Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Why I Wrote This Book -- Teach Yourself How to Teach -- Teaching is the Best Job in the World -- Teaching Grownups is More Fun Than Teaching Kids -- Acknowledgments -- Thank You, Kickstarter Backers -- About the Author -- CHAPTER 1: Foundations of Teaching -- Safety First, Discomfort Second -- Being an Expert Doesn't Make You a Good Teacher -- Try to See from the Student's Perspective -- Find Out Where Students are on their Journeys -- Your Job is to Help Students Learn -- You Teach the Whole Student, Too -- Teach for Transfer -- Cultivate Intrinsic Motivation -- Learning is Hard Work -- Adult Education has a Posse -- Everything in Education is Contested -- The Teacher Development Cycle -- Teaching Will Make You Feel Like an Idiot -- Teaching is a Tough Career that Keeps Getting Worse -- You Want to be a Great Teacher -- CHAPTER 2: How to Get Started Teaching -- Read Your Teaching Contract -- Contract Checklist -- You Work for the School -- Your First Year's a Wash -- Have a Mission -- You Can't be Friends with Your Students -- Understand the Bureaucracy -- Know Your School Bureaucracy! -- Love Your Job -- Teach the Same Thing -- Teach Everything -- Be Open to Observation -- Observer Tasks -- Learn Teacher Jargon -- Be Active in Your Union -- CHAPTER 3: How to Design Your Course -- What Question Will You Start With? -- Plan Your Course Objectives -- Bad Objectives -- Focus on Your Course Objectives -- Break It Down -- Plan with the End in Mind -- Make Your Expectations Clear to Students -- Syllabuses are Crucial -- Syllabus Checklist -- Textbooks Provide Course Design to Teachers -- How to Choose a Textbook -- Use Technology Sparingly -- Tips for Evaluating Educational Software -- Progress is Uneven.

Take Advantage of This -- CHAPTER 4: How to Lesson Plan -- The First Day of Class Is the Most Important -- Pre-First Day Checklist -- First Day Checklist -- Start with a Survey and an Entry Assessment -- Give 'Em a Hook -- Teach the Discomfort Zone -- Pace and Motivate within Each Lesson Plan -- What to Include in Each Lesson -- Develop Your Own Materials -- The Handsome Handout -- Share Your Materials Freely -- Don't Get too Invested in What You Design. -- Tell Stories -- Ready, Fire, Aim -- Multilevel Classes Are Hard . . . -- Make Your Students Write -- Getting the Most from Student Writing -- Homework Is Crucial -- Prepare a Sub Plan -- What to Give Your Sub -- End Each Class on a Strong Note -- CHAPTER 5: Grading and Assessments -- Assessments are Hard, Fraught, and Crucial -- The Five Principles of Assessment -- The Five Core Principles of Summative Assessment -- Validity Is the Most Important Part of a Test -- Grade and Evaluate Students Fairly -- A Grade Doesn't Measure How Much You Like Your Students -- Write Rubrics -- "Class Participation" Grades are Mostly Bs -- How to Write a Formative Assessment -- Formative Assessment Questions -- How to Write a Summative Assessment -- True/False Questions . . . -- Multiple Choice Questions . . . -- Short Answer Questions . . . -- Essay Questions . . . -- Overall Summative Assessment Design Tips -- How to Give a Test -- Before the Test -- During the Test -- When Students Finish -- Be Critical with the Facts -- Be Kind to Yourself -- Easy Versus Difficult Classes -- Standards are Assessments for Teachers -- Types of Standards -- CHAPTER 6: How to Run Your Class -- Start on Time -- Start and Finish Each Class the Same Way -- Build Trust to Maximize Learning -- Tips for Building Trust -- Intervene with Students Who Start (or Fall) Behind -- Successful Interventions for Struggling Students.

Know Every Student's Name -- Tips for Learning Names -- Show Your Agenda -- Good Questions Are Short and Clear -- How to Craft Good Questions -- How to Ask Questions -- Use Nonverbal Communication -- Cold Call -- Effectively Deal With Difficult Students -- How to Deal with Difficult Students -- Do It Again -- Take Breaks -- Break! -- Time to Lean, Time to Clean -- While Students Work . . . -- You Will Get Bored First -- You Will Bias for the Highest -- Surprise! It's a Big Class -- Surprise! It's a Small Class -- Enjoy the Good Times -- CHAPTER 7: How to Present Information -- Use Blue and Black Markers -- Tips for Effective Board Work -- Lectures Are Bulletproof -- Preparing Your Lecture -- Lecture Like a Champion -- Shorter Is Better -- Facilitate Discussions -- Tips for Facilitating a Good Discussion -- Use the Vocabulary of Your Field -- Modeling Is Powerful -- How to Model -- Use Solo, Partner, and Group Work Strategically -- Make the Most of Group Work -- Tips for Effective Group Work -- Tips for Effective Report Backs -- Incorporate Current Events -- Don't Correct Every Mistake -- Always Tell Students Where They Are -- CHAPTER 8: How to Develop Your Teacher Persona -- The Classroom Is not a Democracy -- Which Country Is Your Classroom? -- You Are the Leader in the Classroom -- Own the Room -- You Are not a Social Worker -- Disclose Thoughtfully -- When You Don't Know, Say "I Don't Know" -- Be in Control -- Be Spontaneous -- When You Get Upset, Check Your Expectations -- Don't Get Pissed off -- Sometimes, Get Pissed off -- One Teacher -- Be Disobedient -- CHAPTER 9: Growing as a Teacher -- Set Your Own Teacher Objectives -- Sample Teacher Reflection Questions -- Learning to Reflect Will Make You Your Own Best Teacher -- Most Students Don't Recognize Bad Teaching -- The Worst Teachers Think They're Amazing -- It's Hard to Improve.

Opportunities for Improvement -- You Are an Entrepreneur -- How to Entrepreneur -- For-Profit Schools Have a Lot to Teach Us -- Administrators Are People, Too -- Administrators Are Evil, Too -- Leave Your Job (and Get a Better One) -- It's a Setup! -- Get the Most from a Conference -- Before the Conference -- During the Conference -- After the Conference -- Contribute to Your Field -- Teach Where You Live -- Teach What You Love -- Have Amazing Instruction in Your Life -- Remember the Horrible Instruction in Your Life -- Read More Education Books -- Read Outside Your Field -- Develop a Network of Peers You Respect -- Discussed While Biking Home with Don and Barbara -- Make Meetings Productive -- Don't Go Back to School Until You Have to -- Take Advantage of Being Unemployed -- Everything I've Told You Is Wrong -- CHAPTER 10: The Future of Education -- We Need to Talk about Education -- What Is Education? -- What the Crisis in Education Is not -- Alienation In Education -- What Makes School Suck? -- Teachers Humanize Education -- How to Fix Education -- Teachers in a Learner-Centered World -- It's Time to Go on the Offense -- My Definition of "Education." -- Appendix: Teacher Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.