Tag: Teacher

Free Download The First-Year Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day, 5th Edition by Julia G. Thompson, Michelle Cummings
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1394225539 | True EPUB | 512 pages | 1.6 MB
The quick, comprehensive, and accessible guide that new educators need to make it through the first year and thrive in the profession.

Free Download Ying Ma, "The Ethics of Becoming a Good Teacher "
English | ISBN: 1032456957 | 2023 | 146 pages | EPUB | 519 KB
This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach. The book creates a dialogue between ancient ideas and the author’s lived experiences as a teacher in cross-cultural landscapes today to ruminate on the important themes of educational purpose, teacher excellence, teacher-student relationships, and teaching skill. It asks fundamental educational questions including "Why Do We Educate? Eudaimonia and Dao"; "What Do We Educate? Phronesis, Philia and Ren"; and "How Do We Educate? Techne and Liuyi". Moving beyond the dominant epistemological concerns such as how to teach more effectively to help students gain better marks in schools, it constitutes an ethical inquiry that illuminates the values, purposes, concerns, and hopes that animate genuinely educational work. Using a comparative approach to wisdom traditions from both the East and the West, it addresses parochialism and challenges Eurocentric research paradigms. Embedded in the messy ground of teaching in intergenerational and cross-cultural narratives, the author’s own experiences as a student/teacher/daughter of a teacher/mother of a student crucially unpacks and concretizes ancient concepts and reactivates them in concrete situations. A sense of a whole without completeness, a conception of the good without closure, and an aspiration without achievement continue to haunt the search for an ultimate answer to the question "what counts as a good teacher?". It will appeal to scholars, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in narrative inquiry and educational research, as well as those in the field of curriculum studies and the philosophy of education.

Free Download The Ethics of Becoming a Good Teacher: In Conversation with Aristotle and Confucius
by Ying Ma
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032456957 | 146 Pages | True PDF | 7 MB

Free Download Brad Johnson, "Thank You, Teacher: 100 Uplifting and Affirming Letters from Your Fellow Educators"
English | ISBN: 1032068299 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 380 KB + 7 MB
Thank you, teacher, for making a difference! This uplifting book by motivational speakers Brad Johnson and Hal Bowman provides daily encouragement to keep you feeling inspired on your educational journey. It features 100 letters, written by teachers across the country and addressed to YOU. The letters highlight topics such as celebrating small successes, bringing out the best in your students, and knowing your worth. The book is perfect for teachers of all grade levels, and for principals to buy their teachers for schoolwide morale. Read one letter each morning to kick off your day, or use them to launch staff meetings or PD days. The comforting, affirming advice will remind you why you’ve chosen this profession, that you’re not alone, that you can get through your toughest days, and that you’re having a big impact!

Free Download Claire Rachel Maghtas, "TEACHER You Are Enough and More: A Guide to Uplift Educators"
English | ISBN: 1683508998 | 2018 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
TEACHER You Are Enough and More supports and uplifts educators in the demanding world of education, including strategies, exercises, and tools that align teachers’ spirits with God to stay at peace while teaching. Educators Claire Rachel Maghtas and Karen Jean Epps’ intention is to energize other educators and give them tools for handling stress and persevering through the difficult times. This inspirational guide includes invigorating verses from the Bible along with personal testimonies to help teachers cope. Teachers will learn strategies to stay in balance while enhancing students’ achievements and well-being. Finally, Claire and Karen provide phrases of confirmations, gratitude statements, and a space for journaling to help each teacher personalize their journey and achieve peace.

Free Download Matthew Holt, "Sexual Orientation Equality in Schools: Teacher Advocacy and Action Research "
English | ISBN: 3030651428 | 2021 | 249 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools. Examining this issue through the lens of qualitative emancipatory action research, a group of Australian teachers embarked on a journey of teacher advocacy. Critical theory has long highlighted teachers as key players in either challenging dominant social narratives, or else perpetuating oppressive systems of power through traditional forms of education. Despite this important role, the life stories of teachers, which contributed to the development of their beliefs and behaviours about sexual orientation are rarely considered in the development of anti-discriminatory policy, designing the curriculum and most importantly, in teacher training. This book suggests and frames a model for advocacy, whereby teachers engage with their personal beliefs about sexual orientation, with their role as a teacher, and commit to advocacy through action by promoting student safety, challenging heteronormative narratives and role modelling compassionate behaviours in their school environments.

Free Download Robyn T. Brandenburg, "Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice"
English | 2008 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 1402081952, 9048178029 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice is the outcome of the author’s systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the author’s pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using self-study as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains "unsaid"; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching.

Free Download D.R. Lavoie, W.M. Roth, "Models of Science Teacher Preparation: Theory into Practice"
English | 2002 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 9048157552, 0792371291 | PDF | 1,4 mb
1 Wolff Michael Roth & Derrick R. Lavoie² 1 2 University of Victoria, Virtual Institute for Learning Resources The current reform in science education requires a substantive change in how science is taught. Implicit in this reform is an equally substantive change in professional devel- ment practices at all levels. (NRC, 1996,p. 56) In a continuously changing society, it is not surprising that education also undergoes continuous change. Science education is no exception, and perhaps changes are more rapid given the daily construction of new scientific knowledge. In such a c- mate of continuous change, the preparation of science teachers has to follow suit in order to be appropriate to the reforms that national organizations encourage. H- ever, whereas science teaching reform movements spawned recommendations of what teachers should know and be able to do in order for their students to concep- alize and process science (NSTA, 1997), they provide little guidance in terms of – the-classroom concrete implementation. Thus, while national science education organizations continue to refine their positions about teacher education, there is no mechanism for translating these positions and statements into science education courses that can improve the preparation and quality of p- service science teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. (Yager & Penick, 1990. p. 670) It is therefore not surprising that there are voices that describe teacher prepa- tion as unsuccessful and as unresponsive to reform efforts (Schnur & Golby, 1995).

Free Download Jennifer L. Hindman, "Effective Teacher Interviews: How do I hire good teachers? "
English | ISBN: 1416619941 | 2014 | 56 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1455 KB + 2 MB
Teacher quality is the school-related factor that most affects student learning, so selecting the best candidate for open teaching positions has enormous implications. In Effective Teacher Interviews, Jennifer L. Hindman provides practical advice on how to conduct hiring interviews that reliably predict a teacher’s success, including guidance on applying research to the interview process; developing meaningful, legal interview questions; assembling and training an interview team; matching candidates’ skills to your schools’ needs; and using the best interview strategies. With these tips on refocusing the interview process, you’ll be better prepared to select and hire the teachers who will make a positive difference for your students and your school.

Free Download Doctor, Teacher, Terrorist: The Life and Legacy of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
by Sajjan M. Gohel
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197665365 | 540 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 28/12.4 MB