Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains | 
 enlarge | Author: Louanne Johnson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Pages: 352
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ISBN: 0787974714
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.102
EAN: 9780787974718
ASIN: 0787974714
Publication Date: August 15, 2005
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From seating plans to Shakespeare, Teaching Outside the Box offers practical strategies that will help both new teachers and seasoned veterans create dynamic classroom environments where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching. This indispensable book is filled with no-nonsense advice, checklists, and handouts as well as - A step-by-step plan to make the first week of school a success
- Approaches for creating a positive discipline plan
- Methods for motivating students, especially reluctant readers
- Strategies for successful classroom management
- Suggestions for creating and grading student portfolios
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 If you are a public school teacher then you engage in state-sponsored brainwashing and should be sent to prison! May 22, 2008
1 out of 53 found this review helpful
Marx is back, this time he's wearing Dockers. In order to bring about rule by the proletariat, Marx said there were some obstacles in the way that needed to be abolished: Family, Religion, and Culture. Our public schools are doing everything they can to do just that!
Family: We - are - family, Trotsky, Lenin, Pol Pot and me! From the tender age of 5 straight on to 18, liberal teachers have a death-grip on your children's psyche from 8:00 until 3:00! The Dems are already discussing legislation to create government daycare systems that could have your kids in their clutches straight out of the womb!
Then they have these parent-teacher conferences that are frighteningly similar to $cientology confessionals, only they are not forced to talk into a pair of tin-cans! The teacher's grill them on a long list of subjects until the parent is so tired and wanting to leave that he/she will give into any/all of the teacher's demands!
Religion: Mommy, why can't Johnny read (the Bible?) As long as man holds himself accountable to God and not man, the State can never truly own him! Take away God and man's highest authority will be the State! Yike stripes! The trial that began the menagerie was the infamous Everson v. Board of Education 330 U.S. 1. (1947). Which not only took prayer out of schools, but gone on to remove any mention of God!
Culture: Hey, I've got the diversity pneumonia and the multi-culti flu! By smothering your child with every culture but his own, the State is in fact taking away his culture. By the time your child leaves school, he is so bewildered by this cultural bombardment that he may start chanting is Swahili!
This small example taken from a popular education website will allow you to hear it from the horse's mouth!
"Content must be complete and accurate, acknowledging the contributions and perspectives of ALL groups.
*Ensure that the content is as complete and accurate as possible.
o"Christopher Columbus discovered America" is neither complete nor accurate.
*Avoid tokenism--weave content about under-represented groups (People of Color, Women, Lesbian, Gxy, and Bisexual People, People with Disabilities, etc.) seamlessly with that about traditionally over-represented groups.
oDo you present under-represented groups as "the other"?
oDo you address these groups only through special units and lesson plans ("African American Scientists"; "Poetry by Women") or within the context of the larger curriculum?
oDo you "celebrate" difference or study, explore, and acknowledge it as part of the overall curriculum?
*Study the history of discrimination in curriculum and ensure that you are not replicating it.
oAre supporting stereotypes (learning about Native Americans by making headdresses and tomahawks) or challenging them (learning about Native Americans through resources by Native Americans)?
oAre you supporting or challenging the assumption that our society is inherently Eurocentric, male-centric, Christian-centric, heterosexual-centric, and upper-middle-class centric?"
Well, having exposed without question our Marxist public school system, let's take a look at its list of crimes!
*Teachers should, in theory, present numerous sides of issues and give their pupils a well rounded education. Then why is it that they are all FORCED to become members of the NEA, a far-left lobbyist group!? The union even tells its members who to vote for! This sounds like racketeering to me. Let's use those RICO statutes!
*In order to keep as many people as possible within their grasp, the NEA refuses to give vouchers to minorities so they can escape to the freedom of private schools!
*Whenever a student shows any sign of individualism, unconventional behavior, or beliefs that are not endorsed by the State, they are prescribed mind control drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac!
*The public school system puts so much stress on our children that they are beginning to lash out and shoot, bomb, and otherwise kill their fellow classmates!
*Some teachers even engage in s-e-x acts with their students! In fact these cases are in the news all the time!
*Check out this definition of prison and be mortified: "A public building used for the confinement of people convicted of serious crimes." That's what public schools are! Public buildings used for the confinement of people! But public schools are even worse because the children haven't even committed any crimes! Or maybe our government just assumes they will and this is a form of preemptive correction! Is the government proselytizing them to have a herd-like mentality.
*This just in! Youth suicide rates up! Children would rather die than go to public school! In 1998, among youth ages 10 to 19 in the United States, there were 2,054 suicides! Those kids could have grown up to be doctors or great scientists but the public school system drove them to kill themselves!
Your eyes are probably blinded by tears brought on by the long list of grievances I just listed. Therefore, I will give you a moment to wipe them from your eyes and regain your composure.
All done? Good, because there's hope.
Home schools- Parents, you don't need the government to do your job for you! You are more than capable of teaching your children everything they need to know, even more so as you can give your child 100% of your attention! Make sure you always have your child take part in activities with people their age, such as Church, sports, and home-schooling events so they are prepared for the world when they have graduated. Fathers, take your son to work and let him observe, when he gets a little older, begin some hands-on training. Mothers, don't just cook and clean for your daughters, have them cook and clean with you to provide hands on training. The opportunities for preparing your child for the rat-race, without government intervention, are limited only by your imagination and lack of initiative!
The best part is, unlike school where they sit down all day and are filled with energy when they get home, your tykes will be tuckered out by the end of your hands on instruction, leaving you and your spouse ample free-time to get to work on making more independent thinkers!
 Great for a beginner teacher May 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was just what I needed to begin teaching in the classroom. I am trying to be one of those teachers who do more than just "stand up in the front of the classroom and lecture all day". Great read!
 My gift for mentorees April 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been mentoring new teachers for several years. I was recently introduced to this title at a national seminar on making middle grades successful, and found the book so handy for my own use, and with such useful introductory chapters for first-year teachers, that it has become a standard part of my welcoming gift to new mentorees. I can flip to any part of the book and find ideas and reminders that keep me on track as the kind of teacher I want to be.
Get this book! April 4, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Are you a new teacher or a teacher-to-be? Get this book!!!!
Are you an experienced teacher who is having difficulty with organization or class management? Get this book!!!
The author was a high school English teacher in a challenging district filled with gang issues, drug issues, and attitude issues. Her advice is solid and can apply to teachers in any situation. I am currently studying to become an elementary teacher and I have no problem adapting her techniques and strategies for the elementary aged students. In fact, she often gives her own "how to adapt this technique for elementary teachers" advice throughout the book. I think I like this book even better than First Days of School by Harry Wong because it takes you step by step in detail through her strategies for organization and classroom management. But in truth, I would buy both this book and First Days of School just to get the maximum class management advice.
This book only had one class management strategy that I wouldn't use in my own class. The author actually reserves it for emergencies (the rude student folder)...I wouldn't use that one for elementary kids because they are too young (in my opinion) for that sort of thing... but that one strategy was the only thing that I had to ignore (and I don't believe she has to use it herself very often). I used all of her other advice in my plans for my new class.
She presents the information with appropriate humor and I laughed out loud more than once. My favorite "funny" quote: "Now you can create lesson plans that suit your classes, but don't get too specific just yet. If you plan your teaching days down to the minute, the administrative tasks and unavoidable interruptions will drive you crazy, and driving you crazy is your strudents' job. You wouldn't want to spoil their fun." (105)
Seriously though, LouAnne Johnson offers new teachers and struggling experienced teachers sound advice to use in any situation. She relates to the kids on their level while still maintaining her position as the head chief of the classroom. This creates an atmosphere of mutual respect and maximum learning.
Awesome book and highly recommended (I wish my own son's teachers would read this book!)
I am so happy I got this book when I did. I plan to use it extensively!
A must read for new teachers March 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read this book several times. I got more out of this book than I did reading 2 very long text books on classroom management and teaching in my education courses. I highly reccomend it.
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