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Listening is Learning: Conversations Between 20th and 21st Century
Teachers is a unique approach for meeting the challenges of today's
teachers. In sixteen chapters of conversations between veterans and
young teachers, readers will discover engaged teaching from the
previous century that captures the attention of students. The
classroom is the perhaps the last vestige of hope where children
will discover the joy of being together without intermediary
devices. Conversations invite reflection. Listening to respectful
discussions between young and older teachers allows readers to slow
down and take stock of their own positions and beliefs. Young
teachers will come away with not only rich ideas but also a sense
of encouragement to meet the challenges of digitally driven
students. Face-to-face classrooms are the best hope for students to
discover their best selves, without distractions so prevalent in
social media. If teachers choose to show students from the first
day that they care about them and are willing to listen to their
lives, they will build trusted relationships--essential for
students--and for teachers.
Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers
to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this
book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of
today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting
Classrooms is sensitive to the challenges schools face and is
relentless in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Schools
must do better. Rather than focus on improving test scores, this
book advocates that teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not
only to one note. If students only learn to succeed on bubble
tests, they will not have opportunities to discover their true
potential. Thoms sees the teaching process as a joint venture
between teacher and student where the teacher brings learning to
the student and, at the same time, brings the student to the
learning. This process demands at least as much listening as
talking, a new habit that teachers and principals need to learn.
Teaching that Matters invites principals and teachers to make
changes that will allow all students to succeed. Thoms urges
administrators and teachers to reconsider traditional practices in
light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students.
While sensitive to the challenges schools face Thoms is relentless
in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Rather than focus
on improving test scores, Teaching that Matters advocates that
teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not only to one note.
If students only learn to succeed on bubble tests, they will not
have opportunities to discover their true potential. Thoms sees the
teaching process as a joint venture between teacher and student
where the teacher brings learning to the student and, at the same
time, brings the student to the learning. This process demands at
least as much listening as talking, a new habit that teachers and
principals need to learn. By meeting innovative principals and
teachers who engage students, this book will help you to learn to
change traditional classroom practices into exciting alternatives.
Teaching that Matters invites principals and teachers to make
changes that will allow all students to succeed. Thoms urges
administrators and teachers to reconsider traditional practices in
light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students.
While sensitive to the challenges schools face Thoms is relentless
in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Rather than focus
on improving test scores, Teaching that Matters advocates that
teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not only to one note.
If students only learn to succeed on bubble tests, they will not
have opportunities to discover their true potential. Thoms sees the
teaching process as a joint venture between teacher and student
where the teacher brings learning to the student and, at the same
time, brings the student to the learning. This process demands at
least as much listening as talking, a new habit that teachers and
principals need to learn. By meeting innovative principals and
teachers who engage students, this book will help you to learn to
change traditional classroom practices into exciting alternatives.
Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As
a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he
befriended-and discovered much about himself. Behind the Red Veil
recounts Frank's quest to understand the Russian people. He spent
his initial twenty-five years as a teacher, during which time he
pursued his understanding of Marxism, Russian history, and Soviet
Communism. His first venture to the Soviet Union occurred in
October 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev's first year as general secretary
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In his following six
trips, Frank served twice as a US-Soviet exchange teacher of
English in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and on his own taught
English in schools in Moscow and Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan. His
final journey, which was to the new Russia in 1994, three years
after Gorbachev's resignation, took him to Yekaterinburg in the
Ural Mountains. Through it all, Frank sought the love and respect
of the Russians he came into contact with. Behind the Red Veil is
the story of how they opened their hearts to him-and, in doing so,
opened his.
Listening is Learning: Conversations Between 20th and 21st Century
Teachers is a unique approach for meeting the challenges of today's
teachers. In sixteen chapters of conversations between veterans and
young teachers, readers will discover engaged teaching from the
previous century that captures the attention of students. The
classroom is the perhaps the last vestige of hope where children
will discover the joy of being together without intermediary
devices. Conversations invite reflection. Listening to respectful
discussions between young and older teachers allows readers to slow
down and take stock of their own positions and beliefs. Young
teachers will come away with not only rich ideas but also a sense
of encouragement to meet the challenges of digitally driven
students. Face-to-face classrooms are the best hope for students to
discover their best selves, without distractions so prevalent in
social media. If teachers choose to show students from the first
day that they care about them and are willing to listen to their
lives, they will build trusted relationships--essential for
students--and for teachers.
Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers
to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this
book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of
today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting
Classrooms is sensitive to the challenges schools face and is
relentless in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Schools
must do better. Rather than focus on improving test scores, this
book advocates that teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not
only to one note. If students only learn to succeed on bubble
tests, they will not have opportunities to discover their true
potential. Thoms sees the teaching process as a joint venture
between teacher and student where the teacher brings learning to
the student and, at the same time, brings the student to the
learning. This process demands at least as much listening as
talking, a new habit that teachers and principals need to learn.
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