- ISBN13: 9780787974718
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Product Description
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 … More >>
Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains
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#1 by Karen R. Avery on April 6, 2010 - 11:30 am
The book arrived in excellent condition very promptly. I would use this person again.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by H. Nolwenn on April 6, 2010 - 12:53 pm
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Interplanetary Funksmanship on April 6, 2010 - 1:47 pm
I used to teach at a Catholic preparatory school, and I must admit: It is difficult as hell teaching inside the box. First of all, your range of motion is very much limited, and I got a rash from the corrugated cardboard flap smacking me underneath my chin.
That, and I had to shimmy a lot to prevent toppling myself over, when my knees went crashing against the box wall.
From then on, I vowed to teach outside the box!
I now teach while wrapped in a bubble mailer.
This book is much better than “Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire.” I tried doing that, too, but I kept setting off the sprinkler system, and too many ceiling tiles came crashing down on my head as a result.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by New Graduate on April 6, 2010 - 2:40 pm
This book was just what I needed to begin teaching in the classroom. I am trying to be one of those teachers who do more than just “stand up in the front of the classroom and lecture all day”. Great read!
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Sarah M. on April 6, 2010 - 5:07 pm
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.
Rating: 5 / 5