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Super Teaching: Over 1000 Practical Strategies

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Excellent examples and lists to use the next day in class. A very practical and meaningful source of information for teachers. If you want to start teaching for learning, this is the book to get you there and you'll have fun doing it. As well as your students!

TNT will present the Ron Clark Story on Sunday night. Friends star, Matthew Perry, will play the teacher that cared about his students. Watching the movie will give you an idea of what Super Teaching is all about.

The theme of Super Teaching is also embodied in the quote from Senator Robert Kennedy:

"Some men see things that are and ask `Why?' and others see things the way they could be and ask `Why not?'"

Both Ron Clark and Sen. Robert Kennedy, along with Eric Jensen are people who ask "Why not?" They are not satisfied with the way things are and they want them to change. Jensen gave us a guide book to becoming an effective teacher - a way to shake up the way things have always been done. Jensen shows a way to get away from the teacher-centric classroom that turns learners off to a learner-centered lab where students can grow and achieve.

There are over 1000 tips in this book. It would take pages to do them justice. There are tips on learner planning, not lesson planning; tips on the classroom environment, with a huge emphasis on music; tips that address ways to reach Gardner's Multiple Intelligences; ways to make discipline effective; establishing relationships with your students; and how to do effective assessment of learning. It is almost a teacher certification program in one book.

I found that this book has more answers that I could ever formulate into questions. It is an invaluable tool that I will read over and over again. I truly believe that is every teacher used the tips presented in this book, then there would actually be No Child Left Behind!

I encountered this book through one of my professors in grad school and I just had to get my own. It touchs on several topics that all teachers should be interested in. It is exactly what the title implies super book. I thought it would be helpful to have professionaly instead several different books on various topics and I am glad I got it.

This was an excellent textbook that allows teachers to supplement their lesson plans using activities that utilize the multiple intelligences. Jensen's book should be a bible for any new teacher entering the profession and for educators who need to emancipate themselves from the sit and lecture method.

Eric Jensen's SUPER TEACHING packs in over 1,000 strategies for teachers, considering how students learn and also how instruction changes a student's brain and thinking. From using assessment as part of instruction to handling special needs kids, SUPER TEACHING is packed with powerful opportunities. A key pick for education libraries.

First, I LOVE Eric Jensen. I have read both Teaching with the Brain in Mind as well as his recent Teaching with Poverty in Mind. TWPIM is definitely a must-read. I also had the privilege of attending his two-day workshop. AWESOME. I bought Super Teaching in response to that workshop in hopes of finding more of his energizers and working memory exercises. It only named a few and I had upwards of 20 from his workshop. The piece I found of most value was the specifics on room environment with regards to specific plants that foster learning. :)

Jensen's books are all highly valuable resources for teaching. I would recommend any of them for teachers who are struggling to get their most challenging students to understand and retain their lessons.

Being a Trainer myself.

I highly recommend this book as a resource for learning new tools for beginning trainers.

I bought while I was at Trainers Training

at Idea Seminars with Rex Sikes.

I learned more techniques and exercises

from this book than any other Trainers

book out there.

Useful for creating seminars, training

and computer courses.