Part 3 - The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills

Kindle Edition, Part 3 of 4: Available as a full book and also in four parts, this "gold standard" textbook now in its sixth edition has been used extensively in many colleges and school districts across the U.S. and in a number of places around the world for studying generic pedagogy aka the Knowledge Base on Teaching. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator, The Skillful Teacher is a unique synthesis of the knowledge base on teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance. It has been deemed as a must for instructional coaches and mentors. The four parts align with the four sections in the hard copy textbook. Each part is packaged with the two introductory chapters.

* Part 3: How to Grow Student Motivation and Effective Effort focuses on the three areas of performance that impact student motivation:
o Chapter 1: Introduction describes the nature of the professional knowledge base on teaching and its key concepts.
o Chapter 2: Teacher Beliefs explores the connection between teacher beliefs about intelligence and children's capacity to learn, including beliefs about learning itself, teachers and teaching, and schools and schooling.
o Chapter 12: Expectations - how teachers communicate high expectations to students, theories about achievement and development, classroom interventions, and the history of the idea of intelligence
o Chapter 13: Personal Relationship Building - how to build good personal relationships with students and make them feel truly known and valued
o Chapter 14: Classroom Climate - how to build a climate of inclusion, risk-taking, and personal efficacy through community and mutual support, instilling confidence and giving students some influence and control over their lives at school