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    The Art of Effective Teaching
    The Art of Effective Teaching
    The Art of Effective Teaching
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    The Art of Effective Teaching

    By Gunnar Stevenson

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    Gain mental fortitude and unique skills to become an effective teacher.


    Do you feel tense, drained, and overwhelmed by the changed teaching demands?

    Whether you are a teacher by profession or because of the world's current pressure, you need to learn to navigate this challenge without getting drained emotionally. 

    If you feel like you lack the resources and support to handle the burdens of teaching, read this book. It provides simple steps to help you show up the best possible way as a teacher, no matter if you do it in your classroom, through Zoom, or in your kitchen. 

    Parents, teachers, educators, and students find themselves in a unique situation because of the pandemic. Gunnar "Gun" Stevenson—a recently retired teacher, lecturer, and avid social science researcher—gives hands-on advice to learn—or relearn—the best teaching practices tailored for today's needs and beyond.
    This is not your ordinary teaching book. It is a success roadmap sharing modern, student-centered approaches to provide an outstanding education for everyone, from the very young to adult learners. You'll learn techniques that help you become more empathetic and effective in understanding your students' needs. Discover the secrets of creating a happy and fulfilling student-teacher relationship—even with problem students. 

    Based on the latest research and drawing on many educators' experience, you will learn simple, actionable strategies that will enhance your teaching skills and boost your ability to motivate, inspire, and empower your students.

    Trigger a strong intrinsic desire to listen, learn, and behave within each student.


    - Learn to teach effortlessly as a parent.
    - Build a good, influential relationship with your students.
    - Become a more confident, calm, and successful teacher. 
     

    Make a lasting impact on your students, your community, and your work environment.


    - Build behavior-changing rapport with even the most difficult students. 
    - Learn when and how to praise in a character- and motivation-building way. 
    - Read tips and a case study on how to deliver a difficult message to parents.

    Drawing upon principles of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, and personal experiences, The Art of Effective Teaching will help you develop skills that give your students an unshakeable sense of confidence, motivation, and purpose. Learn how to take a fresh approach to the challenges of teaching!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGunnar Stevenson
    Release dateDec 10, 2020
    ISBN9781393815112
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      The Art of Effective Teaching - Gunnar Stevenson

      The Art of Effective Teaching

      The Art of Effective Teaching

      Balance Different Learning Needs. Communicate with Clarity. Motivate, Engage, and Empower.

      Gunnar Stevenson

      Gunnar Stevenson

      Copyright © 2020 by Gunnar Stevenson

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2020

      www.gunstevenson.com

      [email protected]

      Contents

      A Special Thanks

      Introduction

      1. What Makes a Good Teacher

      2. What Motivates Students?

      3. Clear Communication

      4. How to Explain Content Well

      5. Active Learning

      6. Knowledge Application for Lasting Learning

      7. Giving Constructive Feedback

      8. Coping with Difficult Students

      Conclusion

      About the Author

      Citations

      Notes

      A Special Thanks

      Thank you so much for purchasing my book! I hope you will enjoy the learning journey we’re about to embark on!

      To show you my gratitude, I created a FREE downloadable booklet about the three main teaching theories. These theories are the pillar on which modern education lies, therefore they contain essential knowledge for aspiring teachers.

      Click HERE to download your FREE Essential Teaching Theories Booklet!

      Introduction

      Back when I was just starting out as an assistant professor, I made a pretty significant error on the syllabus for the course I was teaching. I had arranged the course grading in a way that students earned points for each assignment, and at the end of the semester, everyone would receive a letter grade based on how many points they had earned. Math has never been my strong suit, and I don’t pretend to find complicated formulas and equations easy. (Making this confession to you as a former engineer requires some courage.) The truth is, I should have caught this very simple addition error on my syllabus. Somehow, I had so many assignments and quizzes, students were able to acquire enough points prior to the end of term to earn As and Bs for the course without completing the final examination. Some exceptional students had even been able to stop completing assignments altogether in the final month of the semester.

      As a result of my calculation error, many students who crossed the threshold of the grade they wanted stopped coming to class, so attendance in my course dwindled. There were fewer and fewer students each class period, and only those students who struggled and still needed points to get an A would come. For the final test only the worst performers showed up. If I’m trying to be an optimist here, I could argue that due to this error I could devote more time to the low-performing students. But the reality was, losing out on the brighter students driving much of the in-class participation had a major negative impact. Class sessions really benefitted from participation from both high- and low-achieving groups of students.

      It was clear that the misjudgment in grading calculation was mine, and that I had created more assignments for my class, but not gone back to the points required to earn a particular letter grade and adjusted those numbers accordingly. I learned a lesson thanks to this experience; ever since then I double and triple-checked my syllabi to ensure I didn’t lose half the class at the end of a semester, and docked points for students who missed class.

      This was the beginning of an ongoing list of information I have learned over my many years of teaching. But not the last. Over time, my list of notes became a resource I used many times during my career and essentially self-taught myself how to teach effectively. That ominous semester I learned another important lesson. My classes were not interesting and engaging enough for my students to attend them despite already earning a top grade. There was work to be done in that department, too. What did I do wrong? How could I make my classes more captivating? How could I trigger passion in the hearts of my students about a subject they didn’t naturally feel strongly about? I took these questions very seriously over the course of the years. When I retired, I was blessed to receive an acknowledgement for being one of the teachers with the highest class attendance.

      This brings us to the purpose of this book, which is to help anyone tap into the resources and techniques I have learned over my career and show others how to develop their teaching abilities and apply them in virtually any setting.

      Nearly all parents in the US, Canada, and Europe have been forced to become teachers in one way or another. Pre-COVID19, the most parents had to do was help their children with homework, explain difficult concepts and review multiplication tables. Some parents went as far as to teach through practical lessons such as explaining the chemical reactions that occur in baking, for instance. In this situation, a parent might decide to bake a few cakes, then select baking soda as a leavening agent for one and an equal amount of baking powder as the leavening ingredient for the other. When the cakes have fully cooked, the parent and child will compare the differences in the cakes and explain the chemical reactions.

      The dynamic of teaching and how and where children learn has changed dramatically in a post-COVID19 world. Many schools, K-12 and universities, have opted to teach online, and that has had both positive and negative outcomes. Many parents have become de facto teachers in the wake of COVID, which puts an extra burden on the top of an already impossible situation. This has impacted my own family, as my youngest grandchild started third grade this year. I am saddened to say he hates it. Much of his learning takes place with little to no social interaction, and because his lessons are online, he has few tactile experiences that allow him to learn concepts in ways other than video lecture. Luckily, teaching is my passion and my recent retirement means I can help create a variety of lessons to enhance his schoolteacher’s assignments. Plus, it’s just much more fun to learn fractions with the broken segments of a Hershey’s Chocolate Bar, since you get to snack on the pieces when you’re done.

      Whether you are a parent who has been thrust into learning new math in an effort to teach your children, are a dedicated homeschooler, or someone who works in organizational development at your company, training staff on new equipment or policies or giving professional development workshops, this book is designed to help you become a more engaged and effective teacher. Zoom is an amazing service that has enabled many people to both teach and work from home, but it has its limitations. There are fewer opportunities for group work and brainstorming. Tuning out of a meeting and working on other tasks is far too easy, especially when a participant turns off his or her microphone.

      The lesson I learned as a young professor about triple-checking my syllabi for errors is but one of many lessons I have been taught in all my years of teaching. I aim to share all I have learned with

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