Just Who Am I Training Anyway: A Common Sense Guide To Teaching - Softcover

Slater, David

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ISBN 10: 1466909986 ISBN 13: 9781466909984

Verlag: Trafford, 2012

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JUST WHO AM I TRAINING ANYWAY

A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO TEACHINGBy Dave Slater

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2012 Dave Slater
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ISBN: 978-1-4669-0998-4

Contents

CONTEXT.......................................................................3PRELUDE.......................................................................4INTRODUCTION..................................................................5PART 1 DISCOVERING THE TEACHER................................................8CHAPTER 1. THE QUESTIONS......................................................9CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF TEACHING.........................15CHAPTER 3: FOUR PRIMARY TEACHING APPROACHES...................................24CHAPTER 4: THE STEPS FOR BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER............................42CHAPTER 5: LEARNING THE POWER OF PROBLEM SOLVING..............................67CHAPTER 6: WHEN AM I WASTING MY TIME..........................................92PART 2 DISCOVERING THE STUDENT................................................103CHAPTER 7: UNDERSTANDING THE STUDENT..........................................104CHAPTER 8: EVEN A TEENAGER WILL MAKE SENSE....................................123CHAPTER 9: HOW LEARNING TAKES PLACE...........................................140CHAPTER 10: WHAT INFLUENCES A CHILD TO REACT..................................161PART 3 WHAT WILL I TEACH......................................................183CHAPTER 11 INSPIRING THRU BOMB PROOF CHARACTER TRAITS.........................184FAITH TO PRAY.................................................................190RESPECT.......................................................................193SELF ESTEEM and SELF CONFIDENCE...............................................198THRIFTINESS...................................................................203DISCERNMENT...................................................................207COMMITMENT....................................................................212HONESTY.......................................................................218TOLERATING THE PAINS OF INCONVENIENCE.........................................220COURAGE.......................................................................228UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLE OF PRACTICE.......................................231ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.............................................................234PART 4 INCREASING EFFECTIVESNESS..............................................239CHAPTER 12: AM I AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER.........................................240CHAPTER 13: GOING BACK TO THE BASICS..........................................248CHAPTER 14: A LESSON OF PRACTISE..............................................271CHAPTER 15: GRADUATING ESCALATION OF INVOLEMENT...............................283CHAPTER 16: HOW TO DELIVER AN EFFECTIVE PUNISHMENT............................316CHAPTER 17: NOW IS NOT TIME TO QUIT...........................................341CHAPTER 18: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHE............................................369PART 5 THE ULTIMATE TEACHERS..................................................393CHAPTER 19: RECEIVING GUIDANCE FROM THE ULTIMATE TEACHERS.....................394INDEX.........................................................................408

Chapter One

THE QUESTIONS

"You're late! Just where have you been?" she bombarded. Her words delivered the instant the door opened; a peeved anger resonated through her voice.

"We went to the Dairy Freeze after leaving Cindy's. I didn't think you'd—"

"So yah thought you'd sneak in again, did yah?"

In attempt to explain herself, the trapped daughter started again. "Mom, I'd—" only to be chopped short once more by her irritated mother.

"I've waited up two hours just to catch you, young lady!"

"Why can't you just ask me how it went," flashed back Sue in retaliation, "without jumping down my throat?"

"WE NEED TO TALK NOW!" shouted mom.

"Not when you're acting like such a jerk!" Sue's countenance flipped flopped one-eighty degrees triggered by mother's lead. Her retort started at the shrieking level of mom's, and then increased further to about 100 decibels. Simultaneously she thrust out her tongue, shook her hands, and waved her fore-arms side to side, all the while teetering at her trunk. Theatrically she purposely mimicked mom's freak-out. With that, she turned flamboyantly and started marching towards her room.

"Don't talk to me like that!" screeched mother. "Wait `till I tell your father about this; he'll ground you for a month!" Yet Sue, without looking back, was still continuing up the stairs. "Did you hear what I said, young lady?"

"Yah, like that'll be the day!" hollered down the freshly aroused she-devil. "I am tired and I am going to bed. I don't have time to deal with your anger", she shouted back with mirroring vengeance. Sue jeered back over her shoulder for one last scowl. Her extravagant melodramatic display only succeeded to distract her pounding accent, causing her to snag a high-healed sandal on the carpeted stairs. She stumbled to catch herself, but missed quick placement on her now out-of-sequence bare foot. Sharply she stubbed her toe, causing a cry out of pain, "OH," she yipped.

Mom cringed slightly at the teen's misfortune, but quickly passed on offering sympathy. Allowing only her own justification of anger, "She desired that!" Mom reveled.

Discounting her throbbing toe and abandoned sandal, the youth forced her defiant march up the last flight. Stomping down the hall, she threw open her bedroom door, burst in, and then slammed it closed, so-as-to drive home to mom the message: "YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE."

"That girl has got me so worked up," thought mom. "I should have just smacked her right then and there; maybe then I'd get some respect. It sure would have made me feel a whole lot better."

"Damn kid," she thought climbing in bed. Stealing a look at her alarm clock; it was 12:45a.m. "Now, I won't be able to sleep a wink." Fuming she thought of how tired she'd be at work tomorrow.

Lying in bed, the remembrance of the evening's disaster was keeping her awake. The clock showed 2:53. Over two hours had passed and Mom still continued to fret over the earlier incident, but fading was the personal anger she felt over the ill effects from Sue's lack of respect. Replacing it was a mind full of so many questions.

"Maybe, I should just forget about it and leave her to learn responsibility on her own? That sure would be a whole lot easier." Thoughts continued to bombard her as stinging hail driven in a stiff wind.

"Looking back at last night, I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't jumped all over her? What if I'd just given her a hug, or at least given her the benefit of doubt as to why she was late again ... at least until she could explain?" Mom's chance for sleep was now long gone. "She's only fifteen; and not yet an adult. How could I have been so rough on her? ... Poor kid"

The correct answers were just not there. More thoughts raced through her mind, each one leading to others. Each thought directing a mini role-play. Which was right? What effect would the different approaches make on Sue, if played out?

"It seems that for the past two years every time I confront Sue, we end up in a fight. I just want Sue to be more respectful and to see the error of her ways." Mom continued to question herself further, "I am doing this for her own good, aren't...

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• Verlag: Trafford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1466909986
• ISBN 13: 9781466909984
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412
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