#18 Teachers These Days (TyC Book Study)

Co-author Laurie MacIntosh and her husband Cody went on a ten-month giving spree.  While you may not have hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ellen to give away, can you see yourself going on a giving spree?  What can you give?  How will you do it?  List all the details!

 “Perception is a powerful tool. Students will learn more from you than opening a book.”  What do you hope your students are learning from you?  (Your answer should not contain content-related examples such as, ‘I’m a math teacher so I hope my students are learning math from me.’) What do your students learn by watching you?  What did you learn simply by observing some of your own teachers, both the good and the bad?

 Who is your ‘Colleen’? Explain.

How can you make sure every single one of your students feels ‘seen’?  How can you make sure your colleagues feel ‘seen’?  Who else needs you to see them just as they are?

 We all have an instructional toolkit, but what is in your connection toolkit?

 How can you teach empathy?