T.E.T.: Teacher Effectiveness Training - Hardcover

Gordon, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679260803 ISBN 13: 9780679260806

Publisher: David McKay Co, 1974

Synopsis

Step-by-step explanations and applications of principles, methods, and skills pertaining to effective, rewarding pedagogy based on a nonauthoritarian, nonpermissive, and mutually respectful teacher-student relationship

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Gordon is the founder and president of Effectiveness Training, an international educational corporation with network of several thousand specially trained Instructors who teach human relation courses in twenty-five countries.

He is a licensed psychologist, graduating from DePauw University, earning an M.A. from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from University of Chicago, where he later served on the faculty. He is a past president of the California State Psychological Association and a consultant to the 1970 White House Conference on Children.

His book Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is an international bestseller. He is also the author of Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.), P.E.T. in Action and Teacher Effectiveness Training (T.E.T.).

He has been an invited speaker for

From the Inside Flap

of a teacher's interpersonal relationships -- with students, parents and administrators -- directly affects how well they facilitate learning and manage their classrooms. This book describes and illustrates the skills and procedures teachers need in order to foster the cooperation and motivation of students, conduct productive teacher-parent conferences and earn the trust of their colleagues and administrators.

T.E.T. is the textbook for Dr. Gordon's breakthrough training program, which since 1967 has earned college credit for over a hundred thousand teachers in a dozen different countries. The T.E.T. book is also used in a number of teacher training colleges and universities.

In schools, both public and private, teachers and administrators report, "It works" -- reducing disciplinary problems in the classroom, fostering greater involvement of students in the learning process, giving teachers more "time-on-task," and making learning more fun and teaching le

Edition details

• Publisher: David McKay Co
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679260803
• ISBN 13: 9780679260806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 366