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25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them
This updated edition of the bestseller helps teachers become more sensitive educators by recognizing teaching mistakes and discovering better ways to address challenging and stressful situations.
- GenresTeaching
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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January 12, 2015
The book is interesting in that it takes various people's essays of their experience with teaches and breaks it down how the teacher had messed up. One of the biggest things that I took out of this is that nun's can be pretty brutal to their students, although this might be a poor stereotype the book definitely makes you think it could be true.
December 29, 2023
The 26th mistake was to read it 😅
March 1, 2025
This is really a helping tool for the persons in teaching profession .This book focuses on the mistakes done by teachers while interacting with students.If you want to learn educational psychology with examples then this is good option.The mistakes mentioned in this book are as
1.Screaming or yelling at the top of lung.
2.Ignoring the child for minor offense.
3.Punishment of writting many times
4.Putting tape on student's mouth.
5.Punishing both students for cheating scenario(The student who showed the answer and the student who copied the answer.)
6.Taking action without making any enquiry.
7.paddling the student.
8.Moving a student away from the class as a punishment.
9.Hitting a child by mistake while punishing another child.
10.Punishing a child suddenly after watching another child crying.
11.Throwing objects towards the student.
12.To expel a student for talking and laughing.
13.Calling a student by another name (Not remembering the names of students.)
14.Not allowing a child to comb the hair or to have make up in the classroom.
15.Giving unclear commands.
16.Not letting a child to go to the bathroom.
17.Encouraging the class to alienate to a particular child.
18.Punishing a child who accidently forgot something to bring in the class.
19.Forcing the student for public confession.
20.Failing to recognize a child (questioning to only smart students)
21.Demanding a public apology.
22.Making fun on student's answer.
23.Not giving importance to courage of a student.
24.Bringing a child infront of the class and asking him to tell what the teacher had taught.
25.Making fun on student's question.(Not encouraging the child to ask questions)
26.Making favoritism on the basis of dress(Richness)
27.Making friendship with child.(Having adult type interaction with the child)
28.Making jokes on the basis of the body appearence of a child(ex.Targeting fat child.)
29.Believing that the responsibility for students ends once the child leave school property.
30.Not paying proper attention to the child having visual problem.
31.Sharing personal life with child.
32.Getting sexually attracted to the child.
33.Sacrificing the student's psychilological safety.
34.Expecting current students to follow in their brother's /sister's footsteps.
35.Making discrimination on the basis of religon or caste
36.Humilating a child by calling students to the chalkboard.
37.Grabbing the child by the shoulders ans shaking him back and forth.
38.Giving cold reception to the new student.(Not welcoming the new child)
39.Asking sensetive questions that have psychological damage a child.
40.Not ignoring potentially offensive huge body sounds such as blowing the nose, hacking coughs or passing the gas
41.Unorganized collection of assignments,exam papers.
42."I have got my eye on you " policy.(Not giving any freedom to the child.)
43.Discouraging the child by communicating their low expectations.
44."No talking, I mean no talking" policy.
45.Slapping a child on the bottom (touching private body parts of the students)
1.Screaming or yelling at the top of lung.
2.Ignoring the child for minor offense.
3.Punishment of writting many times
4.Putting tape on student's mouth.
5.Punishing both students for cheating scenario(The student who showed the answer and the student who copied the answer.)
6.Taking action without making any enquiry.
7.paddling the student.
8.Moving a student away from the class as a punishment.
9.Hitting a child by mistake while punishing another child.
10.Punishing a child suddenly after watching another child crying.
11.Throwing objects towards the student.
12.To expel a student for talking and laughing.
13.Calling a student by another name (Not remembering the names of students.)
14.Not allowing a child to comb the hair or to have make up in the classroom.
15.Giving unclear commands.
16.Not letting a child to go to the bathroom.
17.Encouraging the class to alienate to a particular child.
18.Punishing a child who accidently forgot something to bring in the class.
19.Forcing the student for public confession.
20.Failing to recognize a child (questioning to only smart students)
21.Demanding a public apology.
22.Making fun on student's answer.
23.Not giving importance to courage of a student.
24.Bringing a child infront of the class and asking him to tell what the teacher had taught.
25.Making fun on student's question.(Not encouraging the child to ask questions)
26.Making favoritism on the basis of dress(Richness)
27.Making friendship with child.(Having adult type interaction with the child)
28.Making jokes on the basis of the body appearence of a child(ex.Targeting fat child.)
29.Believing that the responsibility for students ends once the child leave school property.
30.Not paying proper attention to the child having visual problem.
31.Sharing personal life with child.
32.Getting sexually attracted to the child.
33.Sacrificing the student's psychilological safety.
34.Expecting current students to follow in their brother's /sister's footsteps.
35.Making discrimination on the basis of religon or caste
36.Humilating a child by calling students to the chalkboard.
37.Grabbing the child by the shoulders ans shaking him back and forth.
38.Giving cold reception to the new student.(Not welcoming the new child)
39.Asking sensetive questions that have psychological damage a child.
40.Not ignoring potentially offensive huge body sounds such as blowing the nose, hacking coughs or passing the gas
41.Unorganized collection of assignments,exam papers.
42."I have got my eye on you " policy.(Not giving any freedom to the child.)
43.Discouraging the child by communicating their low expectations.
44."No talking, I mean no talking" policy.
45.Slapping a child on the bottom (touching private body parts of the students)
March 8, 2015
Absolutely awful. I was looking for some inspiration for my own teaching and ended up a third of the way through the book hating my own profession. I genuinely wanted to find something good in this book and can't. Don't even bother with it if you're an educator, it focuses on our of date practices and gives one sided accounts.
June 2, 2020
Does not apply to countries outside America
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