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Book SynopsisThis book is based on the recognition that students learn best, and learn the most, when they witness their teachers modeling the characteristics they profess to value in their classrooms; in other words, when they see their teachers practice what they preach.
If teachers are going to hold themselves true to this adage, then not only do they have a responsibility to practice what they preach, but they must also be deliberate about what they preach in the first place. Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability and Personal Values explores how teachers can preach the values that matter most in the classroom and provides practical strategies for how to put those values into practice. Each chapter focuses on a different value that is worthy of investing time and energy into as an educator, and worthy of being preached and practiced through integrating them into curriculum outcomes lessons. Teachers who put into practice the values that they preach reap the rewards of respec
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In the overcomplicated world we find ourselves teaching in now, the ideas presented in Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability andPersonal Values, take us back to the basics of education. This masterpiece reminds us that teaching others to give is not a right, but rather a responsibility often overlooked and taken for granted by today’s educators. Readers are given permission to take the time to examine the “why” behind their current practices and not to be afraid to try something new or rather “old school”.
-- Tina Edwards, educator and President of the Saskatchewan Association of School Council Advisors
This book is a practical blueprint to creating a better world through the vocation of teaching and serving others.
-- Sam Demma, youth motivational speaker and creator of the “High Performing Educator” podcast
Table of ContentsDedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: For they preach, but they do not practice
Chapter 1: Train up a child
Chapter 2: Fall and rise again
Chapter 3: Teach yourself
Chapter 4: Sharpen each other
Chapter 5: Let nature teach you
Chapter 6: Turning suffering to hope
Chapter 7: Teach you again
Chapter 8: A model of good works
Chapter 9: Honor everyone
Chapter 10: For the rights of all
Chapter 11: Love your neighbor
Chapter 12: When we stumble
Chapter 13: Faith, hope, and love
Final Exam
Bibliography
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