Teach from Your Best Self: A Teacher's Guide to Thriving in the Classroom

Jay Schroder's book teaches teachers how to take care of their most valuable resource—themselves—and rejuvenate themselves while maximizing student learning. It explains why the self that a teacher brings to the classroom is important and offers skills to sustain a best-self state in all situations. It also provides ways to avert a reactive state or recover from it and build a more durable, best self for the long term.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Teachers, this book is a valuable guide for taking care of education's most precious resource: you. Author Jay Schroder, founder of the popular Teach from Your Best Self Institute, explains why the version of ourselves that we bring to teaching matters and describes how we can rejuvenate ourselves while maximizing student learning. Part I explains why the self that a teacher brings to the classroom is important. Part II explores skills that will help us sustain a best-self state in all manner of situations. Part III delves into those moments when we are provoked beyond our limits and our hurtspots come sharply into view. It offers ways to avert a reactive state or recover from it. Lastly, Part IV provides simple approaches for building a more durable, best self for the long term—a best self with deepened capacity to respond rather than react in the pressurized conditions of teaching. With fresh ideas presented throughout, you'll learn how to prioritize your own well-being so you can continue to make a difference for your students.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032416878