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The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills
The Skillful Teacher Building Your Teaching Skills Author:Jon Saphier, Robert Gower, Mary Ann Haley-Speca Of all the things that are essential to high performing schools, nothing is more important than the teacher and what that person knows, believes and can do. A teacher's skill makes a difference in student performance, not only in achievement scores, but also in students sense of fulfillment in school and their feelings of well-being. — Twenty cha... more »pters capture a blend of research and practitioner-developed approaches for using the research in the classroom. Each chapter lays out a known repertoire of strategies to help teachers fulfill a particular kind of mission from the spiritual imperative of communicating high expectations to the abstract challenge of planning lessons.« less
Sue P. reviewed The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills on
I found this book to be extremely helpful. The book corresponds closely to the professional development class, providing suggestions that can be implemented in the classroom immediately.