Building and sustaining a teaching career : strategies for professional experience, wellbeing and mindful practice / Narelle Lemon and Sharon McDonough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemon, Narelle, author.

McDonough, Sharon, author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Vocational guidance.

Teaching.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

xii, 200 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Building mindful resources throughout a teaching career

Before we begin: a note on terminology

Becoming a teacher: the role of self-efficacy and coping strategies

Learning to become a teacher in contemporary contexts

Mindfulness in the school curriculum

Reading and navigating this book

Summary

Recommended reading

SECTION 1 Mindfulness and its place in being a teacher

1. What is mindfulness?

Looking after your wellbeing while engaging with this text

Beginning to think about mindfulness

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness and awareness

Mindfulness and curiosity

Mindfulness and being non-judgemental

Mindfulness and being present

Self-compassion and self-care

2. Becoming and being a mindful teacher

Resilience in teachers and teaching

Coping strategies for sustaining a teaching career

Being mindful as a teacher

Wellbeing and flourishing

SECTION 2 Developing mindful practices as a teacher

3. Developing the confidence to teach: communicating and working with others

Confidence to grow as a teacher: having self-compassion

Confidence and presence as a teacher

Confidence to enter a school or early childhood centre

Confidence to talk to a mentor teacher

Confidence to share reflections

The classroom is so different to back home

Additional resources

4. Developing your skills as a teacher: learning in school and university contexts

The role of professional experience in initial teacher education

How do you move from being a novice to a competent practitioner?

Group work

What if the students don't listen to me?

Developing your voice as a teacher

Using verbal and visual cues in the classroom

Working with digital tools

Working in online spaces to learn or teach

Participating in online discussion boards as a teacher and learner

Social media for learning

5. Developing as a teacher: learning from professional experience

The role of professional experience in learning to become a teacher

Learning about school contexts during professional experience

Being a part of the staff room and school community

Learning from mentors who inspire

Fears and concerns about professional experience

Working professionally with staff and peers

Getting to know the students

Being flexible in the classroom

Is a career in teaching for me?

Working productively with your mentor teacher and dilemmas

6. Learning to teach: identifying and addressing stressors

What challenges do pre-service and early career teachers face?

Dealing with challenges proactively

Developing time-management skills to organise yourself

Sitting with vulnerability: receiving and giving feedback

Developing skills in self-care

Being a mature-age student

Being a partner, parent or carer

Managing expectations

Managing your study load

Working with an inner critic: strategies for dealing with perfectionism

7. Organising and caring for yourself as a teacher

Caring for yourself as a teacher

Getting into the flow of things

Responding to emotions with awareness

Knowing the curriculum and responding to change

Managing deadlines and communicating effectively

Juggling study, work and life

Planning and meeting the teaching standards

Transition into the profession and learning from professional experience

Developing personal skills and strategies to inform your ongoing practice

Using reflection to guide your future practice and direction as a teacher

Final thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108724722

1108724728

OCLC:

1137814942

Publisher Number:

99988025953