For any book listed on Amazon.com, there are two magic words:

LOOK INSIDE!

Recently, Amazon’s preview feature appeared on the listing for MY book – Teaching Is for Superheroes!

The official release for Teaching Is for Superheroes! is still a few weeks away. But until then, you can take a SNEAK PEEK INSIDE the book!

Look for AMAZING things like Additional Praise! Table of Contents! Copyright Protections! And a preview of completely original (and creative, I might add) interior artwork melding superheroes and teachers, courtesy of Kevin Yancey himself.

We’ve talked before (HERE and HERE) about using classroom TEASERS (not Spoilers) as a way to ENGAGE and MOTIVATE students. These approaches can fit a range of instructional settings.

No matter where they fall, such strategies often include a preview, or “sneak peak,” fostering further learning ahead. They work much in the same way as Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature.

Speaking of “Looking Inside,” one of the BEST educational books out there (11 editions and counting!) is Looking in Classrooms. You can find older editions for pretty cheap, and the newest is available here on Amazon (of course), with its own “Look Inside” (of course).

Check out this book, and you’ll see chapters full of Important School Stuff like Motivation, Assessment, Management (two parts, natch), and my favorite, “Classrooms are Complex.”

Of course, if you are more of a “bottom line” sort of person, you can just skip ahead to the end of this preview and skim the Index.

You can do that for either book. And if you check out MY book’s index, you’ll see everything from “The ABCs of Classroom Management (Kovarik), 80″ (one of the first items) all the way to the very last item, “Zipper, checking, 42.”

If THAT doesn’t get you motivated to read more, I don’t know what will.

Maybe “Mullet of Steel, 49.”

Who wants to look inside that?