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Teaching Class Clowns (And What They Can Teach Us)
- William Watson Purkey - North Carolina Center for Invitational Education, Greensboro, NC
Foreword by Sally Butzin
May 2006 | 152 pages | Corwin
Every teacher knows who the class clown(s) are, as does every assistant principal, guidance counselor, and administrator in the school building. Reaching and teaching class clowns, however, requires instructional strategies rarely, if ever, taught in college or in-service workshops.
Until now! Author William Watson Purkey offers readers this lively, informative, and concise guide to teaching class clowns. Whether teaching elementary, middle school, or high school grades, every teacher will find something of value here to help these gifted but at-risk learners find the right way to succeed in school and in life.
Foreword by Sally Butzin
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Appreciating Class Clowns
2. Understanding Class Clowns.
3. Investing
4. Asserting
5. Relating
6. Coping
Bibliography
Index
I wanted to look at this book because it could have been about me. I use it as a suggested reading in all the teaching and education classes because it lends important insight into the character of this type student
Other, Excelsior College
December 6, 2010