Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Our traditional "Great Teacher" teaches by telling, inspiring students through eloquent, passionate oration. For Donald Finkel this view is destructively narrow: it takes for granted that teachers teach, fundamentally and centrally, by telling students what they are supposed to know. In Teaching with Your Mouth Shut, Finkel proposes an alternative vision of teaching - one that is deeply democratic in its implications.
Read more
Each chapter in this book presents a case study, a story, or a sustained image of a teaching situation - a set of "circumstances" that produces significant learning in students. Each makes sense of the title of the book in a particular way. Each enriches its meaning by one increment. The idea of "teaching with your mouth shut" is explored, exemplified, and varied to such an extent that it ultimately specifies a comprehensible approach to teaching - along with a host of concrete teaching possibilities. In the end, not only will your notion of good teaching be transformed, but so too your sense of what may be signified by the word "teaching" itself.
Teaching with Your Mouth Shutis not intended as a manual for teachers; it aims to provoke reflection on the many ways teaching can be organized. The book engages its readers in a conversation about education. Thus, its purpose is not so much to reform education as it is to provoke fruitful dialogue about teaching and learning among people who have a stake in education.
Liked Teaching with Your Mouth Shut? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Teaching with Your Mouth Shut. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms Shares teaching, education, pedagogy -
The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal Shares education, teaching, nonfiction -
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice Shares education, teaching, pedagogy -
The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide Shares teaching, education, pedagogy
“People who read Teaching with Your Mouth Shut tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (education about teachers), start with these.”
-
A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works
- Great Habits, Great Readers: A Practical Guide for K-4 Reading in the Light of Common Core: Teaching the Skills and Strategies Students Need for Success
-
Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
-
Assertive Discipline
