Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice
240
Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice
240Paperback
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
Overview
Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice is chock-full of tools and strategies to show teachers, especially those new to the profession, how to stretch and innovate in their teaching. Using the metaphor of yoga—with its focus on process and practice—the authors take teachers on a journey of self-reflection and assessment, leading them through three stages: Breathe, Stretch and Meditate.
The book covers such topics as developing a sense of self-awareness to achieve excellence and the importance of maintaining balance and persevering in your practice.
This book features:
- The unique look and feel of a journal, with space to write and reflect on ideas as you read.
- A self-assessment quiz so you can evaluate your mindset in terms of technology use and innovation.
- Ideas for using tools available in your “edtech toolbox” to improve your teaching practice.
- Highlights of teachers’ and students’ voices through project examples so you can learn from various perspectives.
- Practical activities aligned to ISTE Standards for Educators and the ISTE Standards for Students.
As the authors state, “Only through interacting with content, making mistakes and trying new things can we truly become aware of what there is to learn.”
Audience: K-12 educators
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781564847485 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | International Society for Technology in Education |
| Publication date: | 01/13/2019 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Fanny Passeport is an education consultant/founder of No Borders Learning and an education development officer at ErasmusX, Erasmus UniversityRotterdam. She received her degree in ethnoecology in 2009 and carried out her field work in the Indian Himalayas. After teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in France, she moved to India to teach in international schools. In 2014, she entered the edtech sphere upon becoming a Google Certified Teacher. She received the ISTE Edtech Coach PLN award in 2016, was named an ISTE Emerging Leader in 2016 and earned the ISTE Outstanding Young Educator Award in 2017. Passeport blogs about the impact and purpose of edtech at noborderslearning.com.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Introducing Edtech Yoga 2
How Our Process Can Help You 3
Book Organization 4
How to Use This Book 6
Part 1 Breathe
Chapter 1 Envision What Might Be 21
Understanding and Designing Your Emerging "You" 22
Being Present Is Crucial 26
Finding Your Edtech "Om" 27
Rethinking the "Tech" in Edtech 29
Embracing Edtech Stewardship 30
Challenges for Learning 31
Visible Thinking: A Routine 35
Finding Your Big WHY and Setting Up Your Goals 38
Meeting Your Emerging Self 42
Chapter 2 Put Your Vision into Action 45
A Postconstructivist Approach 45
Embracing the Digital Age 49
Finding the Courage to Be Your Emerging "You" 50
Doing More with Less 59
Building Confidence 62
Understanding and Developing Awareness 62
Chapter 3 Share Your Vision 65
You Are Not Alone 65
Being a "Glocal" Educator 66
Who Am I in Relation to the Whole? 67
Forming and Shaping Your Network 70
Part 2 Stretch
Chapter 4 Tools inside the Edtech Box 85
How to Make Learning Tangible 86
Selecting Resources for Your Toolbox 87
Edtech Tools to Enrich Your Practice 88
Activities That Combine Student Standards 114
Edtech Integration Tips and Tricks 119
Chapter 5 Tinkering, Failure, and Overcoming Fear 123
The Tinkering Mindset 124
Thinking Outside the Box 124
Edtech Integration in Action 125
The Importance of Failure 132
Making Fear Your Friend 134
Chapter 6 Caution: Don't Overstretch 139
How Much is Too Much? 139
Exploring Minimalism 140
Balance-Less Is More 140
Taking Care of Yourself 143
Focusing On the Journey, Not Just the Destination 144
Part 3 Meditate
Chapter 7 Self-Reflection 155
Are You Ready to Change? 155
Forms of Self-Reflection 158
Reflecting with Colleagues and Others 161
Chapter 8 Meaningful Feedback 169
Prior Experience with Feedback 169
Providing Feedback to Others 173
Different Forms of Feedback 174
Receiving Feedback 179
Chapter 9 Sharing Our Journey with Others 185
Conferences: Learning from Others 186
Conferences: Presenting and Building a Network 187
Using Social Media to Connect 190
Publishing and Sharing Online 194
Conclusion 199
Appreciate Growth and Learning 199
Cyclical Growth 200
What Does It Mean to Be Flexible? 200
Farewell 202
Appendix A Quiz Scoring and Personality-Profile Inclination(s) 209
Stiff/Preflexible 211
Understretched 212
Flexible 213
Overstretched 214
Appendix B Glocal Project Examples 215
Appendix C Digital-Citizen Lesson Plans 217
References 218
Index 222