Eric P. Jensen

Read with a discussion group of teachers in my district. The guiding principle here is to take 100% responsibility for the learning of your students. Every problem we find in our classroom (poor motivation, retention, behavior, comprehension, etc.) is due to poor teaching on our part, nothing more.
This was difficult to accept, but since I'm not particularly confident in my teaching ability (half of my students perform poorly), I was willing to take it. There are many methods, strategies, and tips that will help us motivate our students to succeed, and they were applicable to elementary and middle school students (some even for high school, but fewer).

A quick and beneficial read for any teacher.
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New teachers losing their way? Getting bored? Thinking that their time-tested strategies no longer work with the groups of learners they have? Eric Jensen is a prominent speaker about the research-based practices all great teachers possess in reaching their students. He lists six characteristics of what he terms fierce teaching used as the acronymn: BE Fierce:
• BE –Body and emotional connections
• F – Feedback and error correction
• I – Input to output ratio
• E – Elaboration for depth
• R – Recall and memory management
• C – Content Coherence
• E – Environmental management
This is a book that a professional learningcommunitycould read in bits and pieces – everyone reading one of the chapters since they are fairly short and then spending 10-15 min. discussing the ideas presented and applying them to everyday teaching strategies. It would be a chance for the successful teachers to provide tips in a non-threatening atmosphere, and who knows, some troubled faculty just might hear and apply some of the tips It is worth a try and while the list seems a bit clouded by the terms used here, the common sense backed up by research will be a good review for anyone. Recommended as a chapter, thing, next chapter, think…… (meer)