It's All About People Skills

Surviving Challenges in the Classroom

Jerry Boyle

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2011
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610486118
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Teaching, like many service professions, requires the appropriate interpersonal skills. Although academic expertise is, and always will be, the foundation of instruction, educators must be able to translate their knowledge both affectively and effectively in order to better inform their students. It's All About People Skills provides teachers with information upon which they that can improve themselves in the classroom, calling to attention the necessity for interpersonal skills in order be successful in front of the classroom. Offering educators 'print-to-practice' instructional strategies, models of classroom management plans, and planning modules, It's All About People Skills will not only improve teachers' instructional delivery, and therefore engage more students in a positive school culture, but will also prepare teachers to meet the challenges of contemporary schooling—such as adapting to technology, working with home-schooled children, and addressing school violence.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 The Nature of Effective Teaching
• 2 People Skills: Foundation of Effective Teaching
• 3 Managing to Teach: Print-to-Practice Strategies
• 4 The Classroom Management Plan: Bringing It All Together
• 5 The Home-School Connection
• 6 Using Surveys
• 7 Meeting the Challenge
• 8 Engaging Students in Learning
• 9 Creating a Positive School Culture
• 10 The Effect of Poverty on Teaching and Learning
• 11 Time for Reflection: Putting Your Thoughts into Writing
• 12 Summary and Conclusion
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments