Tenaciously Teaching Teenagers - Stories and Strategies for Reaching Even the Toughest Students with Humor, Love, and Respect
Author(s): Pamela Jean Matusz
Teaching Professional Development
The most rewarding aspect of being a teacher isn't how you get through the content, but how you reach your students and have a lifelong impact. In this funny and heartwarming book, Pamela Jean Matusz lets us into her classroom and shows how she connects with an often hard-to-understand species-teenagers! She provides stories and strategies on earning respect, using humor, and being your weird self, giving students a voice, earning respect, and making yourself human. She also demonstrates how to put students into the lesson, grade what you say you're grading, teach and not penalize, address bullying, and understand where parents are coming from. And finally, she helps you remember that the toughest ones need you the most. Each chapter has a relatable story and takeaways you can apply to your own teaching situation. The book ends with a list of key things teachers shouldn't be without, and a collection of "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" classroom stories that will remind you why you chose this profession. Perfect to read on your own or in book studies, this isn't a research- and strategy-filled resource to tell you how to improve; it's a heartfelt look at effective ways to reach teenagers and a reminder of the huge difference you're making as a teacher!
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"There are so many inspiring story books for educators out there but this one is different because it attaches an instructional strategy with it, genius! Teachers need teaching strategies that work and this book has them." Nikki Carel, Instructional Coach, Missouri "This book is what every educator has been waiting for! The author provides a toolbox for teachers that includes practical ways to call out undesirable student behaviors while simultaneously establishing and maintaining positive relationships with your students. If you are an educator who wants to show ALL students that you care, this is the book for you!" Theresa M. Pietrowski, MAE, School Principal, New Jersey "Pamela's book invites her audience to inventory their classroom skillset to meet students where they are. She provides non-traditional and practical insight to help educators build genuine relationships with students, in a non-traditional world. She goes above and beyond to help model what being a safe and supportive ally is while also maintaining curriculum." Guy Crawley, M.A., School Counselor, New Jersey
Pamela Jean Matusz is in her 15th year as a teacher in New Jersey.
About the Author
Preface
Section One: Classroom Culture
1. Do You Earn Respect?
2. Making Yourself Human
3. Give Them a Voice
4. Kids Can Hear You Too
5. Humor In Kind
6. Late, Missing, or Absent, Oh My!
7. Safe From Reading
8. Writing Utensil Cat'astrophe
9. Accent'uate Your Lessons
Section Two: Movement in the Classroom and into the Community
10. Learning In Motion
11. Musical Notes and Hitting School Property Softly
12. Put Them In the Lesson
13. Grade What You Are Grading
14. Your Student Is Their Heart
15. Go to Them
16. If You're Not a Little Weird, You're Not Normal
17. Thrift Life Forever Section Three: Teaching the Toughest Kids
18. In School Suspension Sucks
19. Don't Sink Like a Stone
20. "Get Real" Talk
21. The Power Of Choice
22. The Toughest Ones Need You the Most
23. Step Into My Office
24. I Am Your Teacher For Life Section Four: Things They Cannot Teach You in College
25. The Teacher Survival Guide: The 15 Things You Do Not Want To Be Without Section Five: The Real Reason I Am a Teacher: True Stories
26. True Stories: I Cannot Make This Stuff Up
27. Proceed With Caution
General Fields
- :
- : Taylor & Francis Group.
- : Routledge
- : 0.290753
- : 01 July 2023
- : {"length"=>["9"], "width"=>["6"], "units"=>["Inches"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Pamela Jean Matusz
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 373.11
- : 146
