Great Teaching
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"Great Teaching offers a compass for teachers seeking direction, reorientation, and renewal. DiGiulio strips away the distractions and has put together an exceedingly readable, valuable, and affirming guide for preservice and classroom teachers to reflect upon their practice."
Alan Canestrari, Assistant Professor of Education
Roger Williams University
Discover what makes you a great teacher--and what makes teaching great!
Did you know that you are a great teacher? Amid the parents and the paperwork, the assessments and accountability, the evaluations and the e-mail, many teachers can't find time to reflect on, much less assess, their own teaching. This concise guide brings teaching back to its fundamental roots, proving that how you teach is just as important as what you teach.
Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great teachers--like caring, enthusiasm, clarity, and questioning--and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves. Drawing on his 33 years of experience, DiGiulio has developed specific techniques for:
- Assessing yourself and identifying your strengths
- Distilling your workload to the essentials and fundamentals
- Learning from your colleagues and planning cooperatively
- Using an 8-step framework to redefine your view of teaching
Get back to basics, realize that less is more, and flourish as you develop the skills and qualities that make you the great teacher that you are!
Contents
Preface
- What This Book Is, and Is Not
- A Word About Schools
- And a Word About Teachers
Reviewer Acknowledgments
Reviewer Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Introduction: What Makes a Skillful, Caring Teacher?
- Great Teaching is Still Great Teaching (And It's the Teaching that Matters Most!)
- "But we hardly have the time!"
- First Self Assessment: What Can be Tossed, What Must be Kept
- The Complete Teacher: Knowledge and Skills and Qualities
- Key Teacher Skills and Qualities
2. Key Teacher Skills: What Teachers Do
- Key Teacher Skills, Prior to Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, While Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, After Teaching
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Skills Self-Assessment
3. Key Teacher Qualities: How Teachers Do It
- Key Teacher Quality #1--Efficacy
- Key Teacher Quality #2--Caring
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Qualities Self-Assessment
4. Summary and Conclusion: Beyond Great to Memorable
- Summary of Skills and Qualities Checklists
- Plans of Action
- Follow-up Assessment
- Conclusion
Resources
- Guidelines for student success in academics and socialization: A school-wide qualitative assessment
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"Great Teaching offers a compass for teachers seeking direction, reorientation, and renewal. DiGiulio strips away the distractions and has put together an exceedingly readable, valuable, and affirming guide for preservice and classroom teachers to reflect upon their practice."
Alan Canestrari, Assistant Professor of Education
Roger Williams University
Discover what makes you a great teacher--and what makes teaching great!
Did you know that you are a great teacher? Amid the parents and the paperwork, the assessments and accountability, the evaluations and the e-mail, many teachers can't find time to reflect on, much less assess, their own teaching. This concise guide brings teaching back to its fundamental roots, proving that how you teach is just as important as what you teach.
Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great teachers--like caring, enthusiasm, clarity, and questioning--and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves. Drawing on his 33 years of experience, DiGiulio has developed specific techniques for:
- Assessing yourself and identifying your strengths
- Distilling your workload to the essentials and fundamentals
- Learning from your colleagues and planning cooperatively
- Using an 8-step framework to redefine your view of teaching
Get back to basics, realize that less is more, and flourish as you develop the skills and qualities that make you the great teacher that you are!
Contents
Preface
- What This Book Is, and Is Not
- A Word About Schools
- And a Word About Teachers
Reviewer Acknowledgments
Reviewer Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Introduction: What Makes a Skillful, Caring Teacher?
- Great Teaching is Still Great Teaching (And It's the Teaching that Matters Most!)
- "But we hardly have the time!"
- First Self Assessment: What Can be Tossed, What Must be Kept
- The Complete Teacher: Knowledge and Skills and Qualities
- Key Teacher Skills and Qualities
2. Key Teacher Skills: What Teachers Do
- Key Teacher Skills, Prior to Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, While Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, After Teaching
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Skills Self-Assessment
3. Key Teacher Qualities: How Teachers Do It
- Key Teacher Quality #1--Efficacy
- Key Teacher Quality #2--Caring
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Qualities Self-Assessment
4. Summary and Conclusion: Beyond Great to Memorable
- Summary of Skills and Qualities Checklists
- Plans of Action
- Follow-up Assessment
- Conclusion
Resources
- Guidelines for student success in academics and socialization: A school-wide qualitative assessment
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
April 2004 | 120 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9780761988328 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781483360942 | $35.00 |
"Great Teaching offers a compass for teachers seeking direction, reorientation, and renewal. DiGiulio strips away the distractions and has put together an exceedingly readable, valuable, and affirming guide for preservice and classroom teachers to reflect upon their practice."
Alan Canestrari, Assistant Professor of Education
Roger Williams University
Discover what makes you a great teacher--and what makes teaching great!
Did you know that you are a great teacher? Amid the parents and the paperwork, the assessments and accountability, the evaluations and the e-mail, many teachers can't find time to reflect on, much less assess, their own teaching. This concise guide brings teaching back to its fundamental roots, proving that how you teach is just as important as what you teach.
Great Teaching focuses on the core skills and qualities of great teachers--like caring, enthusiasm, clarity, and questioning--and then shows teachers how to find those skills and qualities within themselves. Drawing on his 33 years of experience, DiGiulio has developed specific techniques for:
- Assessing yourself and identifying your strengths
- Distilling your workload to the essentials and fundamentals
- Learning from your colleagues and planning cooperatively
- Using an 8-step framework to redefine your view of teaching
Get back to basics, realize that less is more, and flourish as you develop the skills and qualities that make you the great teacher that you are!
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- What This Book Is, and Is Not
- A Word About Schools
- And a Word About Teachers
- Reviewer Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Introduction: What Makes a Skillful, Caring Teacher?
- Great Teaching is Still Great Teaching (And It's the Teaching that Matters Most!)
- "But we hardly have the time!"
- First Self Assessment: What Can be Tossed, What Must be Kept
- The Complete Teacher: Knowledge and Skills and Qualities
- Key Teacher Skills and Qualities
- 2. Key Teacher Skills: What Teachers Do
- Key Teacher Skills, Prior to Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, While Teaching
- Key Teacher Skills, After Teaching
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Skills Self-Assessment
- 3. Key Teacher Qualities: How Teachers Do It
- Key Teacher Quality #1--Efficacy
- Key Teacher Quality #2--Caring
- Growing in Teaching: Key Teacher Qualities Self-Assessment
- 4. Summary and Conclusion: Beyond Great to Memorable
- Summary of Skills and Qualities Checklists
- Plans of Action
- Follow-up Assessment
- Conclusion
- Resources
- Guidelines for student success in academics and socialization: A school-wide qualitative assessment
- References
- Index