Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom Improving Your Effectiveness as a Teacher

Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom offers both an alternative and a complement to standard professional development, instructional coaching and teacher evaluation. Author Anne Bonnycastle reveals 10 common blindspots that can be challenging for teachers, whether you are in year one or 20. She provides practical strategies to help you find your own blindspot and then shows how you can improve that area by incorporating a professional practice focus.

The book?s unique, no-frills, personalized approach will help you improve your classroom instruction, focusing on the effect that your teaching has on students. The research-supported strategies will help you increase your effectiveness, regardless of the supports available within your school.

Whether you have a mentor or coach guiding you or are using the book on your own, this book will be your trusty guide as you grow on your journey as an educator.

Part I Blindspots Introduction Chapter 1: Why You Need This Book Chapter 2: The Classic Ten Blindspots Part II Six Strategies to Help You Find Your Blindspot Chapter 3: Before You Start: Adopt a Feedback Mindset Chapter 4: Flip the Coin Chapter 5: Sit in Others' Classrooms Chapter 6: Forced Choice Chapter 7: Student Input Chapter 8: The Camera Doesn't Lie Chapter 9: Self-Reflection Part III You’ve Found Your Blindspot, So Now What? Chapter 10: What Can You Do About It? Chapter 11: Strategies for Addressing Your Professional Practice Focus Conclusion Appendices

Dr. Anne Bonnycastle has been a teacher, administrator, department head, and instructional coach in both public and independent schools in British Columbia since 1996. Professional development has been her career-long focus: attending it, delivering it, researching about it. This book culminates a decade of working to understand teacher development.

Anne has an MA in educational psychology and a Doctoral degree in Music Education and was a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award, 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholars’ Program.