Publication date:
06 June 2013Length of book:
150 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
226x151mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781475802283
Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor energy to recall their initiating dreams and desires. In this innovative workbook you’ll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher, and the rituals and routines that help or hurt. You’ll take time out to remember the ways that teaching blesses you. You’ll learn to confront the inner critic and push back against the voice that tells you to do more, more, more. You’ll discover the legacy you leave with your students. You’ll fall in love with teaching all over again.
Illustrated with 115 actual journal entries by 17 teachers in response to 65 well-crafted writing prompts, you’ll be held in a supportive international community as you rediscover yourself and your innate strengths. A facilitator’s guide featuring step-by-step lesson plans prepares you to offer this work as a writing group with peers.
Illustrated with 115 actual journal entries by 17 teachers in response to 65 well-crafted writing prompts, you’ll be held in a supportive international community as you rediscover yourself and your innate strengths. A facilitator’s guide featuring step-by-step lesson plans prepares you to offer this work as a writing group with peers.
Themes, blessings, praise, ritual, wander, flame, magic. Who wouldn’t love a guide that embraces so many positive ways to rediscovering our authentic teaching selves? The authors, along with the teachers who let us peek into their journals, give us permission to set the papers aside, put down the red pen, and turn off the voices. Then come the moments—the ones that brought us here, and the ones that keep us coming back. Through insightful prompts and snippets from teachers’ journals, we remember why we started this journey, recall where we have been along the way, and rethink the paths we imagine for ourselves and our students. When life becomes so hectic and routine that we forget who we are and how we’ve come to be, The Teacher’s Journal reels us back in, allows us to swim in our pasts, presents, and futures, and emerge anew. It’s an immediate sabbatical, and a gift of profound beauty.