The Skillful Teacher

Document Outline

• The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom, Second Edition
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1: Experiencing Teaching
    • Muddling Through as the Honorable Response to Uncertainty
    • Teaching as White-Water Rafting
    • Growing into the Truth of Teaching
  • Chapter 2: The Core Assumptions of Skillful Teaching
    • Assumption 1: Skillful Teaching Is Whatever Helps Students Learn
    • Assumption 2: Skillful Teachers Adopt a Critically Reflective Stance Towards Their Practice
    • Assumption 3: The Most Important Knowledge Skillful Teachers Need to Do Good Work Is a Constant Awareness of How Students Are Experiencing Their Learning and Perceiving Teachers’ Actions
    • Treating Students As Adults
  • Chapter 3: Understanding Our Classrooms
    • The One-Minute Paper
    • The Muddiest Point
    • The Learning Audit
    • Student Learning Journals
    • The Critical Incident Questionnaire
  • Chapter 4: What Students Value in Teachers
    • Common Indicators of Credibility
    • Common Indicators of Authenticity
    • A Final Thought
  • Chapter 5: Understanding and Responding to the Emotions of Learning
    • Impostorship
    • Cultural Suicide
    • Lost Innocence
    • Roadrunning
    • A Final Comment
  • Chapter 6: Lecturing Creatively
    • Be Clear About Why We Lecture
    • Characteristics of Helpful Lectures
  • Chapter 7: Preparing Students for Discussion
    • When to Use Discussion
    • Getting Discussions Started
    • Guided Discussion
  • Chapter 8: Getting Students to Participate in Discussion
    • What Stops Students from Participating in Discussion?
    • Grading for Participation
    • Scaffolding Discussion Participation Through Structured Conversation
  • Chapter 9: Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
    • Gauging Diversity
    • Team Teaching
    • Mixing Student Groups
    • Mixing Modalities
  • Chapter 10: Giving Helpful Evaluations
    • Helpful and Unhelpful Evaluations
    • Characteristics of Helpful Evaluations
    • Improving Your Evaluations
  • Chapter 11: Teaching Online
    • Familiarizing Ourselves with the Online Experience
    • Skillful Teaching Online
    • Creating Participatory Discussion Online
    • Keeping Online Discussion Focused
    • Organizing the Online Course for Discussion
    • Concerns About Online Teaching and Learning
  • Chapter 12: Responding to Resistance
    • Understanding Resistance to Learning
    • Responding to Resistance
  • Chapter 13: Dealing with the Politics of Teaching
    • The Political Purposes of Teaching
    • Surviving Politically
  • Chapter 14: Surviving Emotionally
    • Developing a Working Philosophy of Teaching
    • Forming a Supportive Network
    • Fifteen Maxims of Skillful Teaching
  • Bibliography
  • Index