Expand Your Skills
The following resources are referenced in The Skillful Teacher, Seventh Edition (TST7). To access all of the resources, be sure to register for an account.
Chapter 1 Introduction
John Adams' Promise (ESSAY 1)
How to Have Good Schools for All Our Children, Not Just for Some.
This is referred to on page 7 of The Skillful Teacher 7th Edition.
John Adams’ Promise (ESSAY 2)
The Significance of the Geographical State and the Ten Processes of Education Reform
This is referred to on page 7 of The Skillful Teacher 7th Edition.
John Adams' Promise (ESSAY 3)
Including Student Results in Teacher Evaluation - A Case Study in Focus on Teaching Expertise
This is referred to on page 7 of The Skillful Teacher 7th Edition.
Chapter 3 Essential Beliefs: Schooling
The Skillful Teacher 7th Edition: Exercises for Chapter 3
Exercises for Chapter 3 – Essential Beliefs: Schooling
This is referred to on page 27 of The Skillful Teacher 7th Edition.
Chapter 4 Essential Beliefs: Cultural Proficiency and Anti-Racism
Implicit Bias Online Assessment
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Waking Up White: Learning About Racism and White Privilege - Biography (page 37)
Chapter 4 Videos
Chapter 5 Management: Attention
Self-Assessment: Check Your Attention Moves (page 55)
Chapter 5 Videos
Chapter 8 Videos
Chapter 10 Management: Discipline
Self-Assessment: Discipline and Learning Environment (page 127)
The Taboo Exercise
The Taboo Exercise is a useful first exercise for faculties to do together to get clarity, consensus, and conviction about behavioral expectations.
Creating a Social Contract
Mendler and Curwin (1999) describe a comprehensive strategy for involving students in rule making—called the social contract—to promote responsibil-ity and respect and ensure there are clarity and buy-in regarding the rules of classroom interaction.
Guidelines for Home Contact
Another useful strategy to clarify and reinforce expectations and build relationships with families is early home contact to establish a positive connec-tion long before problems arise, and to enlist their support and cooperation throughout the year in reinforcing the class contract.
7 Models of Discipline
This article explores seven therapeutic models of discipline in some detail and presents an important matching framework for how to choose from among them to match the apparent psychological needs driving the student behavior.
Chapter 10 Video
Chapter 11 Instruction: Clarity
Questioning Skills
This “Questioning Skills” document summarizes the research on higher- and lower-level questions and shows the need for all students to experience higher-level questions and higher-level think-ing, regardless of their current skill level.
Bloom's Taxonomy
All students need to be invited and supported to do higher-level thinking, no matter what their literacy level. To do this requires a clear framework for understanding what higher-level thinking is. Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues (1956) created the original framework for this understanding.
24 Operating Principles
These 24 operating principles name and explain choices a teacher makes during a discussion to engage more students in the conversation, to facilitate student-to-student dialogue, and to get students to reveal and evaluate their reasoning in support of developing genuine understanding.
The History of Making Students' Thinking Visible (page 261)
Chapter 11 Videos
Chapter 12 Instruction: Principles of Learning
Chapter 12 Videos
Chapter 13 Instruction: Models of Teaching
The Major Models of Teaching and Their Theoretical Underpinnings (page 296)
Chapter 14 Motivation: Expectations
History of the Idea of "Intelligence" in the United States (page 324)
This piece gives a brief overview of the history of “intelligence” and how it got so deeply embedded in American culture and school design.
Exemplars From The Skillful Teacher 6th Edition
Exemplars (A Kid Called John)
Exemplars
Chapter 14 Videos
Chapter 15 Motivation: Personal Relationship Building
Chapter 17 Curriculum: Design
Chapter 17 Videos
Chapter 18 Curriculum: Lesson Objectives
Language Objectives for ESL Students (page 471)
Content Planning Conference Script
Chapter 18 Videos
Chapter 19 Curriculum: Planning
Taxonomy of Generic Thinking Skills (page 496)
Questioning Skills
This “Questioning Skills” document summarizes the research on higher- and lower-level questions and shows the need for all students to experience higher-level questions and higher-level think-ing, regardless of their current skill level.