day … Every Day

      It’s a Shame to Waste … Anything!

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 6: Classroom Management: A Great Teacher Is the Master Chef

      Set Clear Guidelines, Rules, and Procedures

      Ingredients for Running an Effective Classroom

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 7: Discipline: Making Sure the Cake Rises

      Who Is in Control of Your Classroom?

      Be Fair and Consistent

      Key Points to Remember

      Leadership Opportunities Diminish Disciplinary Challenges

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 8: Organizational Skills: Celebrating Successful Recipes

      Purchasing Notebook Materials

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 9: Real-Life Skills: Cuisine for Life Beyond the Classroom

      Integrating Real-Life Skills Across the Curriculum

      Parent Involvement

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 10: The Whole Dinner: Collaboration and Equity

      Promoting Staff Involvement

      Promoting Parental Involvement

      Promoting Student Involvement

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Ingredient 11: Welcome to the Table

      Fixings for a Great Teacher

      True Story

      Extra Seasoning

      Savory Morsel

      Reflection Menu

      If You Like This Ingredient, You’ll Also Like …

      Bibliography

      Recommended Reading

      Index

      Foreword

      Many years ago, I had the honor of working with a team of talented teachers to build an innovative global studies curriculum. Our work together allowed us to enter each other’s workplaces—the public school and the university—as we struggled with new ideas and concepts and their meaning for teaching, learning, and schooling. Though our focus was curriculum, we learned that this could never be separate from our beliefs about good teaching and powerful learning. Indeed, we saw good teaching as the centerpiece of student learning. For all of us, good teaching mattered. And one of us has captured that in Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients.

      Anita Moultrie Turner probes the science and art of pedagogy as she shares her professional wisdom, personal stories of teaching, passion for excellence, and sound knowledge base about teacher effectiveness. We are privileged to enter the thinking of a great teacher, to see how she skillfully and artfully weaves together her relationship with students, knowledge of pedagogy, and professional dispositions. Whether beginning teacher or seasoned veteran, all of us can learn from the practice of teaching illustrated throughout this book.

      Early on, the book grounds us in appropriate dispositions about students and the work of teaching. From there, we are taken through the complexities of teaching, including knowledge of students, strategies for building effective learning environments, techniques for successful curriculum planning, methods for engaging all students in learning, and ways of working with colleagues and the community. We are treated to the special tips that a gifted professional can offer. We are dazzled by the enthusiasm that an exemplary teacher exudes. Ultimately, we are challenged to reflect on our own work.

      Recipe for Great Teaching: 11 Essential Ingredients is a learning tool that honors the dignity of teaching and the teaching profession.

      Andrea Maxie, PhD

      Professor of Education

      California State University, Los Angeles

      Preface

      Great is defined as powerful, excellent, skilled, and influential. When I use this word throughout the text, I am absolutely convinced that a great teacher has the capacity to execute every trait as defined to make a lifelong impact on the lives of his or her students.

      Teaching is not an easy profession. Being a great teacher involves many factors, which, when combined correctly, result in a highly effective classroom and productive students. Each of the ingredients listed in this book is essential to achieving the goal of being a great teacher, but the recipe for excellent teaching requires the right mixture of all the ingredients.

      Students come to the classroom with a variety of skills, talents, challenges, and experiences. Teachers come to the classroom only after navigating their way through an extraordinary number of school, district, and state policies; state-adopted textbooks; mandated reading and math programs; inclusion requirements; high-stakes standardized tests; standards-based instructional programs; and administrative pressures. Teaching is obviously not a piece of cake.

      The true test of great classroom learning has to start with the teacher as chef: setting out the ingredients on the table, measuring the value of each, and determining daily how best to serve it up to meet the unique and individual academic, social, emotional, and moral needs of each student.

      This effort requires ongoing reflection by the teacher to determine how to season each dish to suit each student’s taste. A great teacher knows that the classroom is not a cattle call where everyone gets the same information in the same way at the same time. What works for one child may not work for the next. Instead, a pinch of this and a dash of that will allow students to experience a different flavor for each lesson, appropriate to the student’s individual palate of intelligences, strengths, and learning modalities.

      This book is not a cookbook or encyclopedia that answers every question for every teacher. But it is an opportunity for you to visit the workplace and go inside the heart and mind of a seasoned teacher who heard a call to greatness in the classroom and successfully mastered the art of creating a learning environment in which students experienced a nourishing and well-balanced academic

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