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Our traditional "Great Teacher" teaches by telling, inspiring students through eloquent, passionate oration. For Donald Finkel this view is destructively narrow: it takes for granted that teachers teach, fundamentally and centrally, by telling students what they are supposed to know. In Teaching with Your Mouth Shut, Finkel proposes an alternative vision of teaching--one that is deeply democratic in its implications.

Each chapter in this book presents a case study, a story, or a sustained image of a teaching situation--a set of "circumstances" that produces significant learning in students. Each makes sense of the title of the book in a particular way. Each enriches its meaning by one increment. The idea of "teaching with your mouth shut" is explored, exemplified, and varied to such an extent that it ultimately specifies a comprehensible approach to teaching--along with a host of concrete teaching possibilities. In the end, not only will your notion of good teaching be transformed, but so too your sense of what may be signified by the word "teaching" itself.

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut is not intended as a manual for teachers; it aims to provoke reflection on the many ways teaching can be organized. The book engages its readers in a conversation about education. Thus, its purpose is not so much to reform education as it is to provoke fruitful dialogue about teaching and learning among people who have a stake in education.

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    English
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"This book makes me proud to be a colleague with Don Finkel . . . and brings more news about teaching and learning than most books on that topic I've read in the last decades."-Peter Elbow

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Donald Finkel lived with his family in Olympia, Washington, and taught at The Evergreen State College from 1976 until his death in September, 1999. He is coauthor, with William Ray Arney, of Educating for Freedom: The Paradox of Pedagogy (Rutgers University Press, 1995).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heinemann Educational Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 3 March 2000
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0867094699
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0867094695
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 295 g
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.22 x 22.86 cm
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  • Davin Ebanks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Teaching & Democracy
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2013
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    This book has been truly revolutionary for me. Finkel starts by explaining (somewhat) why "teaching as telling" is a less-than-effective method of "teaching". Then he gives very concrete (and extremely helpful) examples of other activities teachers can engage in with their students that allow them to provoke student interest and involvement. Almost all of these have to do with structuring the learning environment in such a way that students are more likely to take ownership of their education.

    Finkel then finishes with a deeper discussion of some of the deeper implications of teaching with your mouth shut and why the notion that you can actual pass ideas from one person to another is a misguided one. Borrowing from the thinker John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" he makes a compelling argument that "teaching" is something other than the transference of ideas. Rather, it is a provocation that induces critical inquiry on the part of the "student" and that this inquiry, this reliance on one's own critical facility (rather than some idealized authority) is in fact necessary for participation in the democratic process.

    I found this book to be thought provoking and insightful, regarding both the sorry state of "educating" as it's practiced now, and what I as a teacher can do on a day-to-day basis to address my practice for the better. Nowhere does Finkel set himself up as an "authority" that should simply be taken at face value; he argues convincingly throughout by engaging the reader to question standard teaching paradigms and conventions.

    If you're at all interested in teaching and learning---even if you're not a paid member of the academic community---this book is for you.
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  • Ellybones
    5.0 out of 5 stars Make Students Work to Learn
    Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2023
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    I had professor Don Finkel at Evergreen and his workshops were some of the best teaching activities if my college career. I employed these methods teaching management at Granite State College, receiving the Distinguished Faculty Award for innovative class design and student mentoring.

    Use Teaching With Your Mouth Shut to design activities that require students to do the developmental work. It’ll teach them how to learn in collaborative workshops. How to learn for life.
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  • Waverly Fitzgerald
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a smart book. I knew from the title that I ...
    Reviewed in the United States on 11 May 2016
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    What a smart book. I knew from the title that I would love this book because it describes my teaching style. Finkel gave me the explanation I needed to justify my approach and offered many intriguing suggestions for getting students learning. I think the most profound thing I took away form the book was the recognition that my job is not to teach (in other words, it's not about me as an expert delivering information). My job is to create circumstance in which students learn. This means they may never notice my contribution but I will be able to see the results.
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  • Anne Jenkins
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas for dedicated instructors
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 April 2013
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    This book has great ideas for instructors who are truly dedicated and invest in their teaching methods and student learning styles. However, this is not for the novice in the profession. I have been teaching for 40 years and student learning culture has changed rapidly. Digging for answers or conjuring up inquiry is not what students expect or want when college tuition is escalating.
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  • Lisa Meschutt
    3.0 out of 5 stars then this book can probably help you a great deal. If you teach science or math
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 July 2017
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    If you teach English Language Arts, Philosophy, or History, then this book can probably help you a great deal. If you teach science or math, especially if you have a state curriculum to follow and don't have the leisure of designing your own course, this book has virtually nothing for you. One might be able to use some of the background information (like realizing the difference between power and authority) when implementing methods found elsewhere or self-designed, but otherwise there is little practical information.
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