Heart! - Timothy D Kanold - Bog

Support Your Passion for Your Profession and Become a More Effective EducatorThis inspiring book presents the concept of a heartprint-the distinctive impression that an educator's heart leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your self-efficacy, career, and professional development. For school leaders and administrators, discover your impact on staff, students, and school culture as you progress in your career and gain perspective on creating sustainable change.The author writes in a conversational manner as he offers his own anecdotes and reflections on being a professional teacher and leader to help readers uncover their professional impact, increase personal teaching efficacy, and foster productive, heart-centered classrooms and schools.Discover Your Answer to the Question "Why Teach" and Advance Your Career in Education: Examine five unique HEART aspects of your professional life: Happiness, Engagement, Alliances, Risk, and Thought.Reflect on your journey and the personal and professional qualities of the teacher or leader you want to be.Discover your distinctive heartprint on your students and colleagues, and decide what the qualities of a good teacher or leader are for you.Gain personal development plan ideas and inspirational insights for your work life from Dr. Kanold as well as dozens of thought leaders and researchers inside and outside of the educational profession.Connect your professional life to each chapter and embed your personal and professional story into the book.Reconnect to the emotion, passion, energy, growth, and collaborative intimacy expected when joining the teaching profession.Use the book as part of professional development for teachers in a group book study.Build collective teacher efficacy and academic optimism by using the resource as a book study for professional development.