Jacquie Turnbull

Personal Development for Teachers (eBook, ePUB)

9 steps to success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jacquie Turnbull's practical and thoughtful handbook guides teachers through the 9 strategies that will help them to achieve professional effectiveness.

This book is a guide to personal development in the teaching profession. In order to negotiate a fast-changing world, teachers need to be creative, able to respond flexibly to new situations ans be adept at finding innovative solutions to difficult problems; and they need to be able to teach these skills to their students. This book encourages teachers to become actively involved in their professional development and to strive to become model learners, able to inspire learning in others.

This new edition has an increased emphasis on helping teachers to understand themselves as learners, additional reflective exercises to enhance continuous professional development and a wealth of new case studies from Jacquie Turnbull's extensive experience. The strategies include taking action on stress, creating rapport and influencing leadership behaviours. This inspirational book will also encourage teachers to look beyond the classroom and develop the skills and attitudes to be leaders of learning in the wider community. Well-written and accessible, this book makes essential reading for ambitious teachers everywhere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441136749
• Artikelnr.: 39489388

Autorenporträt

Jacquie
Turnbull has been a secondary teacher, an HE lecturer and a trainer
specialising in improving teachers' personal and professional effectiveness. She
has been Deputy Chair of the General Teaching Council (Wales) and Chair of an
FE College in the UK. She is currently Director of a company specialising
in profiling to improve professional effectiveness. Jacquie also received an
MBE in 2011 for her work in education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface \ Introduction - What this Book is About and How to Use It \ Part 1
- Managing Yourself \ Habit 1. Thinking for Yourself \ Habit 2. Learning
for Life \ Habit 3. Taking Action on Stress \ Habit 4. Taking your Time \
Part 2 - Engaging with Others \ Habit 5. Creating Rapport \ Habit 6.
Attentive Listening \ Habit 7. Influencing Behaviours \ Part 3 - Spreading
the Influence \ Habit 8. Infuencing Leadership Behaviours \ Habit 9.
Extending the Influence \ Conclusion \ Appendix 1\ Appendix 2 \ Appendix 3\
Bibliography \ Further Reading \ Index