Teaching Is an Art

`Teaching Is an Art can help new teachers adjust more smoothly into the education profession and can provide new ideas and insights for veteran teachers' - John Thompson, Assistant Principal, El Camino High School, South San Francisco, CA The author draws upon his 27 years of teaching experience to provide student teachers and new teachers with practical information that isn't always taught in teacher education courses. He includes games, book recommendations, specific lesson plans and straightforward, humorous advice on all aspects of teaching. Teaching ability, wisdom, and fervor are not inborn; teachers can be taught elements of their art. The book covers 82 essential topics (including cooperative learning, communicating with parents, staff meetings, testing, portfolios, and many more) in a reader-friendly style, with easy-to-follow lists, examples, and suggested resources.

Preface
About the Author
The Art of Teaching
Assessment
Back-to-School Night
Books
Calculators
Career Path
Cheating
Class Management
Classroom Talk
Colleagues
Computers
Confidence
Contests
Cooperative Learning
Curriculum
Discipline
Einstein Points
Field Trips
First Day of School
First Week of School
Games
Getting Along
Getting Out More
Grades
Guest Speakers
Homework
How to Become Hated
Improvise
Individual Needs
Jobs in the Classroom
Knowledge
Last Days of School
Learning Is a Process
Lesson Plans
Lies
Making Yourself Accessible
Media
Mentoring
Mistakes
Modeling
Movies About Teachers
New Students
New Stuff and Neat Stuff
New Teacher
Nonverbal Communication
Openers
Organizing for Success
Parents
Photocopying
Pizzazz
Portfolios
Power in the Classroom
Principals
Principles
Quotations in the Classroom
Recognizing Students
Respect
Room Environment
Rules
School Reform
Special Education
Staff Meetings
Standards
Substitute Teachers
Support Personnel
Talking to Parents
Talking to Students
Teacher Evaluation
Teaching: A Look Back
Teaching Teachers to Teach
Team Teaching
Tests
Textbooks
"That-s a Shame!"
"This Is Boring!" and Other Ego Traps
Timing
Units of Study
Veterans and Rookies
Videos in the Classroom
Why You Should Not Teach
Why You Should Teach
Zeal
Index