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Teachers as Classroom Coaches: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areasreviewed by Dan Carrell - March 01, 2007 Title: Teachers as Classroom Coaches: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas Author(s): Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA ISBN: 1416604111 , Pages: 190, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com Given its title, the introduction to Teachers as Classroom Coaches: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas starts just where I had assumed it would: with an anecdote about sports, athletes, and coaches. But the introduction quickly shifts from athletic coaching to corporate coaching. This shift sets the tone for the rest of the book as it consistently describes and references a coaching style that is clearly geared not for athletics, but for the corporate world. This tone in itself is not problematic, but the suggestion in the beginning of the bookthat the type of coaching in this guide for classroom teachers is modeled on athletic coachingis quite misleading. Although teachers can coach academic and fine arts teams, classroom teachers who coach tend to coach athletes. Consequently, those teachers who choose to read this book are likely trying to figure out how to transfer their successful athletic coaching style... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Dan Carrell
Cornell College E-mail Author DAN CARRELL is Director of Student Teaching at
Cornell College.
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