Generating Tact and Flow for Effective Teaching and Learning

Generating Tact and Flow for Effective Teaching and Learning
Author: Susanna M. Steeg Thornhill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000227448

This book draws from and analyzes teachers’ and students’ stories of great classes in order to promote teachers’ development of pedagogical tact and to encourage flow states for students. Taken together, these theoretical lenses—pedagogical tact and flow—provide a valuable framework for understanding and motivating classroom engagement. As the authors suggest, tactful teachers are more likely to see their students in flow than teachers who struggle with basic classroom routines and practices. Grounded in narrative research, and written for pre-service teachers, the book offers strategies for replicating these first-hand accounts of peak classroom teaching and learning.

Generating Tact and Flow for Effective Teaching and Learning

Generating Tact and Flow for Effective Teaching and Learning
Author: Susanna M. Steeg Thornhill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781003111306

"This book draws from and analyzes teachers' and students' stories of great classes in order to promote teachers' development of pedagogical tact and to encourage flow states for students. Taken together, these theoretical lenses-pedagogical tact and flow-provide a valuable framework for understanding and motivating classroom engagement. As the authors suggest, tactful teachers are more likely to see their students in flow than teachers who struggle with basic classroom routines and practices. Grounded in narrative research, and written for pre-service teachers, the book offers strategies for replicating these first-hand accounts of peak classroom teaching and learning"--

Engaging College and University Students

Engaging College and University Students
Author: Ken Badley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2022-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000629325

Engaging College and University Students outlines creative and effective course organization and teaching-learning strategies for higher education courses. By describing specific instructional best practices, rather than addressing general questions about teaching in higher education, the author presents a valuable resource for educators to consult in the moment. The author explores the challenges of engaging students in online settings and draws comparisons with face-to-face strategies of engagement. By organizing the strategies according to course progress, and offering corresponding rubrics for assessment, this guide for instructors offers a solid foundation for an ever-changing teaching and learning landscape.

Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice

Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice
Author: Michelle C. Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000436284

Teaching is hard work. Teaching is rewarding work. An abundance of research on teachers’ mental health, teacher burnout, and attrition in the profession has proven the truth of the first claim. And, without reading a word of academic research, teachers know the truth of the second: there are numerous challenges and complexities involved in this noble profession. Teachers also know the truth of our second claim—that teaching is immensely rewarding work. The editors and authors of Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice: Transforming Teaching Challenges into Opportunities argue that the reciprocities of teaching keep them and countless other teachers in the profession. While teaching is one of the most demanding professions on earth, it is also one of the most rewarding professions. Editors Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley hope readers and teaching colleagues alike will be reminded of the rewards and the unexpected paybacks found in teaching. Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice is offered as a love letter, a "hang-in-there, you’ve got this" message to teacher colleagues everywhere. May readers be reminded that teaching is a calling. The editors invite readers to wrestle with, take courage, and find joyful resilience in the professional challenges named in this book.

The Complexities of Authority in the Classroom

The Complexities of Authority in the Classroom
Author: Ken Badley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000571106

This book argues that democratic classroom management is not a stand-alone issue but is deeply intertwined with classroom climate and requires a thoughtful, grounded understanding of classroom authority. Contributors explore the sources, nature, and extent of teacher authority, as they distinguish authority from authoritarianism, and describe how classroom authority is ultimately a shared endeavor between teachers and students. By drawing on a variety of contexts and perspectives, chapters in this volume contend with the complexities inherent in classroom authority through the lenses of gender, urban versus rural contexts, and within elementary and secondary classrooms.

Dispositions Are a Teacher's Greatest Strength

Dispositions Are a Teacher's Greatest Strength
Author: Michelle C. Hughes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040032346

Dispositions Are a Teacher’s Greatest Strength will fuel and reignite your classroom practice. Focusing on 13 dispositions specific to teaching, this book encourages educators to identify, reflect, and develop their dispositions, attitudes, and self-awareness to flourish in the profession. Emphasizing pedagogical knowledge and skills, this text serves as an affirmation of a teacher’s commitment to challenging, complex and rewarding work. It invites educators to consider what a unique privilege it is to teach—to dive into reading, creating space, and embracing dispositions as a teacher’s greatest strength. Each chapter focuses on one of 13 teaching dispositions—such as curiosity, adaptability, gratitude, resilience, and courage—and offers: definitions and contexts for the disposition of focus; concrete applications for teachers to practice and develop dispositions with reader-friendly examples and practical strategies; a “pause and reflect” section with questions and space for professional reflection. This book serves as a love letter to educators everywhere: teachers in K-12, administrators in K-12, higher education faculty, and pre-service programs and students. Dispositions Are a Teacher’s Greatest Strength reminds teachers of the significant work they do by putting dispositions at the forefront of their daily work.

Pedagogical Tact

Pedagogical Tact
Author: Max van Manen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1315422832

Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators, parents, and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights, active thoughtfulness, and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their lives;-shows how our actions with young people have pedagogically ethical and moral significance;-gives educators back their original vocational motivation and inspiration.

Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships

Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships
Author: Hunter O'Hara
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004445323

Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships: The Way of the Shamanic Teacher (Second Edition) explores the nature of the transcendent teacher learner relationship and precisely how such relationships of warmth, safety, mutual care, mutual respect and mutual trust are developed and maintained.

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
Author: Julie S. Vargas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415526795

Modern classrooms face an increasing population of special needs students and 'regular' students who have behavioural problems. The mission of this book is to show teachers and other human service professionals working in school settings how to employ non-aversive, behaviour analysis principles in classrooms and other school settings.