Teachers Today: A Guide to Surviving Creatively

By Mary Zabolio McGrath

Book Overview

You′re already a good teacher, and your students are learning and growing. But what about you? Are you achieving your full potential as an educator? Teachers Today, full of real-life experiences and first-hand knowledge, gives you the resources you need to grow and thrive in your classroom and in your career. McGrath combines hard-earned personal experience with the research of other experts to create this timely guidebook. Designed for helping, not preaching, this book shows you methods for creating caring schools and supportive faculty activities to let education professionals assist each other as well as themselves. Teachers, administrators, staff-management professionals, and education faculty will all learn valuable tools for stress management and creative coping. You′ll find expert advice on such matters as: how you can live with creatively with stress, not just ignore it; how to take charge of your own self-care; what to do to stimulate your personal growth; how to build bridges and create cooperation in your work life; and how to gather emotional and intellectual support from co-workers. Continue being an effective educator--be sure to take care of yourself first This book will help you do just that, and your students and you will share in the rewards.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803962290
• ISBN13: 9780803962293
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"