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Core Practices of Successful Teachers helps teachers develop, understand, and improve core practices-the key components of adaptive and successful teaching-to teach in the best possible way for the benefit of students. Via a variety of suggestions and exercises, teachers can engage with core practices and continually reflect on and refine them.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Read This First
Chapter 1. What You Should Know Before Working with This Book
Chapter 2. How to Work Successfully with This Book
Part II: Supporting Individual Learning
Chapter 3. Supporting Individual Learning: What it is All About
Chapter 4. Diagnostics: How Do I Find Out Where the Students Stand?
Chapter 5. Professional Feedback to Learners: Crucial for Any Support
Chapter 6. How to Make Feedback and One-on-One Conversations More Effective
Part III: Managing Instruction
Chapter 7. Introduction
Chapter 8. The Transparent Opening of a Lesson
Chapter 9. Providing an Input
Chapter 10. Guiding Discussions
Chapter 11. Guidelines for Learning Activities
Chapter 12. Summing Up and Closing
Chapter 13. Some Variations of the Basic Lesson Structure
Part IV: Where Do We Stand Now?
Chapter 14. A Closer Look at the Concept of (Core) Practices
Chapter 15. Epilogue: My Own Practices
References
About the Author
About the author
Urban Fraefel is professor at the School of Education Northwestern Switzerland as well as an author. His teaching, research, and development activities focus on teaching and learning, core practices, practice-based teacher education, and university-school partnerships.
