Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career: Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice

ISBN-13: 9781108724722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Narelle Suzanne Lemon; Sharon McDonough

Opis

This text introduces pre-service teachers to the coping strategies, formal and informal practices, time management and organisation skills, and positive psychology critical to self-care as they are undertaking the professional experience component of their initial teacher education degrees.

Spis treści

Introduction. Building mindful resources as a pre-service teacher. Section 1. Mindfulness and its place in being a teacher: 1. What is mindfulness?; 2. Becoming and being a mindful teacher. Section 2. Developing mindful practices as a teacher: 3. Developing the confidence to teach: Communicating and working with others; 4. Developing your skills as a teacher: Learning in school and in university contexts; 5. Developing as a teacher: Learning from professional experience; 6. Learning to teach: identifying and addressing stressors; 7. Organising and caring for yourself as a teacher; Conclusion. Putting your best foot forward.