Teaching on Solid Ground: Nuance, Challenge, and Technique for the Emerging Teacher

By Dominic V. Belmonte

Book Overview

Find your footing and step into your future as a grounded teacher

"I put down the book feeling proud to be a teacher."
-Sharon Elin, NBCT
Chickahominy Middle School, Hanover County, VA

"A book I will refer to often, as well as use for the teachers I mentor."
-Patricia Eggers, NBCT
Brown Deer School District, Glendale, WI

"Offers intellect, relevant statistics, human examples, teacher stories, witty analogies, practical solutions, and most of all, hope for those at any point in their teaching career."
-Sarah Earle, NBCT
Hampton High School, VA

Do you feel grounded at the "big desk" or are you still searching for your comfort zone? Join best-selling author Dominic Belmonte as he explores the essentials of instruction, curriculum, and classroom management. Using his trademark humor and encouraging style, and always keeping a clear-eyed focus on the rewards of teaching, the author discusses:

15 ways to master classroom pacing, tone, undertone, mood, and behavior 5 sample lessons using Socratic Seminar, inquiry science, Magic Math Box, and more Reflective approaches to important challenges, including high-stakes tests, bridging the achievement gap, and helping students deal with tragedy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412924634
• ISBN13: 9781412924634
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An overall "reader friendly" reference and guide for becoming an ideal and appropriate teacher

Teaching On Solid Ground: Nuance, Challenge, And Technique For The Emerging Teacher by classroom educational expert Dominic Belmonte (Director of Teacher Preparation for the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching) is an informed and informative guide to creating an ultimate comfort-zone for teachers not content with their empowering position. As an introduction to the teaching in general, Teaching On Solid Ground includes a "user-friendly " basis that consists of fifteen ways to master classroom pacing, tone, undertone, and behavior, five sample lessons using Socratic Seminar, inquiry sciences, and Magic Math Box, reflective approaches to important challenges, including high-stakes tests, bridging the achievement gap, and helping students deal with tragedy. Teaching On Solid Ground really is an overall "reader friendly" reference and guide for becoming an ideal and appropriate teacher, very strongly recommended to all teachers, new and experienced, for its exclusive ability to relate to its readers and its deeply accurate reasoning for taking its recommended approaches.