Rachel Jones - Teacher Geek: Because lifes too short for worksheets
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What can you do with a pack of marshmallows and some tinfoil? Create innovative, engaging learning opportunities; if you embrace the teacher geek mentality. What was your best lesson like? Rachel Jones thinks that her best lessons have happened when shes been brave enough to wonder, What might happen if ...? and done something a bit different. That is what Teacher Geek is all about: making the most of the resources you have at your disposal, and shaking up your thinking about what will inspire, engage and motivate learners. A teacher geek will look to exploit all potential learning opportunities, and be comfortable with taking risks by working with resources from outside their subject area. You have nothing to lose by trying a few new ideas out in your classroom. What is more, a little teacher geek thinking can make lesson planning a whole lot easier. Here Rachel shows you how to blend edu-geeky analogue and digital teaching techniques, and offers suggestions on how to inspire your students, revitalise your practice, and gain the rapt attention of your class. Teacher Geek shows you how to turn your passion as an educator into real results in your classroom. It is all about celebrating a real love of teaching and learning. It doesnt matter whether you have access to the latest technology, or whatever else you have at your disposal, it is all about creativity, confidence and celebrating achievement. And lets face it there is more to life than worksheets. Suitable for all teachers.
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PRAISE FOR
TEACHER
GEEK
A thoroughly enjoyable read that prompts any teacher to trust themselves and challenge their students. Every chapter seeks to support the reader and breeds confidence in a profession that so often questions itself. Practical, informative, enjoyable; whats not to like?
Daniel Edwards, director of digital learning, Stephen Perse Foundation
Rachel Jones is one of the most respected teachers on Twitter and in the world of educational blogging. This book shows just why that respect is deserved: it is practical, grounded, warm and human. The book, in fact, is Rachel!
Rachel celebrates the teacher geek whose passion and enthusiasm for their subject, and for learning (both their own and others), motivates and inspires them. She shows how to create sparks of interest that light the fires of learning, sometimes through the use of ICT, sometimes by using what you can pick up in the charity or pound shop.
Rachels advice is to be brave, take risks and tweak and adapt resources (including our environment, images, sound and music) creatively so that they serve as a hook for learning. By being flexible and imaginative we can put a new spin on things, think differently and adopt a new perspective, while still being ourselves. This book will make a difference to teachers.
Jill Berry, education consultant, former head teacher
I love this book and I want to do everything that Rachel Jones describes. I want my graph theory class to build graphs out of marshmallows and BBQ skewers and well do that. Amidst all the pressures that teachers face, of marking and administration and everything else that we do, its easy to forget the fun we can and should have as teachers. Reading Rachels book reminded me of the fun of being a student and of the fun that I can have as a teacher. Within a short space of time, my copy will be dog eared and sticky-noted with lots of marginal notes describing the things that have worked for me and the things I want to try next.
Dr James W. Anderson, associate dean, University of Southampton
From vibrators to vibratos (yes, you read that right), Rachel takes the reader on a fascinating tour of her pedagogic world in this how-to guide with a difference. Be you an analogue geek or a digital geek teacher, theres plenty here for you to think about, try and learn to enhance your classroom practice. Although some of the ideas in the book are not for the faint-hearted or those teaching within a highly regimented school (get out while you still can), each chapter brings gifts for the beginner geek.
This is a permission-giving book whose core message is recapture your classroom. It wont be to everyones taste and nor should it be. But if youve ever discerned the inner desire to draw on desks or wondered wistfully what it would be like to write on windows, this is most definitely the book for you.
Keven Bartle, head teacher, Canons High School
This book is for my family, who had to put up with me being the worst teenager ever. This book is also for my boys, Finley and Frazer, who make every day an adventure. Finally, this book is for the boy, Matt, who makes me think a lot but smile more.
- 1. OLD FOR NEW:
beyond charity shop thinking - 2. ITS YOUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
make it mean something - 3. READING IMAGES:
what do pictures say? - 4. SOUND WAVES:
retune your ears - 5. MEND AND MAKE:
(or why you always need plastic cups, tinfoil and marshmallows in your classroom) - 6. SHARING LEARNING:
life is too short for worksheets - 7. WORDS:
play with them, have fun with them, master them - 8. DIGITISE, ENERGISE,
but for goodness sake stop calling yourself a 21st century practitioner
A few years ago I watched a teacher step into an anxiety dream. She was interviewing for a job at a school and had been asked to teach a sample lesson. I was spending the day with the principal and so joined him to observe the lesson. Her topic was the water cycle and she had prepped a few slides and a short video, I think, on her laptop to get things rolling. I say, I think because the projector and her laptop wouldnt sync or the bulb didnt work. I dont remember which, exactly, but the tech did as the tech sometimes does which is to say it did not work. So really, who knows what shed planned. But there she stood, as if in a bad dream in front of 30 or so 11-year-olds, not to mention the schools principal and a few fellow teachers, with 30 minutes in which to win a job and her lesson plan melting faster than butter in the sun.
But of course, she was a teacher and when it comes to crises, a teacher is used to that sort of thing. Hardly a day goes by when a teacher does not have to adapt what she is doing to the absurd, the froward, the unpredictable, the inspired, or the serendipitous. The mere non-functionality of a slide show was, frankly, just another day at work. She picked up a water bottle off the desk, crumpled a sheet of paper that was the cloud, obviously and proceeded to model the water cycle. I still dont know what was on that laptop of hers, but it couldnt have been much better than the impromptu demo and discussion she pulled off.
I thought of that teacher when I started reading this book because Rachel Jones delights in the problem-solving aspects of the classroom. Problem solving is one of the most developed and least acknowledged skills of the typical teacher and its a skill Rachel embraces, celebrates even. But Rachel is not a typical teacher. She is a teacher who likes to relish the possibilities. As we say of some of our most accomplished teachers, the ones who seem to rise above when things look trickiest, she loves trouble. She wants to open your eyes to the world of solutions and opportunities that exist in the humble settings of your classroom, achieved by your unexpected decision to write on the floor, say. Or to redesign your discussion. To plan a slide show. Or to ditch the slide show and make a cloud out of a piece of paper. In her vison, and more importantly in this book, the possibilities are endless.
And beyond the myriad ideas she proposes, maybe the most valuable thing is the irrepressible sense of optimism that pervades her book. And ethos of can-do. Whether or not every solution she proposes is for you, the practice of looking at problems as opportunities for creative solutions is rather exhilarating, and that is the killer app from this book. If you see it a certain way, problem solving is one of the best parts of the job. When you start to think that way you will be a teacher geek and there will be nothing you cannot conquer.
Doug Lemov, managing director, Uncommon Schools, author of Teach Like a Champion 2.0, Practice Perfect and Reading Reconsidered
I would like to thank everyone at Crown House Publishing and Independent Thinking. You all rock a lot. I would also like to thank my school, King Edward VI in Southampton, for being supportive and encouraging. I would not have been able to write this book without the encouragement of my #nurture team and my friends, so thank you and massive love to all. In particular, @ChocoTzar has had the patience of a saint helping me. Thank you also to all my students, past and present, for shaping how I think and how I teach it has been a real privilege to work with you all.
The last thing you need is someone else telling you that what you do in your classroom isnt right, isnt good enough, or isnt what Ofsted want. You dont need me to tell you that your lesson lacks whizz or va va voom. I know what it feels like to rush from one end of a school to the other for a lesson mysteriously timetabled in a former cupboard where the atmosphere is anything less than inspiring. I know what it feels like to have a head of department (or member of senior management) who cant see beyond the data or the most recent educational trend.
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