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.

Teachers who acquire elaborate core practices intuitively make the best decisions in the classroom. They rely on expertise that enables them not only to master the daily and often complex challenges of the profession, but to teach in ways that help students make the best possible progress. They recognize core practices as the key components of adaptive and successful teaching, in such areas as supporting students, diagnosing difficulties, providing feedback, guiding conversations, explaining, and more. Core Practices of Successful Teachers: Supporting Learning and Managing Instruction explores core practices that enable educators to teach in the best possible way for the benefit of students. Via a variety of suggestions and activities, this book shows pre-service and in-service teachers how to not only learn about and understand numerous core practices, but also how to engage with, develop, reflect on, and improve them.

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

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