Teaching Tips From Your One–Minute Mentor: Quick and Easy Strategies for Classroom Success - Softcover

Bianco, Arnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787982415 ISBN 13: 9780787982416

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2006

Synopsis

Teaching Tips From Your One–Minute Mentor is a must–have resource, written for new and seasoned teachers. It is filled with essential advice, tested techniques, and reliable methods for achieving classroom success. Designed for the visual learner, all the information is distilled into easily managed lists and illustrated with clever cartoons, diagrams, and thoughtful epigrams. Through its many teacher–friendly illustrations, the book explores common classroom management challenges and provides a wide range of classroom–tested strategy suggestions designed to make classes safe, efficient, and well managed.

About this title

About the Author

Arnie Bianco, M.Ed., was a school principal for twenty–four years, a teacher?for nine years, and an adjunct instructor and teacher supervisor for over seventeen years. He currently serves as a mentor–principal and board member of a charter school in Tucson, Arizona. In addition, he conducts workshops on One–Minute Discipline across the country.

If you need answers to classroom management challenges in a hurry, the book′s easy–to–read format and visual style?facilitate understanding and classroom application in mere minutes. Each of the book′s ten chapters opens with a mindful message, memorable advice, and important topics that are explored within.?The book covers

• The big picture of being a teacher
• Getting to know your students
• Creating a culture of appreciation
• Beginning to teach
• Setting up your classroom
• Staying in charge
• Handling difficult situations
• Enlisting some partners
• Joining the educational team at your school
• Taking care of your personal growth

Teaching Tips From Your One–Minute Mentor guides teachers (working in any type of classroom)?towards?creating and sustaining a structured, constructive, and inspirational classroom environment.

"Arnie Bianco′s practical guide for educators combines the sage wisdom of real world experience with contemporary classroom management strategy. A must–have for any classroom teacher, no matter how many years they have taught."
Kathleen A. Rose, dean of fine arts, language arts, and social sciences division, Hartnell College

"Teaching Tips From Your One–Minute Mentor′s practical, no–nonsense advice reinforces good teaching by providing an easy–to–implement plan of action. High school seniors on their way to a teacher preparation program should keep this book, along with One–Minute Discipline, in their backpack. When the going gets tough, these are the books that will sustain them!"
Marsha A. Miller, director, New Hampshire′s Future Educators Academy

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787982415
• ISBN 13: 9780787982416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144