ERIC Number: ED426961
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: 119
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Notes from the Trenches.
Palumbo, Anthony
This manual, written by a classroom practitioner, addresses concerns frequently voiced by beginning teachers. It is designed as a practical approach to what works in the classroom. The chapters focus on the following issues: Classroom Management; Classroom Discipline (student behavior, easy ways to establish control, major issues, calling home, and insubordinate behavior); Lesson Plans; Markbooks (managing time, markbooks, and marking policy); Why Teach? (a changing profession); Questions (involving students in answering questions); What to Teach?; Homework (homework, notebooks, quizzes, classroom decorations as instructional devices); Can Johnny Read That?; Varying the Presentation; What Works? (effective teaching methods); and Other Subject Methods. (SM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading, Homework, Lesson Plans, Questioning Techniques, Readability, Reading Skills, Student Behavior, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Expectations of Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Teachers
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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