Copilots, Duties, and Piña Coladas: How to Be a Great Teacher

By Anthony S. Colucci

Teachers, are you looking for another research-based textbook that was written by some scholar who works far from a real classroom? If thats what youre yearning for, put this book down and keep looking. Copilots, Duties, and Pia Coladas is a one of a kind, witty, and practical book about how to be a great teacher. As you read it, youll find yourself laughing, crying and perhaps doing both at the same time. Anthony S. Colucci skillfully weaves "tonguein cheek" humor with his experiences as a troubled student and a passionate teacher to motivate, invigorate and rejuvenate teachers!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 18, 2010
• ISBN: 9781477206669

Anthony S. Colucci

Anthony S. Colucci is a passionate and dedicated educator. He is a National Board Certified Teacher and has a Masters Degree in Education. His devotion to his students, as well as his innovative and creative lessons, have earned him numerous awards including a Governor's Award from the Florida Council on Economic Education, a Gold Star Unit from the Core Knowledge Foundation, and Cape Canaveral Air Force Association Teacher of the Year. Anthony currently coordinates and teaches the Gifted Student Program at four elementary schools. He resides in Florida with his wife and daughter. You can contact him at [e-mail].

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First published by AuthorHouse 12/14/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4490-3940-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-0666-9 (ebk)

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To all the great and not so great teachers that I had for making me who I am

Contents

Remember: Students Are Human Beings That Are Still Developing

Love Kids or Find a New Job

Have Fun!

Be a Professional

Take Care of Yourself

Grow

Have a Pina Colada Attitude

Do Your Duties

Don’t Teach Your Students Content, Teach Your Students How to Learn

Be a Good Copilot

Be The Change

Mr. Colucci,

I don’t know if you remember me, but you once gave me the Heimlich maneuver by spinning me around after I choked on a sports drink in eighth grade. I’m pretty sure I was the smallest eighth grader you’d ever seen. I was checking out the school’s website today and saw that you were still a teacher there. That’s awesome! It’s incredible to think there are kids just like me being taught similar things I was when I was there.

I hope you still have that model senate program. It helped a lot of us kids learn about current and future events and taught us how to express our views in an adult way. I remember on September 11 we all just sat around a radio and listened to the news.

I’m in my first year in the U.S. Coast Guard right now and living on a ship. I wanted to thank you for the positive impact you made in my life. You showed me that even in public school, teachers go out of their way to care about students. I know few teachers who seemed to care for what they taught as much as you.

Have a good one.

Joey

WELCOME!

A fter a decade of teaching, I have heard countless solutions to education’s ills. I enthusiastically continue to learn about these supposed strategies daily. Today, I read about the power of language and how, just by choosing the right words, you could transform your classroom into a class