The Teacher's Journal

A Workbook for Self -Discovery

By (author) Kathleen Adams, Marise Barreiro

Not available to order

Publication date:

06 June 2013

Length of book:

140 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781475802290

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.
The United States education system is in the process of yet another shift in paradigms, causing more frustration for teachers already burned out or disillusioned with a career entered into with passion, only to discover long days filled with politics, teaching to the tests, and heartbreaking stories that fill the lives of their students....Kathleen Adams LPC, PTR, Director of the Center for Journal Therapy and Marise Barreiro, Gestalt therapist and former English teacher, recognized the void often felt in the teaching profession and joined forces in an international collaboration to write The Teacher’s Journal, a Workbook for Self-Discovery. The expressive writing series is designed for individuals or for a workshop setting....I highly recommend that school districts adopt The Teacher’s Journal as curriculum for professional development and in-service days for their educators. I sincerely believe that they will see a renewed spirit in their staff. Each year, my school has professional development days on which staff members offer courses in their fields of expertise to their peers. I am excited at the prospect of sharing The Teacher’s Journal with my colleagues next year.