25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

By Carolyn M. Orange

Book Overview

"This book will make you laugh, make you shake your head in disbelief, and keep you amazed. Most important, this book will help you become a more enlightened and effective educator as you gracefully sidestep difficult situations by remembering the practical lessons within these pages."
--Jennifer Brooks, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Olmos Elementary School, San Antonio, TX

Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches

All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.

25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author′s prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:

Discipline Teacher-student relations Classroom policy and practices Classroom management and instruction Personality and professionalism Teaching style and behavior

Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this book′s real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412937884
• ISBN13: 9781412937887
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ FOR TEACHERS OF ALL AGES!!

Teaching is said to be one of the most important careers a person can have. Dr. Orange's book uses short scenarios written by her former students give us a chilling look into how easy it is for acedimic trauma to occur. She then uses her years of knowledge and expierence to provide appropiate advice and solutions for teachers faced with these situations. The book is very easy to read and filled with excellent tips and advice on how to be a happy and effective teacher. It's a must read!

A Reflective Opportunity for Teachers

I have been an educator for 15 years. This book is the first to actually identify the mistakes teachers make and how these mistakes "traumatize" students. This book affords teachers the opportunity to become aware of how their words and actions can influence the lives of students. 25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them encouraged me to take a reflective look at myself. This book is a must read for new and veteran teachers.

Every Teacher Needs This Book!

This book is an excellent portrayal of situations that have gone on and continue to happen in our classrooms every day. The mistakes that teachers make have huge effects on our students. This book makes you think about how what you say or do to your students will affect them in the long run. I remember a lot of these insidences happening in school when I was young and nothing was ever done about it. This book now brings those situations into the open and tells ways to avoid them. Every teacher needs to read this book so that they do not make those very same mistakes. I really enjoyed reading this book, there were times when I my eyes got watery just thinking about how the people felt whent hey were kids.This is truly a fantastic book!

A definite must for all teachers!

I absolutely love this book because it is a reality check for all teachers. School districts should really consider using this book for staff development as it reminds us of how having one bad day can forever scar a student. Hats off to Dr. Carolyn Orange for bringing this "taboo" into the light.

Teaching to Teach

This is a must read for anyone planning to teach or is already in the profession. It gives a teacher the one skill that is usually missing, the ability to communicate with all students without alienating them. The scenarios the author present find common ground with most teachers and students. It can be used both professionally and as a staff development workshop. It's readers will gain valuable insight into how to be a more sensitive and effective teacher by analyzing the mistakes of other teachers.