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Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains,   ISBN:9780787974718

     
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Binding: Paperback
Release Date: August 2005
List Price: $24.95

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ISBN-13: 9780787974718
ISBN-10: 0787974714
Author: LouAnne Johnson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary:

From seating plans to Shakespeare, Teaching Outside the Box offers practical strategies that will help both new teachers and seasoned veterans create dynamic classroom environments where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching. This indispensable book is filled with no-nonsense advice, checklists, and handouts as well as

  • A step-by-step plan to make the first week of school a success
  • Approaches for creating a positive discipline plan
  • Methods for motivating students, especially reluctant readers
  • Strategies for successful classroom management
  • Suggestions for creating and grading student portfolios

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Average Customer Rating: Score = 4.5 Score = 4.5 Score = 4.5 Score = 4.5 Score = 4.5

The only teaching book you will need
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As a high school English teacher, I have read a lot of teaching books designed to help out with discipline, motivation and organization, but this book tops my list. It is unlike other "handbooks" in that it comes straight from the heart: the author`s passion for her students shows on every page and the advice and techniques she offers are down-to-earth and useful every day. It offers templates, which are great both for first year and seasoned teachers alike, and many more useful ideas to use in and out of the classroom. I have to say, during my first year of teaching, my desk and files contained mostly pages from this book!

Perhaps the biggest advantage of this book for me, however, was the feeling that it leaves you with - not all teachers still have the spark or passion for their students that they had on day one of their teacher`s training... this book helps to remind us how important it is to keep that passion every day while in the classroom.

You can't do everything...
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but you can do many of these in your class. While geared more toward an English class (the author does teach English, after all), many of the ideas and strategies can be used by other teachers. The author focuses on organization and behavior management, which is sorely needed in classrooms today. She gives real world examples that, if done right, have a wonderful effect on the classroom environment.
Unfortunately, there are so MANY tips, the teacher reading this may feel overwhelmed and discouraged from trying any of the tips. My advice is to pick a few strategies and use them in class. Then, start to build upon the foundation and you will see some changes in the classroom attitude and environment.
Overall, the book is a good resource especially for secondary teachers.

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As other reviews have said, this is a good book for a new teacher. As an experienced teacher, I didn't find that much useful. I did find a couple of approaches I hadn't thought of (assignments for rude people, for example) as well as some ideas for portfolios. Overall, I didn't find much in the book I haven't read or heard elsewhere.

When dealing with problem students, she always talked about calling security if things got to the point where the student had to be removed from class. We don't have security at our school. While we have problems, our problems don't come anywhere near the problems she had to face.

It's not a bad book. In fact, I plan on giving my copy to my language arts team member who is entering her second year. The book really was not what I was looking for.

a good read but neither really useful for me and I can't say I share all the ideas expressed
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There are good and interesting things in this book but there are also many opinions on teaching which may appear a bit shocking to the usual (non extraordinary) teacher on the block.
This book will certainly not teach you how tos, so do not expect this but it shows one experience of teaching from one person only. It is still quite interesting to read. Maybe you can plan on following the example Johnson is provided you have no private life, and especially no children. I, personnally, spend a lot of time working for the kids in my classes but my students come way behind my family and my son's interests, one of them being my availability. People without a family hardly know the importance it has in someone's life and work shall remain at its due place: providing for the family. Let the people who have no family throw themselves under work, live to work... Teaching is a job, like any other job, in spite of what some would like us to believe. I don't think one should consider that work as SOOOOOOO important either. We as teachers are no gods!!! So if you share my views on this, you'll certainly find some parts of this book a bit provocative and full of spite.
And yet it is worth three stars AND worth reading.

The Art of Empathy
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"Teaching Outside the Box" deals with what is at the heart of all great teaching and learning. Empathy. Patience. Tolerance. There have always been two schools of thought when it comes to dealing with under-supported kids. There is the path of swift and immediate justice. In short, the kids must pay. The must pay, yet again, for coming from tough homes or crumbling neighborhoods. They must succumb to a foreign value system when entering the classroom with little or no background knowledge of what great potential and possibility life can hold for them. And teachers who see themselves as "tough" break their already broken spirits down further. There is another path, though. It suggests that the greater respect and love you give children, the more you get back. This one, however, just takes longer. But it is well worth the wait. "Teaching Outside the Box" comes from this school of thought. And it represents it very well. It is a must-read for any teacher who feels they were called to the profession; who feel they are in those classrooms not simply to teach, but to alter the course of young lives. It should be mandatory reading for all who work with children.

Chris Bowen
Author of "Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom".

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