What Is It about Me You Can′t Teach? : An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator

By James A. Bellanca and Eleanor Renée Rodríguez

Book Overview

Formerly a SkyLight publication

Gangs, drugs, poverty, shootings, lack of materials, dilapidated classrooms, lack of support? Urban teachers sometimes deal with issues like these on a daily basis. In spite of these intense obstacles, teachers must stay focused on one goal--getting through to the students.

What Is It About Me You Can′t Teach?: An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator arms educators with new knowledge, skills, and ideas to enhance teaching techniques. Teachers will gain a fresh view of goal setting, sharing behaviors, self-control, reciprocal teaching, and self-change--everything needed to be a more effective urban teacher and make students better prepared for life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575170663
• ISBN13: 9781575170664
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Corwin Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

urban teaching

This book gives a good overview of strategies and understanding for urban teaching. The book covers expectations, controlling behavior, goal planning, self-change, and understanding to higher achievement. As a new teacher this book is helpful to gain insight on child behavior and on urban school environments.

How to delivery high-quality education in any environment

Eleanor Renee Rodriguez and James Bellanca's WHAT IS IT ABOUT ME YOU CAN'T TEACH? AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE FOR THE URBAN EDUCATOR blends classroom expectations and standards with research-based practices to show teachers how to delivery high-quality education in any environment. The focus here is on urban students, developing strategies that help students take responsibility and control of the learning process. Chapters present four basic comprehension strategies and pair these ideas with tactics for success.