How the best teachers avoid the 20 most common teaching mistakes

Louisiana-based educational author and speaker Breaux is a former curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher; she now trains and supports new teachers, trains assessors for the Louisiana Dept. of Education, and is an international presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. The 20 chapters of her text offer new and experienced teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers a look at 20 common teaching mistakes and how the best teachers avoid and correct them in order to take charge of themselves and their classrooms to create a calm, caring, structured learning environment. A sampling of topics: assuming students already know, engaging in power struggles, allowing for unstructured time, failing to organize, lowering expectations, neglecting priorities, being inconsistent, delaying feedback, and refusing to acknowledge mistakes. No subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).