Wayside Teaching: Connecting With Students to Support Learning

This practical, research-based guide illustrates how wayside teaching—the informal curriculum, implicit instruction, and mentoring that happens in sometimes unintentional ways—can be intentionally practiced across grade levels to enhance learning and boost student outcomes.Through a framework focused on attitudes, approaches, and actions, and using vignettes that illuminate wayside teaching in action, Sara Davis Powell demonstrates how reaching out to students in formal and informal situations helps create a culture of belonging and safety that strengthens a student’s self-image, confidence, resiliency, and cogn

An excellent handbook about mentoring and informal curriculum Sara Davis Powell's WAYSIDE TEACHING: CONNECTING WITH STUDENTS TO SUPPORT LEARNING provides an excellent handbook about mentoring and informal curriculum. Strategies for formal and informal settings include self-assessments and examples for all levels of school operations to help educators explore the link between productive teaching and self-knowledge.

She is also a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences, where her enthusiasm for teaching and students has proven contagious.Powell’s PhD in educational administration, supervision, and curriculum development is from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is an advocate of active student engagement, emphasizing a balance of theory and developmentally responsive and academically rigorous pract

It touched my soul. This book empowers teachers to complete what is missing in their work.---Jude A. By using studies proving the power of wayside teaching, Powell has freed teachers to create meaningful relationships with students that will not only inspire them to greater academic achievement, but help them become emotionally healthy and resilient adults.---Jennifer Y. It touched my soul."--Patricia Bowman, Instructional Consultant (11/09/2009)-At last! A book that pushes past the idea that students should be test-taking machines by emphasizing relationship building and providing practical advice to teachers.---Kristie Betts Letter, English Teacher (10/23/2009)-It was refreshing to read about what I truly believe in and work at every year in my classroom.---Sandi Phair, Second-Grade Teacher (10/23/2009)-A topic whose time has come and is perhaps long overdue. The book defines the concept and demonstrates how teachers can implement this tangential