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

By Dominic V. Belmonte

Book Overview

Using his trademark humor and encouraging style, the author explores the beginning teacher's concerns with issues of instruction, curriculum, classroom management, and the rewards of teaching.

• 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.