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Risk Teaching : Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom

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Must we always teach from the inside of a classroom?

Do periodic exams encourage learning as well as daily quizzes do?

Do you schedule individual conferences with each student at the start of the term?

Is lecturing an effective way to teach? If a student falls in love with you-or vice versa-are you doing something right or something wrong?

If you have a pedagogical idea that will probably fail, should you try it anyhow?

How do we know when it is time to retire from a profession we love?

Such questions may make readers uncomfortable, but they may also lead them to change the way they think about the profession.

Teachers may reconsider their methods, causing students to reconsider their attitudes.

In choosing the title Risk Teaching, Peter G. Beidler hopes to convey multiple meanings of the word "risk." "Risk" the verb, as in "take a chance on an amazing profession." "Risk" the adjective, as in "risky"-teaching that diverges from the safe and traditional path. "Risk" the noun, as in "teach students to take risks" and learn outside their comfort zones.

Beidler's book, like his teaching, is saucy, innovative, and challenging.

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Product Details
Coffeetown Press
1603811060 / 9781603811064
Paperback / softback
01/12/2011
United States
250 pages
152 x 229 mm, 340 grams