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Fred Jones Tools for Teaching

Fredric H. Jones, Patrick Jones, Jo Lynn, and Fred Jones

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I read Tools for Teaching by Fred Jones because I got this job, my very first teaching job with my own classroom, and I had 35 kids coming in that were going to be freshmen repeating freshman English, and I was of course terrified. The book is actually aimed at teachers to set things so that your students will have fun but also really respect you and obey the rules and respect each other and set up an atmosphere that really can work. I really can't believe how thankful I am that I've had it as a teacher. There's a lot of practical advice, such as how you should arrange the furniture in your room so that you can get to every kid within a certain amount of steps, down to how you should turn your head if there's a distraction in the room. They talk about the regal six point, six second turn where you know you turn your head, and then you turn your shoulders, and then you turn your body, and you slowly -- and you have to be careful about where you point your feet because your feet show where your commitment is. I've tried it. It felt ridiculous doing it, but it really works. It goes kind of slowly, and some of the things are kind of, you know, instincts or you would think most people would kind of have an idea of those things, but actually I read those parts, too, and found that often the parts that seem like they should be just you know common knowledge, they turned out to have some interesting little side parts that were really important and changed the whole point. I would recommend this book to not just teachers. I would recommend it to parents who want to use these strategies for you know, keeping good discipline with their kids. I would give it about - I think I'd give it five stars out of five.