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Keep Excitement in Your Career
Teachers Today
A Guide to Surviving Creatively
Mary Zabolio McGrath
From Corwin Press
 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, filled with real-life experiences and firsthand 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 wall as themselves. Teachers, administrators, staff-management professionals, and education faculty will all learn valuable tools for stress management and creative coping.
Continue being an effective educator -- but be sure to take care of yourself too! This book will help you do just that, and your students and you will share in the rewards.
Contents of the Book
1. Living with Stress Creatively
- A definition of Present-Day Educational Stress
- Burnout Connection
- Creating a Stress Profile
2. Taking Charge of Your Own Self-Care
- Human-Related Habits - Taking Charge of the Basics
- Health Enhancers
- Enhancers to Improve Job Function
- Working it Out - Ways to Improve Relational Skills
- Making Job-Related Changes
3. Building Bridges, Creating Cooperation
- Collegial Support
- Creating Your Own Network Administrator - Administrator Support
- Teacher - Administrator Support
- Creating a Supportive Work Environment
4. Tips for Personal Intellectual Development
- Obstacles to Intellectual Growth
- Ways to Grow Intellectually
- Passive Learning Opportunities
- Moving From Passive to Active Intellectual Activity
- Active Learning Opportunities
- Our Best Learning Opportunities
5. Attending to the Inner Life: Ways to Grow
- Attitude
- Affirmations
- Self-Talk
- Humor
- Keeping a Journal
- Creativity
- Spirituality
- Solitude
6. Creating Flexibility, Openness, and Adaptability
- Flexibility
- Openness
- Adaptability
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