No fear in my classroom : A teacher's guide on how to ease students' concern
/ Wootan,Frederick C.
- Massachusetts Adams Media 2010
- 239 p
I. Part 1: Personal fears 1. Is my classroom an effective learning environment? 2. Am I bringing my personal life into my professional life? 3. Can I count on job security? 4. How do I handle a difficult administrator? 5. Do I need to know how to use all this technology? 6. Am I being fair? 7. Should I be afraid of being sued? 8. I don’t know if I can teach my subject II. Part 2: Student fears 9. Are my students bored? 10. Why won’t these kids let me teach them? 11. How to I deal with harassing students? 12. What if a student has a medical emergency? 13. How do I handle fear of the bullies? 14. How am I supposed to stop school violence? 15. Why do my students keep getting distracted? 16. What if they are scared? III. Part 3: Parental fears 17. Do my student’s home lives come to school? 18. Why do my student’s parent scare me? 19. How do I handle an apathetic parent? 20. Will there be repercussions to my disciplining? IV. Part 4: External fears 21. Are my students going to be able to compete? 22. How does the neighborhood affect my school 23. what do I do about drugs in my school? 24. Are my students safe on their way home? 25. Terrorism and my classroom 26. What do I do when the government interferes?