25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

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Avoid common teaching mistakes and acquire positive strategies and approaches!
All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.
25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them, Second Edition, includes newly updated scenarios containing real student voices and teacher vignettes, as well as the author's prescriptions for better solutions. Drawn from many years of teaching experience, each prescription is aligned with sound educational theory and provides a dash of humor to help the solution stick. The book is organized into six sections, covering:
Discipline
Teacher-student relations
Classroom policy and practices
Classroom management and instruction
Personality and professionalism
Teaching style and behavior
Excellent for staff development workshops and seminars, preservice and inservice teachers, and teacher leaders and mentors, this books real-life examples offer valuable professional lessons while helping teachers better understand the responses and feelings of their students.

Author Bio

Carolyn Orange, PhD, has worked as an educator for around 25 years. Now, she is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.